Company

Sure Torque develops and produces closure torque testers with strain gauge load cell technic for the packaging industry since 1984.

Since the very beginning Sure Torque has been a trend setter in it’s industy: almost all the sophisticated test features in closure torque testing were first lauched by Sure Torque.

Sure Torque was founded by Mr. Géza E. Bánkuty in 1984. Mr. Bánkuty was born in Hungary in 1926. He was a several-time Hungarian motorcycle champion until 1956. Due to his active participation in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, he had to emigrate after the revolution was suppressed, and he could not return to his home country until 1988.

After immigrating to the United States, he completed his studies and became a packaging professional. In addition to his business success, he remained very active in the civic life of the Hungarian community.

His first company was New England Machinery, a leader in the development and production of unscrambling machines. He founded Sure Torque, Inc. in 1984 for the development and production of fully automatic, high-tech closure torque testers.

Sure Torque Europe was founded in 2004 in Hungary by Mr. Bánkuty and his partner, Zsolt Magyary-Kossa, who is the general manager of the company. Sure Torque Europe’s main goal is to carry on Mr. Bánkuty’s spirit of innovation. The success of our expanded product range is proof of this.

Over the years, Mr. Bánkuty withdrew from all his companies, lastly from Sure Torque Europe in 2013.

The idea of the SmartLoadCell also came from the closure troque testing, but we immediately realised that this technology may bring benefits in a much wider application area. For this reason we decided to maintain the SmartLoadCell products as an independent brand besides Sure Torque.  

Today, hundreds of Sure Torque torque testers are in operation worldwide across various industries. Many major cap manufacturers, beverage companies, and pharmaceutical companies use Sure Torque automatic torque testers, including, among others:

Packaging industry
Alcoa CSI (CSS)
Alpla
Arol
Bericap
Berry Bender
Capmatic
Corvaglia
Crown Cork
Guala
Krones
Obrist
Pelliconi
Procap
United Caps
Universal Closures
Zalkin (Promach

Pharmaceutical industry
Abbott
Bayer
Baxter
Cipla
Desitin
GSK
Intervet
Nordmark
Novartis
Orion
Pioneer
Pfizer
Richter
Roche
Sandoz
SC Johnson
Teva
União Quimica

Food, beverage industry
AB Inbev
Carlsberg
Coca Cola
Eckes
Heineken
Hero
Hipp
Kraft
Mattoni
Molsoncoors
Nestlé
Pepsi
Pernod Ricard
Rauch
San Benedetto
Tropicana
Waldquelle

Cosmetitc and chemical industry
Aptar
Bleko Chemie
Chemark
Chemineau
COTY
Kwizda
Lehnkering
Procter & Gamble
Shell
Schirm
Syngenta
Twiga