Facts and data

The Assocomaplast economic survey and expectations regarding the upcoming Plast.

During 2014 the US dollar, the reference currency for international trade, gained more than 15% in value over the euro, causing the increase of almost all raw materials, while the fall in the cost of oil has only partially offset the currency change disadvantages.

According to studies made by the EAFA (European Aluminium Foil Association), the aluminum foil industry closed 2014 on a positive note.

We asked Giuseppe Lesce, president of Ucima, to discuss the state of the Italian automatic machinery market, providing a view from the sector association’s privileged position, in order to help us understand the reasons for success and challenges that a sector must face. Data, facts and perspectives. S.L.

Aventics, independent company founded by Rexroth Pneumatics and focused on the production of pneumatic components and systems, launches  its new portal aventics.com/it. The website has been made more “friendly” and renewed in content and structure, to better support the search for product information and product configuration.

This April 18, 2015 Martini Alfredo SpA celebrates the seventieth year of operation and the good results of the administration of Glauco Rota, who has headed the company, founded by Alfredo Martini in the immediate postwar period, since 2002.

The board of directors of the Holmen group, which owns Iggesund Paperboard, approved investments for 60 million euro, to support the competitiveness and sustainability of Iggesund in Sweden and in Workington, GB.

In 2014 the Interroll Group closed with a consolidated turnover up 6% and an increase in orders of 10% (at a conservative estimate: Of the 6 sorters sold to Brazilian Post only the one to be delivered in 2015 has been considered).

Last March, reported by Assobioplastiche*, the Competent Authority for Market Competition ordered 17 retail brands to remove the qualification of “biodegradable” from their carrier bags made from additivised plastic, and more generally to monitor the correctness of the claim placed on their shopping bags

Weighing and packaging equipment specialist Ishida Europe has attained preferred supplier status with the Danish Crown Group, one of the biggest international pork and beef producers, which includes the market-leading Tulip, Plumrose and Sokolow brands.

Oreal Americas and Avery Dennison have teamed up to assess and reduce the environmental impact of the labels affixed to the packaging of the beauty multinational, for this purpose reconsidering the entire lifecycle of the product.

Simei has been acclaimed a showcase event for the promotion of Made in Italy and will thus receive funding from the Italian Ministry of Economic Development, as part of the strengthening of the Italian trade show sector: 48 million in 2015, more than ten times the average of the past five years.

Italy’s gross domestic product is predicted increase by 0.7% in 2015 and 1.1% in 2016, supported by a recovery in consumer spending; Italian exports are predicted to show further growth, in turn, imports will grow driven by “slight recovery”, though without offsetting the current balance of trade.

The new features of the competition, its guiding principles, promotion, sponsors, and related events and of course ... the nominations. Hence spotlight on the protagonists of the contest - this year dedicated to technical innovation and technology - sponsored and organized by the Istituto Italiano Imballaggio and its Service Company Packaging Meeting.

Common principles for a conscientious design, production and use of packaging.
The project of the ETHICAL PACKAGING CHARTER, very briefly, has the objective of promoting a correct “packaging culture”, but also bearing witness to the attention of the world of packaging towards the needs and demands of consumers (conscientious citizens, made ever more aware by the values expressed by the goods…

The own branding fair Marca was held on 14 and 15 January 2015, registering growth in figures compared to the previous edition: 6,886 professional visitors (+4.3%) and 481 exhibitors (+6%).

From the collaboration between ICE-Agency and Edizioni Dativo, the column dedicated to Italian companies operating in packaging who are looking carefully at the possibility of growth abroad.

Overall picture of the Italian beauty market: production, exports, materials and packaging use.

The market data update, presented at the 9th European Bioplastics Conference in Brussels, confirm the positive growth trend of the global bioplastics production capacities, set to increase from around 1.6 million tonnes in 2013 to approximately 6.7 million tonnes by 2018.

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