Sanctions and payments in Iran
The restrictive measures adopted in economic and trade relations with Iran can be traced to Resolution 1737, implemented by the United Nations Security Council in 2006, and subsequent amendments.
As the world’s leading event for the digital industry, CeBIT is once again supporting the CODE_n initiative and its international competition for startups and budding enterprises. In line with its motto of “Smart Solutions for Global Challenges”, the contest is devoted to uncovering inspired digital business models for sustained energy solutions.
The final data of industrial automation for 2011, presented by ANIE/AssoAutomazione, show an industrial segment that has reacted to the crisis with dynamism. Technological excellence, commitment to innovation and internationalization are the main drivers that have led the way.
Presented Nespresso’s global Ecolaboration program for sustainable production and social responsibility. The Italian partners committed to the project, the specific objectives and the paradigm of sustainability, read as an asset to be further developed.
Unipro and the sector’s good prospects: turnover touching 9 billion euros (+4.4%) despite the recession and an acknowledgement of the keen entrepreneurship of the younger generations.
In Germany it will be the first system of its kind to go operational in August at the beverage producer Stute Nahrungsmittelwerke. We speak of the Krones PET recycling system: based on SuperClean-PET-Flake technology, that enables one to go straight from the recycled granule to the pressmoulding of preforms or containers.
TRENDS AND PROSPECTS The turnover for 2011 of Italian packaging and wrapping machine manufacturers exceeds 4,300 million euros. Caution in the forecasts for 2012. The need to act as a network, to support business in the coming future.
Figures, market and trends Production and use of rigid packaging. Focus on bottles, flacons, tubs, trays, bins, blisters, honeycombs, crates, pallets, flexible tubes and closures.
FROM A TO Z Packaging design as a point of encounter between functionality, taste, technology and communication shows its full force in the applications of the cosmetics sector. We report some of the ideas and suggestions for packaging from PCD and ADF 2012, with some forays into the food sector.
Facts and Figures The Italian perfumery-cosmetics market registers figures that go against those of many other industrial sectors. Exports are doing well, so too Italian domestic demand. Packaging thanks duly and follows suite.
The Cuki projects. Reduction of material for cardboard packaging and practical help
to the Food Bank that with "Cuki save the food", redistributes surplus food.
We alluded to the fact in the last issue that, to speak of complex sales, certain conditions must arise that do not happen every day, neither for the purchasers nor to for the sellers.
The Mexican market for packaging machinery and packaging is highly dynamic, Italian technology is popular with Mexican businesses and large multinationals present in the country with direct foreign investment, aimed at serving the domestic and the north American markets.
The Italian packaging machinery manufacturers have posted a 2011 turnover of more than 4,300 million euro. Forecasts are cautious for the current year. In view of the slowdown in the last few months of 2011, the projections for 2012 are in line with the previous year’s turnover levels.
ETHICAL DESIGN Fine ideas, simple and elegant, innovative but feasible at the same time, faithful to a design process that revolves around the ethics of responsibility ... And perhaps for this reason, capable of positively influencing our ways of being consumers/citizens. Suggestions from the show "Responsabilmente" and an invitation to consider the quality, values and contents of a form of…
Marketing, products and ideas for sustainability from the Gerosa Group, rethinking the value chain, from raw material to waste, finding solutions that can dramatically reduce the negative effects of human activities on the environment.
Investing in photovoltaic is worthwhile. This is borne witness to by Imballaggi Montevecchi Imola after they installed a system designed and built by Alter Eco on their company premises.
ON DEMAND Pixartprinting powers up its label web-to-print service, investing in dedicated latest generation equipment. Objective: ensure flexibility and maximum quality on both very short runs as well as with larger lots while printing on any material, with on-time delivery and “web” type costs.
FACTS AND FIGURES According to an initial balance on activity for the year 2011 the Italian glass packaging production sector has put in a good showing: export figures, linked to the performance of certain foodstuffs, are encouraging, but the Italian domestic market also put in a good performance.
