Facts and data

  • How to manage the digital and green transitions

    Oct 11, 2024
    Environmental sustainability and the circular economy are essential factors for reducing ecological impact and using resources responsibly. Strategies, technologies and business models for companies.
  • Beverages: market and packaging

    Oct 11, 2024
    In this article we analyse alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages produced in Italy and imported and exported and, finally, those consumed in our country. This last parameter takes into consideration all the beverages distributed through the different sales channels: mass retail, Ho.Re.Ca, online sales, etc.
  • Manufacturing: renewed confidence

    Sep 27, 2024
    According to the MECSPE Research Centre, there are encouraging signals from industry, thanks particularly to the boost from the Transition 5.0 Plan approved in January 2024, and inserted into the NRRP framework.
  • Competitive with intelligent manufacturing

    Sep 27, 2024
    Solutions for the management of product and process data, digital twins and intelligent management systems to optimise operations and the supply chain and for adapting rapidly to the market with increasingly personalised products.
  • A guide for sorted collection in universities

    Sep 27, 2024
    The first Guidelines for the sorted collection of packaging waste and other urban waste in Italian universities have been published. It’s a document promoted by CONAI, arising out of the collaboration with member universities of the Resources and Waste Work Group of the RUS - Rete delle Università per lo Sviluppo sostenibile (University Network for Sustainable Development).
  • Giving shape to the label of the future

    Sep 26, 2024
    Creative and sustainable, attentive to the economy and to gender parity: producers and processors of self-adhesive labels met together at the GIPEA 2024 Congress to discuss the complex issues affecting the packaging sector, highlighting the new values of labels.
  • Common roots

    Sep 25, 2024
    A well-rooted tree but with many different leaves: an image that evokes Boxmarche’s approach to doing business and which was the common theme of the event during which the Corinaldo-based company presented the Living Company Report 2023, besides inaugurating the “Bosco di Fonte Mora” (Fonte Mora Wood).
  • The packaging machinery market surpassed the 9 billion mark

    Sep 23, 2024
    Italian packaging and wrapping machinery manufacturers have closed another year of growth (+8% against 2022). The export market was particularly dynamic in 2023, reaching 7.2 billion euros (+10.5% against the previous year). The domestic market remains positive, albeit at a slower pace.
  • Paper and cardboard packaging

    Aug 19, 2024
    In the face of the contraction recorded in 2023 of almost all types of packaging (including empty packaging), cellulose packaging remains among the most representative in the entire sector in terms of tonnes: 33% of market share and 26.8% in terms of turnover, second only to plastic packaging.
  • Report on the state of packaging May 2024

    Aug 19, 2024
    Quarterly monitoring of the packaging supply chain: situation updated to May 2024. General economic situation and analysis of manufacturing activity and consequent evolution of the packaging sector.
  • The packaging of dairy products

    Jul 19, 2024
    In Italy, the pro-capita consumption of dairy products stands at around 286 kg per year. This analysis examines the following segments: milk for direct consumption (excluding that for industrial use), cheeses, butter and yoghurt.
  • Increasingly green companies with the new EU measures

    Jun 18, 2024
    2024 is a year of measures on sustainability for the European Union, committed for some time to regulating a number of key factors for the creation of a green economy from the point of view of development practices and models.
  • Sustainable cosmetics packaging: Aliplast presents guidelines developed with Cosmetica Italia

    Jun 14, 2024
    Presented during Cosmoprof Worldwide 2024, the white paper “Plastic packaging in the cosmetics sector” is a handbook developed by Aliplast (Hera Group) and Cosmetica Italia to set out the basic concepts of recycling for the world of beauty, which is increasingly attentive to sustainability but not close enough to the new innovative materials with recycled content available on the market.

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