Facts and data

According to the Foundation for Sustainable Development’s 2014 Climate Dossier, Italy continues on the virtuous path of reduced greenhouse gas emissions.

The original experiment started up a year ago by the Municipalities of Brescia and Aprica to reduce volumes of municipal waste according to the directive of Regione Lombardia has reached its conclusion.

“Presentation” is the ambitious communications project developed by Leonhard Kurz - for which Luxoro is exclusive distributor for the Italian market - to give expression to creativity via a series of original works, presented to the public continuously.

From a recent meeting of the Italian Order of Food Technologists, a significant contribution to the proper definition of food waste and a broad glimpse of the many projects already underway. With an eye to the future and thanks from Expo 2015.

New media and the impasse of European legislators at the centre of the last meeting of Indicam (Milan, October 7th), the Centromarca institute for the fight against counterfeiting, but also, in closing, the appeal of the president of Confindustria Giorgio Squinzi for a joint and international action between local bodies, associations and companies.

According to Grafe, 2014 brings new color tones, with expressive and convincing effects: sometimes bright, but at the same time elegant and never garish, or else characterized by metallic flashes that seem to project the colors into the future.

A new report, from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has benchmarked a number of Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) undertaken by Flexible Packaging Europe (FPE), in a wide ranging, in depth, report to understand best practice in using LCA as an assessment tool for packaging.

Present and future of cellulose-based packaging: reflections and proposals from largescale retail concerns and the Paper & Board Club (Comieco). With an eye to sustainability and a mind to Expo 2015.

For the first time a representative of largescale retail distribution will cover this role.

A double prize for Ronchi Mario SpA from Procter & Gamble.

Andrea Pizzola is the new sales & marketing director of Pixartprinting, the company based in Quarto D’altino (VE) specialized in web-to-print services.

Outstanding the balance of MG2’s activities in India.

From January 1st, 2014, Burgo Group will incorporate the activities of its “Mosaico” Specialty Papers division into its fully proprietary company Mosaico Srl.

LIC Packaging SpA (integrated paper converter based in Verolanuova, BS) has acquired shares of Majrani Group (products and services for in store promotion, Geneva, CH, with European operational headquarters in Peschiera Borromeo, MI) and creates an industrial group worth 65 million euro with 250 employees.

Ishida Europe has invested in excess of £1 million in a dedicated Snacks Demonstration area at its UK manufacturing headquarters in Woodgate, Birmingham.

Quarterly packaging industry observatory. Situation as of late November 2013.

After the contractions recorded in 2012 in production (-5.1%), domestic demand (-4.6%) and foreign trade (exports -5%, imports stable at low levels) 2013 shows a downtrend, even though featuring a degrowth in progressive abatement.

EU Regulation 1169/11 names e-commerce and clarifies what (and how) to write in the ingredients list and nutritional table, how to understand place of origin and the responsibility of operators... the new European regulations on food labeling as read by GS1 Italy| Indicod-Ecr.

Christmas morning through the eyes of a few important film directors.
Happy Holidays.

Encouraging figures for the Italian automatic machine sector, confirmed by the reports by the Ucima Study Center: forecast end of the year closure 7.6% up compared to 2012, with a turnover of 5,920 billion euros. A comment by Giuseppe Lesce.