Editorials

Semi-serious account of an impossible future. Editorial by Stefano Lavorini.

It's a good thing that summer vacation is also behind us this year.
We finally have a whole year to get back to dreaming...imagining how it would be okay to live.
Editorial by Stefano Lavorini

When you say Design for Recycling
Editorial by Stefano Lavorini

Sustainability and profitability: this is the theme we have to deal with today, while looking ahead to tomorrow.
Editoriale di Stefano Lavorini
 

At the beginning of May, the data relating to the IX and X reports on segregated collection and recycling, produced by ANCI* as part of the ANCI-CONAI** framework agreement, was presented. By Stefano Lavorini

Or rather… Our matters seen from Mars. By Stefano Lavorini

Not for one's own good but for the good of humanity, the people, the nation…» This challenging statement has been and is widely used to celebrate unconfessable interests and manipulate the economic, cultural and political needs that characterize the functioning of society.. Stefano Lavorini

"Who in the world manages to keep themselves upright, while overwhelmed by fear? This was asked by Athena in the Eumenides of Aeschylus, when she founded the Areopagus, the ancient Athenian court reserved for the most serious crimes.

“Ferrari Challenger" by Sun Chemical, or rather, if you don't race you don't win: as a person and as a company. Notes of a very enjoyable and instructive day, even without having won. Stefano Lavorini

Know yourself and be aware of your limits: this is one of the classical interpretations of the maxim that, it is said, was inscribed on the temple of Apollo in Delphi.

Stefano Lavorini

No Papeete Beach, no Billionaire... For many of us humans, this summer has been very different from diving into more or less exclusive and risky social events, from the spasmodic search for pleasure.
Stefano Lavorini

Bound for Glory is the title of a novel by Woody Guthrie published in 1943, from which a film directed by Hal Ashby was based in 1976.
Stefano Lavorini

Up to now, within the world we knew, we have felt reasonably strong and secure as individuals and as a collective... Yet it only took an extraordinary event to bring us back to the past, to the recollection and personal experience of ancestral fears.
Stefano Lavorini

Once upon a time there was sustainability... and there will be once again in the "new" world after Covid-19. Rather, although the epidemic phase is still far from over, environmental issues in general and the circular economy will remain at the centre of government and industry agendas, exacerbated by consumers' growing emergency discomfort in the face of an increasingly uncertain future. Stefano…

Unusual and full of uncertainties, the times we are all experiencing, and with us our families, our friends, our companies. And yet, we already need to look ahead, perhaps with a baggage of convictions and awarenesses different from the time "before".

Champoluc, 5-6 febbraio 2020. Unusual, engaging, exciting - in perfect "Sun Chemical style" -  the "Ice Driving School", wished for by the ink multinational and organized by the Toyota Driving Academy on the Champoluc Driving Park (AO) track. By Stefano Lavorini

We receive and gladly publish the open letter of an entrepreneur in our sector who, at the time of the Corona virus, reflects on the importance of "teaming up" in companies, but above all takes the opportunity to reaffirm the reasons, all positive, of packaging. A fine example of resilience, or of that «ability to cope with traumatic events in a positive way, to positively reorganize one's life…

After talking about sustainability "in my own way" in the last two editorials of 2019, I received a letter from a young graduate scholar of the subject, bitter-sweet in her sincerity, which I propose to the attention of our readers.
Given the complexity of the topic, I find it important to open an unprejudiced discussion in the magazine, with the aim of adding elements of clarity and reflection…

The Plastic Tax now occupies the front pages of national newspapers and the large packaging supply chain is in fibrillation. By Stefano Lavorini

"Your youngest don’t allow you sleep, the older ones won't even let you rest"... by Stefano Lavorini