Facts and data

The pharmaceutical market is tackling the issue of serialization, with the objective of univocally tracing pharmaceuticals in order to combat counterfeiting and guarantee safety and traceability of each and every single product along the production and distribution chain. (Reworking from source www.zetes.it).

“Orange Club” is the undertaking fielded by Nimax to ensure its customers personalized assistance. Advantages and features of a highly special service.

The CPR System Cooperative (based in Gallo, FE) is an industry organization that produces, handles and recycles plastic packaging (collapsible green plastic crates widely used in retail) and europallets.

A study promoted by the Ministry of the Environment and conducted by Conai, together with Althesys, looks at the relationship between urban waste management policies and economic growth and employment in the European Union. And meanwhile, packaging recycling continues to grow in Italy.

The Senate committees on environment and industry approved on July 24th an amendment that immediately applies penalties for anyone marketing plastic bags that do not respect the EU regulation UNI EN 11432.

Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) and Müller Martini have reached an agreement on the transfer of Heidelberg’s service business for saddle stitchers and perfect binders.

Fourth successful edition of the SPS IPC Drives Italy, the annual engagement with the world of automation organized last May 20th to 22th in Parma, Italy by Messe Frankfurt: 21,128 visitors (+17%), 584 exhibitors (+13 %), 48,000 square meters (+20%).

Or rather how to revamp the production model listening to the demands of the market and dialoguing with the NGOs.

Packaging at the centre of brand politics, the consumer at the centre of the innovation process. Following this principle, Danone has built at Evian (close to its most famous source) the Research Packaging Center, where technology and creativity enter into alliance for innovation.

If you want your kids to eat healthy food don’t declaim its virtues: you will obtain the opposite effect.

EU regulation 1169/2011 will go into force starting on December 14th, 2014.

Signs of a renewed confidence indicated by multiple sources not confirmed by the fresh fruit and vegetable market.

The battle for guaranteeing the safety and to avoid the adulteration of food oil on restaurant tables now at last finds support in the “banning” of the so-called cruets. Indeed the Italian Chamber of Deputies last June 11th approved an amendment to EC law that had in fact up to now vetoed the labeling and the obligation for restaurants and public businesses to use bottles with anti refill tops.

Organization, service and technology: the growth of Robatech and the new “melt on demand” system launched at Interpack.

Communication and sharing: these are the ideals on which Antonio Feola, newly elected president of Istituto Italiano Imballaggio for 2014-2016, intends to operate, marking his presidency’s continuity with that of his predecessor Angelo Gerosa.

From June 1st, in line with the combination wished for by Confindustria and specified during the last special assembly, Acimga and Assocomaplast have unified their headquarters and started the process of merging their technical/standards, study and service and information technology offices.

The Swiss concern Interroll, world supplier of intralogistical products and solutions, is reinforcing its presence in Russia thanks to a distribution agreement with Kifato MK. The Russian trading house trades dynamic storage solutions including rolls, motors and drives for transport systems, as well as conveyors and sorters, even though not exclusively.

The contribution of young people; the enterprise as a shared asset; the meaning of internationalization; the orientation of innovation... Reflections of Alfredo Aureli, president of Aetna Group, in an interview at Interpack, in which the entrepreneur explains why it’s reasonable to be optimistic.

CIESD Srl was founded in 1979 as the realization of a dream of Francesco Petrillo, who with it created a family company that is now renowned in Italy as well as internationally, and who has managed to pass on the values that have always distinguished his concern on the market not only to his daughters Manuela and Marica, but also to all CIESD’s employees.

FOCUS ON INNOVATION Shrewd “specialisation in everything”, strong R&D orientation (linerless and anti-counterfeit the latest new features), a paintaking market (and competitor) relations policy capable of ensuring more service to the users. Pilot is experiencing two digit growth on a market that is moving again. This too also in Italy. Elena Piccinelli