Facts and data

In the last five years the Italian green economy has grown at double-digit rates.

Among the initiatives undertaken by Federalimentare to “fill” Expo 2015 with ideas and content, many converge - directly or indirectly - on packaging, fundamental in the fight against food waste and useful tool to combat the phenomenon of counterfeiting and the “Italian sounding”.

In the news titled “Automation for the food sector in Parma”, published in ItaliaImballaggio 1-2/2015, we erroneously defined B&R as a “German” group. B&R is in actual fact an international concern with an Austrian parent company. We excuse ourselves with the company and our readers.
 

On 5 February, the Flexographic Technical Associations of Benelux, France, Britain, Italy and Spain signed an agreement for the establishment of FTA EUROPE, European Federation of Flexographic Associations. Its mission will be pursued through activities and initiatives in three areas: the standardization of the flexo printing process; the definition of a professional European resumé for flexo…

Anie (Italian Federation of Electrotechnical and Electronic Equipment Enterprises) in collaboration with the Business School of the Polytechnic of Milan kicks off with the first edition of its training course on “Strategies for Business Internationalization”.

To create together significant synergies to become a first rate player on the international market: This the objective behind the merger, that  from February 9 2015, sees the new  company name Amut Dolci Bielloni operative.

Created by the Foundation for Sustainable Development and ENEA

The global network of social entrepreneurs/innovators, that has been active for 35 years, with 3,000 entrepreneurs-innovators in over 80 countries, has come to Italy to “proselytize”.

After a first year of activity, having delivered 60 inter-company courses, attended by approximately 1,200 professionals, the Scuola per i Beni Strumentali (SBS) of Ucima and Acimac resumes its training activities.

From the cooperation between ICE-Agenzia and Edizioni Dativo, the column dedicated to Italian companies operating in the packaging sector keen on considering their potential for growth abroad.

Account and contents of the “Food Contact Materials and Articles” seminar, organized by the Istituto Italiano Imballaggio and the Italian National Institute of Health (ISS).

The “numbers” of the Italian fresh produce market and focus on the relative type of packaging, from the field to the shelf.

The non-profit limited liability consortium LUCENSE is partner in the BIOBOARD project (funded by the European Commission and coordinated by the Spanish Innovació i Reserca Industrial i Sostenible), whose goal is the development of technological extrusion coated paper&board products made from renewable raw materials and food industry waste, so as to increase the potential for recycling of…

Leading player in the Italian snack market, Amica Chips has again tasked RobilantAssociati (Brand Advisory and Strategic Design) with the evolution of its visual identity, to further foster the growth of the company and the quality of its proposals.

IMA: agreement signed for the acquisition of a stake in Teknoweb Converting. Thiis investment will foster production and marketing synergies with the ILAPAK Group.

Quarterly Italian packaging industry observatory. Situation at the end of November 2014.  By Plinio Iascone

Two users and three print machine builders as well as two converters “moderated” by an immoderate journalist gave rise to an unusual encounter. Acimga, along with the Istituto Italiano Imballaggio and the two “groups” of Assografici, Giflex and Gipea, in fact organized the first of a series of sector supply chain encounters, to help further augment the exchange of information and knowhow in the…

Multichannel, new forms of distribution and purchasing habits redraw the sector domestic market.

As of April 1 2015 the environmental contributions for steel and wood packaging are to be reduced.

“Those” of plastic are not always “ugly, dirty and bad” (some may recall the 1976 film by Ettore Scola), as the most uninformed environmentalists would have it. This is all the more true in the case of Crocco Spa, a producer of flexible packaging that also boasts a long history of creating heatshrink films for bundles, stretch films for palletization and polyethylene cling films for use in the…