Facts and data

Asahi Beverages, Pact Group Holdings and Cleanaway Waste Management have formed a joint venture to build a new $32.1 million plastic recycling plant.

“Going beyond profit and ensuring transparency and widespread value for the community” is the philosophy behind a major goal achieved by the Italian bioplastics group Novamont.

According to a study commissioned by DS Smith, a leading player in the sustainable packaging sector, some of the purchasing habits developed by Italian consumers during the lockdown may continue in the “new normal”.

NextChem is expanding its circular economy and chemical recycling technologies with the addition of circular ethanol production to its circular hydrogen and circular methanol production technologies (currently in the engineering phase) based on the chemical recycling of plastic and dry waste.

Guala Closures’ preliminary data for the first half of 2020 revealed satisfactory economic results despite the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Group now enjoys 100% ownership of company specialising in the design and development of digital services for industrial supervision and automation.

ACMA (Coesia Group) has continued to evolve its customer support strategies, following the development of technology and market trends, developing advanced technologies to increase the speed of responses and the efficiency of services provided to customers.

The 2019 of the sector: trends and markets of use, production trends and development prospects for primary packaging glass

According to the elaborations of the Italian Packaging Institute, in 2019 (preliminary figures), the turnover of the national packaging sector exceeded 33.5 billion euros, recording a growth of about 1%.

Four-monthly observatory of the packaging chain: situation in early May 2020. The analysis obviously suffers from the consequences of the world pandemic, which has blocked activities and heavily influenced everyone’s habits, in many ways.

Nespresso has announced an investment of CHF 160 million to expand its production centre in Romont, Switzerland with the addition of a second production hall.

Sofidel, the tissue paper group known for the Regina brand, ranked 3rd amongst Italian companies (11th overall) in the Italy RepTrak® ranking, the annual survey that measures companies’ reputation among Italian consumers, behind the big names in the automotive and food industries Ferrari and Ferrero.

With the aim of consolidating its existing Italian network of 660 stores, Lidl is launching an investment plan for Italy worth €400 million on top of the €2 billion invested over the last six years.

With the solidity of the Italian manufacturers of automatic packaging and wrapping machines confirmed for 2019 - where the growth of solutions for the pharmaceutical industry features - we look with a certain apprehension and a good dose of realism at the market evolution for 2020. Indicators from the Ucima Annual Statistical Survey.  Milena Bernardi 

Following consultations with member companies, the Designation Committee of Ucima (Italian Automatic Packaging Machinery Manufacturers’ Union) has opted for an arrangement in which two business leaders will take turns as Chairman during the four-year period 2020-2024. 

The Italian packaging machinery manufacturers have recorded their fourth consecutive growth year with a 2.2% increase in turnover in 2019. It is the only capital goods sector to see an upturn

Meeting on 22 July in Milan, the new Board of Directors of the National Packaging Consortium CONAI unanimously elected Luca Ruini as its chairman for the three-year period 2020-2022.
Ruini, 55, served as a member of CONAI’s Board of Directors from 2002 to 2008 and from 2011 to 2017. He participated in all the working groups involved in developing the Italian Packaging Waste management system and…

The Philippine company Liwayway Food, which produces snacks under the Oishi brand, has begun work on a new factory in the Qibray district of Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Sturdiness, barrier to external agents, perfect conservation of contents, recyclability: these are the strengths of metal packaging, containers with a long history and wide diffusion. Data on the performance of the national market, which in 2019 recorded a slowdown in production.

In a $530 million deal, Denmark’s Chr. Hansen has acquired Hansen, Wisconsin-based probiotics manufacturer UAS Laboratories.