Facts and data

The personal luxury goods market in 2018 grew by 6%, for a total turnover of 260 billion euro, compared to a turnover of the entire luxury sector equal to 1,200 billion (+5%).

Nastritex (Busto Arsizio, VA) is a leader in the production and marketing of innovative fabrics and materials in support all the production technologies of compact cosmetics.

The positive trend of the national packaging sector also confirmed for 2018, in line with a trend that persists since 2014. Average prices of raw materials and production.

In the food sector, the role of packaging - which was, until recently, limited to protecting the contents from external contaminations and to providing support to convey information to consumers - is now the subject of research in the field of materials and technologies.

Quarterly observatory of the packaging supply chain: situation in December 2018. Consolidated data and development assumptions in the two-year period 2019-20.

With a turnover of 2018 close to 7.7 billion euros, the industrial sector belonging to Ucima (Union of Italian Manufacturers of Automatic Packaging and Wrapping Machines) confirms its international leadership.

After +8.7% in 2017, the turnover of the sector under Acimga grows by 10% and, today, based on the preliminary results released by the Association, is worth 3 billion euros.

CAMA GROUP announces the birth of the new PHHC (Personal, Health & Home Care) Business Unit, focused on satisfying the requests coming from the main players in personal care, cosmetics, OTC and home care industries.

The French 2019 Finance Bill has introduced a 140% “super-depreciation” tax concession for SMEs (turnover below €50 million and fewer than 250 employees) intending to invest in robotics or systems for facilitating digital transformation.

Presentation of the four “itinerant” Forums that ANIE Automazione and Messe Frankfurt Italia will be organizing in 2019 to review software, machine vision, mechatronics and remote control. A well-attended round table acted as a prelude to the topics that will be discussed during the events in question.  By Maurizio Cacciamani

Imagine reaching 300 million in turnover; wanting to grow internally and externally; to (obviously) want to invest in manpower but also (obviously) in structures and technology to optimize production, organization and the supply chain. A complex and audacious design, which can only be achieved, as Simona Michelotti, founder of SIT Group, claims «thanks to the optimism that comes from drive and…

The winners of the Conai 2018 Prevention Call (fifth edition) were announced on November 19, that made 400,000 euros available to packaging user and producer companies that have revised their packaging in terms of sustainability.

The integrated systems for inspection, coding and marking for the biomedical devices market were the focus of a training seminar organized on October 12 by Nimax (leader in Italy in the field of coding and marking) and by the Brescia based Antares Vision (global supplier of  visual inspection, tracking and intelligent data management systems).

12-13 December 2018, Hotel Principe di Savoia, Milan

A European campaign promotes the sustainability of aluminium and steel packaging which, by virtue of its characteristics, fully meets the principles of the circular economy. With the involvement of CIAL and Ricrea, Anfima coordinates the initiative in Italy, which includes the diffusion of a registered trademark to be affixed to boxes, jars, cans, cans, drums, buckets... to guarantee the complete…

The range of Laminil sandwich panels proposed by Isonova is enriched by a novelty for high-end packaging: the luxury substrates Silver, Gold and Nero Lam are the basis for realizing luxury boxes in various models (according to FEFCO codes) and in different combinations (white/black inner foam combined with white/black paper surfaces, gold/silver metallic or, on request, with alternative finishes).

Nowadays, packaging is required to be a meaningful object able to create a union between product and consumer, between values and needs, between brand and collective imagination.

In collaboration with IFTF  - Institute for the Future, Palo Alto, Matteo Vignoli and his team have developed the “Seeds of Disruption Forecast Map”, a concept map that investigates the ways in which technological innovation, formulated and implemented through the collaboration between the actors of the agrifood chain, is remodeling the sector at a global level.
Vignoli’s studies show how the…

Sustainability, e-commerce and omnichannel: the food & beverage segment will necessarily have to make these three concepts their own to continue on the path of innovation. But take note: innovation must be increasingly shared among all the actors in the supply chain, in order to be able to provide adequate responses to the new needs of the planet and consumers. This the leitmotiv of the…

Keep the original organoleptic qualities unaltered, offer clear information on the product, appeal to the eye and enhance the brand: when it comes to fruit and vegetables, these are the many functions that packaging is called upon to fulfil.