Converting

The Italian packaging machinery manufacturers have recorded their fourth consecutive growth year with a 2.2% increase in turnover in 2019. It is the only capital goods sector to see an upturn

Alessandro Beltrami has been elected President of Taga Italy for the next two years, supported by the Vice-Presidents David Serenelli and Adalberto Monti.

Representation, training, knowhow and qualification in the flexo field: Sante Conselvan is tackling his second mandate as President of the Italian flexographic association with the objective of giving solidity and continuity to the initiatives started up over the previous three years.

Cama Group is a leading producer of automatic cardboard packaging systems. Its owners, the brother and sister team of Daniele and Annalisa Bellante, launched its sports division in 2014.  The Cama Group Sports Amateur Association promotes team building for its employees outside the work environments.

Early November 2015, Ucima - Italian Association of Automatic Packing and Wrapping Machine Builders presented the results of a prospective study made by the Ucima Study Center, one of a kind for its completeness in data and market features.

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.

Messe Düsseldorf has fixed the dates of the next Interpack that, following the usual three-year interval, will be held May 4th to 10th, 2017.

The spring assembly of the Flexible Packaging Group (member of Assografici) meeting in Milan last April 16th elected a new Executive Committee that has chosen Dr. Michele Guala, CEO of Safta SpA as its President.

PACKAGING Reduction of costs of print forms, flexibility in the processing of the substrates and a better environmental balance: the advantages of variable format web offset printing on Muller Martini’s VSOP printing presses.

Double Italo-American open house at Uteco, which presents its Crystal New Series globally: a totally equipped flexo printing machine specifically designed for flexible packaging.

Digital plates with textured surface for maximum print quality at high speeds

Labelers look with growing interest toward outlets in flexible packaging, narrow web expands and technology breaks down the barriers between aplication areas. From Brussels, the latest developments in machinery, supports and auxiliaries for labeling.

Düsseldorf (D), 16th to 23rd October 2013.”The” international plastics and rubber fair is scheduled to host a growing number of exhibitions (3,138 from 56 countries) over a floorspace also on the increase (171,033 net sqm). The Italians are still the most numerous among foreign exhibitors (about 400), but others are catching: this year the Chinese companies participating at the fair will be 342.

ANTICIPATIONS Acimga formulates its promotional activities plan for 2014, with three main objectives: internationalization, training and networking.

VISION SYSTEMS Four companies in Italy’s Northeast that have developed artificial vision systems in different areas and for different applications, have joined together to give life to VEN - Vision Excellence Network. Objective: more competitiveness and visibility, lower costs, reduced time to market...

Nordmeccanica, a global leader in the construction of lamination and coating machinery, based in Piacenza, relaunches Galileo Vacuum Systems, specialized in the creation of vacuum installations for metalizing plastic films.

The largest paper manufacturing machine in the world, almost 600 meters long and with an annual capacity of 1 million tons of celluose pulp and 900,000 t of fine paper, is installed in China, at the Hainan Jinhai Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) papermill.

As of the first of July last the German slitter-rewinder builder Goebel Schneid und Wickel Systeme GmbH became part of the IMS Deltamatic group (Calcinate, BG).

In early September, Kodak, via the mouth of the president and chief executive officer Antonio M. Perez, officialised the successfully terminated reorganization of the company with the completion of restructuring procedures under Chapter 11 of the US company code.

The 25th Viscom Italia, hosted by Reed Exhibitions at Fiera Milano Rho on October 3rd-5th, once again proposes itself as a creative hub for open and participatory innovation that follows the multiform paths and multi-technologies of visual languages.