Editorials

Judgement day. It appears now that finally things are being called to account…. which means, speaking of Italy, the accounts obviously don’t balance up.

Editorial by Luciana Guidotti
I have often gone back to HangarBicocca to take an even closer look at Kiefer’s “towers”. In a very remote suburb of Milan, the Hangar is a truly unique and spellbinding place that hosts art and ideas, and where one can still often breathe the beauty of intelligence. It is there in fact that for years exhibitions, installations, works of visual artists of…

Editorial by Stefano Lavorini
«It’s a real pity. A host of ideas, plans and projects, a lot of effort, a lot of work and money… and then, despite all, end results that - to be sincere – we could at best define as not really up to the expectations and the quality of the contents…».
With these words I opened the July/August editorial and, as promised, I will carry on with the question dedicating…

Editorial by Stefano Lavorini
It’s a real pity. A host of ideas, plans and projects, a lot of effort, a lot of work and money… and then, despite all, end results that - to be sincere – we could at best define as not really up to the expectations and the quality of the contents. This in a nutshell is the common picture that best sums up undertakings and events very different from each other.…

Editorial by Stefano Lavorini
Good day to you all, can you hear me well? This is the classic prelude to any assembly meeting, made by the speaker to call attention to what he or she intends illustrating to the audience.
Capturing the attention of the public, communicating facts and evaluations, stimulating reflection is always an undertaking. In particular today, immersed as we are in the…

Editorial by Stefano Lavorini
These times it’s easy to be hyper critical about Italy, beset as it is by rifts that are difficult to heal and heavy contradictions. To say it outright, those who are pettily ironic about our private (and public) vices, have an easy time of it resorting to the many clichés that dog us.

Editorial by Stefano Lavorini
“There is as much difference between us and ourselves, as there is between us and the others”
Michel de Montaigne, filosofo e scrittore francese, 1533-1592
            
If it is true that there is strength in numbers, what for a small firm might be impossible is not so if one groups together… This is the essence of the matter. This the sense and the objective of…

Editorial by Stefano Lavorini
«It is worth living long and suffering the pains that an inscrutable destiny mixes with our days, if at the end we manage to gain clarity within ourselves and if the problem of all our efforts is grasped and clarified in the results of our actions».

Editorial by Stefano Lavorini
Let’s value things. Hence, to start off the new year, let’s try and remember who we are.

Acceleration by Stefano Lavorini
January 2nd 2013 Corsico (MI) witnessed the funeral of Alfio Gianatti, CEO of Cicrespi SpA, who in just a few months succumbed to a serious illness.

Acceleration by Stefano Lavorini
We know the way things are. Istat describes an Italian work market situation that is to say the least worrying: in September 2012 unemployment reached 10.%, which means 2,774 million people without work. And on top of that, the rate of unemployment of Italians between 15 and 24 years of age is up by 35.1%.

Acceleration by Stefano Lavorini
According to Wikipedia, the sit-com (situation comedy) is a form of comedy based on the representation of the emotional and social interaction of a limited number of characters immersed in a family environment, which viewers and spectators can easily identify themselves with.

Acceleration by Stefano Lavorini
«This summer is also over and we are back…and its time to start up again».This the opening phrase of our September editorial of some years ago, but it gives me the cue for a trip down memory lane, taking a look at what I wrote over the years after the summer break, with the doubt that many are the things – the same things - still left to be done.

Acceleration by Stefano Lavorini
It’s nice to be able to establish that progress never stops, not even in this period of crisis, marked by downturns in nearly all segments of the huge world of packaging producers and users.

Acceleration by Stefano Lavorini
Ours is a difficult world. A world in which even our fears have changed, and changed for the worse. This the sense of the talk given by professor Paolo Legrenzi which closed the proceedings of the fourth edition of the Economic Packaging Conference (Venice 30th and 31st May) organized by the Istituto Italiano Imballaggio in cooperation with Conai, the Italian…

Acceleration by Stefano Lavorini
Question and answer session with… Gianmario Ronchi

Acceleration by Stefano Lavorini
We go through experiences that lead us to wonder, perhaps confusedly, whether what is happening around us is the result of chance or destiny; to wonder whether an occurrence simply has a definite and identifiable cause (chance), or whether in turn it is inevitable that it occurs on the basis of a set and invariable sequence of events (destiny).

Acceleration by Stefano Lavorini
It may seem strange, even provocative, hearing talk of optimism in a market situation like the current one, but this can happen in the world of packaging.

Acceleration by Stefano Lavorini
I have made up my mind. I will let others speak for me: a lot has already been said, and well said. In the words that follow, there is a lot of what lies within me. Paradoxical the fact that - befitting to a common asset - it has been hard to attribute the writing  to a given author (even if it draws its inspiration from the poetry of Walt Whitman).