Environment and legislation

By proactively collaborating with suppliers, customers and trade organizations, Sun Chemical helps the industry to achieve increasingly advanced eco-efficiency objectives. The Group makes a constant commitment to R&D to reduce the environmental impact of its inks, with particular attention to the "responsible" procurement of raw materials.

Travagliato (BS), 18 April 2019. Antares Vision, a Brescia multinational operating in the field of visual inspection, tracking solutions and data management for the pharmaceutical sector, debuted today on Aim Italia, the segment dedicated to small and medium-sized businesses of Piazza Affari.

Applications accepted up to June 30 for participating in the Prevention Call 2019, via which Conai rewards manufacturing and user companies that rethink their packaging with a view to sustainability. 500,000 euros the total prize money and 9 super prizes of 10,000 euro each.

The Italian paper industry invests 420 million euros a year in innovation. Recyclability and biodegradability are the strengths of cellulose packaging.
 

On March 21 and 22 the third Print4All Conference was held in Fiera Milano: dedicated to the printing community, it offered a valuable opportunity to compare cultural trends and technological issues that are driving the industry and brand owners.

The Nestlé food group and Veolia environmental services company will work together to create plastic waste recovery, selection and recycling schemes, with a focus on flexible packaging, focusing on eleven countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe.

The European market for FCMA moves around € 100 billion annually, with 50% of the value coming from the plastics and paper sectors, followed by the glass, metals and the machinery sectors. The need for operators to keep up with constantly evolving laws is imperative, and to carry out their activities by complying with the required obligations without hesitation.

Spreafico Automation keeps growing, confirming its leadership position in the designing, building and marketing of automated machines and technologies for the filling of liquid food.

When a packaging item becomes a functional tool for “good living”. Moba Eurotubi Srl’s commitment “supports” - in every sense of the word - a project of sustainable architecture.

With over 200 patents filed, Biotec has been present in Italy for 12 years but, at the Emmerich plant (Germany), since 1992 it has been producing biodegradable compounds based on non-GMO potato starch intended for flexible and rigid applications (waste/shopping bags , pharmaceutical capsules, blisters for the food industry, packaging for cosmetics...).

Food in Italian larders stored in steel tins and cans is cheap, versatile, healthy ... and with a little imagination, can become part of gourmet creations.

Starting from the second half of September, the CONAI campaign on the correct use and reuse of shopping bags, has been launched in collaboration with Federdistribuzione, ANCC Coop and ANCD Conad.

From 1 January 2019 the CAC for steel packaging decreases Thanks to the 361,403 tons of steel recovered from packaging in Italy in 2017, a direct saving of 686,660 tons of iron ore and 216,842 tons of coal was obtained, as well as 646,922 tons of CO2.

From 1 January 2019 the CAC for steel packaging decreases and that relative to aluminium has been more than halved. In turn the tariff for paper and cardboard, plastic and glass packaging has been raised, while the subsidies for the re-use of wooden pallets have been strengthened.

With the 361,403 t sent for recycling in Italy last year, it would be possible to build 3,600 km of railway tracks, sufficient to connect Bari with Moscow.

Veolia, international company that operates in waste management, has recently launched a program for the collection and recycling of used coffee cups, in collaboration with some of the major chains of coffee shops in the United Kingdom, where every day 7 million coffees are consumed in disposable cups.

Born out of the partnership between Solvay Specialty Polymers and Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd. (global supplier of injection moulding machines and services for the plastics industry), the new high barrier Verian™ PET (HBP) is an innovative line of recyclable polymers, enabling the creation of a new generation of sustainable solutions for bottles and films, while ensuring maximum…

Valorizing the environmental sustainability of packaging. This is the ultimate meaning of the Conai Prevention Call*, aimed exclusively at Conai members - be they producers or users - that plan to innovate a packaging solution or its life cycle by altering its environmental impact, saving energy, facilitating recycling, optimizing production and logistics, reducing waste and so on.  L.G.

In December, the eighth edition of a report on waste recycling in Italy was presented, authored by the Sustainable Development Foundation and FISE UNIRE, with support of the Ministry for the Environment and ISPRA. Below is a summary of the main findings on packaging collection and recycling.

Having completed its acquisition of 100% of Mater-Biopolymer from the Mossi & Ghisolfi Group 2016, Novamont has activated the second phase in a project to convert the Mater-Biopolymer plant in Patrica (FR) in order to double its output of ORIGO-BI® biopolyesters, which are used to enhance the technical, economic and environmental performance of MATER-Bi® biodegradable and compostable…