Facts and data

The consolidated alliance between the Gruppo BolognaFiere, Federfarma and Cosmetica Italia has resulted in more than 70 engagements, including workshops, conventions, CME courses and theme conferences that animated the three-days of Cosmofarma (9th-11th May), attracting over 27,500 Italian (+14%) as well as foreign (+22 %) visitors.

At Hannover 19th to 23rd May last an increasingly international CeMAT proposed over 4,000 innovations from 1,025 exhibiting companies (58% foreign) to about 53,000 visitors, a third of which international, featuring as many as 65 the countries of origin, mainly involving Europeans but also Americans: the US has doubled exhibitors and visitors.

The thirteenth international innovation technology show, organized by Senaf on 27th-29th March in Fiere di Parma, brought together 1,087 exhibitors and 31,625 visitors (+12%).

The organizers (Platform International Exhibitions Inc., ITE Group) emphasize, first of all, the event’s location: Beauty Eurasia is the first exhibition of the beauty industry to be held in the Eurasian region, with 550 exhibitors and 25 thousand visitors expected from over 100 countries.

The upcoming Ailog conference “Diversify, Enhance, Protect: Sustainability in the Supply Chain” will be held by morning at Milan’s Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.

«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…

SNAPSHOT OF A SECTOR A balance of activities and values of packaging destined for the various forms of pharmaceuticals in Italy.

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

In order to more clearly communicate how this Parisian event brings together the entire packaging supply chain, from 2016 on it will be known as “all4pack”, but this year it retains the title of Emballage, held in tandem with Manutention, dedicated to handling, warehousing and logistics.

Quarterly packaging industry observatory. Situation at the end March 2014.

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.

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,…

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.

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

Despite the political and financial uncertainties, Russia’s economy is growing and sustaining the demand for consumer goods.

The Australian Consul General, Mrs Simone Desmarchelier, paid an official visited last February to Nordmeccanica - the Piacenza based manufacturer of machines for the production of flexible packaging.

Italian fine food meets the world of distribution for both Italy and abroad. A year off from Expo 2015, the international food business community will be rendezvousing at Parma 5-8th May, “hosted” by the 17th edition of Cibus, where important changes are prospected.

Two months from the start (day of writing, Ed), the fourth edition of the industrial automation fair organized yearly at Parma by Messe Frankfurt Italia, is already seen to be on the increase, with a +18% of exhibitors.

The exhibition and conference dedicated to vision and ID solutions for industrial traceability and logistics applications, organized by EIOM in conjunction with the ninth Food Industry Technology mcT is now back in its second edition.

A year still to go, but the attention and the interest of the market are already evident.