Facts and data

  • Objective: build consensus through innovation

    «Every journey begins with the exciting challenge of imagining what lies ahead».
    How is the relationship between brand and consumer changing? What factors are influencing the evolution of the paradigm in this sense? And what actions need to be taken in order to face a future that is looking to be radically different in terms of the development, production, distribution and communication a…
  • Grow and stay young… inside

    Marchesini Group is now 40 years old and celebrates by opening the gates of its Pianoro works. A showroom, a museum that tells the history of the company, routes that show the new organization of production and many, many machines. Numerous the visitors, including the 150 sector operators that came by plane during Interpack, and great optimism in the words of President Maurizio Marchesini:…
  • Packaging, imagined and produced

    New paradigms People who think of people, who design a product capable of entering the life of each and anyone of us, and aboveall, capable of remaining there. The new frontier of the cosmetics market is “sharing”: the sharing of a dream - that illuminates many personal “I-worlds” - but also, first and foremost, the sharing of competency and culture, in order to multiply the potentialities that…
  • Packaging for cosmetics and perfumes

    PRODUCTION AND TRENDS Daily hygiene and personal wellness products are indispensable, even during a prolonged crisis. Indeed, the production output of the manufacturers belonging to Cosmetica Italia has grown by 2.6% during the last year, and although the trend shows a few contractions, high growth potential persists. Numbers, choices and trends in the use of packaging follows. Plinio Iascone
  • Oscar dell’Imballaggio 2014: the winners

    Five the winners of the competition promoted by Istituto Italiano Imballaggio. This year’s theme was Quality Design and, not by chance, organized in cooperation with the Scuola del Design of Politecnico di Milano. The awards ceremony during the Milan Design Week “Fuorisalone”.
  • Luxury samples

    A precious, elegant, exclusive limited edition. Thinking of the world of luxury, Arjowiggins Creative Papers has come up with A+S61, a “jewel” of creativity to support a high-end image.
  • DHL Express brings Packstation® to Italy

    Investments for 1.5 billion euros in the development of smart logistics solutions: a “revolution” in the world of shipment, that improves the life of the citizens.
  • Italian food in a nutshell

    In the month of February, based on interim figures, the Italian food sector registered a drop of -0.2% on the same month the year previous, and Italian industry as a whole showed, compared to February 2013, a +0.4%, both in interim figures as well as in the exact number of days reading.
  • “Responsible” water

    Levissima (Sanpellegrino Group) is among the 137 virtuous companies awarded in the fifth edition of Regione Lombardia’s 2013 “Best Practices” Social Responsibility review.
  • Have a good trip!

    Stora Enso announces the winner of the design competition Recreate Packaging 2014:  the beauty products “ Have a good trip” the work of German designer Arthur Schmidt, who won the first prize of 8,000 euros.
  • E-commerce: the 5 trends for 2014

    According to the French firm Vente-Privee Consulting (consulting service in digital strategy) the scenario of the “digital ecosystem” features the need to involve evermore aware users, favoring a satisfying shopping experience. This involves five phenomena that need to be studied, with considerations valid aboveall for the fashion field, but useful for all sectors.
  • Senior proof packaging

    TREND The European population is getting older and older, generating a growing demand for special products and services, and suitable packaging. The analyses made by Asia Pulp & Paper and a study carried out by the Italian Pharmaceutical Agency AIFA. By Tristan d’Avezac de Moran
  • Good news from industry - Ipack-Ima Observatory

    In the second half of 2013 the economic crisis, which began in 2008, began to show signs of abating at the macroeconomic level, and the expectations for GDP growth in 2014 are optimistic.
  • Paper and graphics: prospects

    The fourth quarter of 2013 and the first quarter of 2014 saw an improvement in the economic situation, GDP dynamics and industrial production. The results of the latest study by the Italian paper-graphics sector federation, that represents print-graphics and paper&board processing and converting machines; paper&board production; print-graphics; paper&board processing and converting,…
  • Aerosol: alu cans over 7 billion

    Aerobal,(International Organisation of Aluminium Aerosol Container Manufacturers, reported a record result for 2013 with an output rising by some 2% to more than seven billion cans, despite economic turbulence worldwide and a slowdown in growth in several of the largest emerging markets in Asia and South America.
  • Metal packaging – Data 2013

    FACTS AND FIGURES Size of the Italian market, prospects, innovation and improvements in the performance of aluminum and steel packaging intended for food and non-food. Plinio Iascone
  • Positive balance for IMA

    The IMA group closed 2013 with excellent results in all the business areas, thanks to the positive run of sales of automatic machines towards the main sectors (pharma and food) and the contribution of the Ilapak Grup, consolidated since the month of August 2013.

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