Facts and data

  • Industrial relauncing in Italy

    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 machine

    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.
  • Strategic buy-up

    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).
  • Kodak turns over a new leaf

    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.
  • Visual communication in Milan

    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.
  • Plastic packaging – Data 2012

    NUMBERS AND FACTS Growth trends of production, with particular reference to rigid packaging: bottles, flacons, buckets, trays, bins, blisters, honeycombs, crates, pallets, flexible tubes and closures.
  • Products for household detergency

    THE FIGURES AND THE PACKAGING The “cleanliness culture” leads consumers to favor products for home detergency featuring a high service content (also in terms of time-saving) and high bactericidal functions; the exact differentiation in terms of specific use implemented by the big sector brands is among the factors that has led to the success of the same.
  • Doing and undoing….to get to ones goal

    Planet China: how and why one often finds oneself rediscussing points and conditions on which, apparently, an agreement had already been made. Third appointment  with Alessandro Zaccarini.
  • Winning papers

    Mondi’s state-of-the-art paper and industrial bags have won over the judges at Austria’s annual industry Prontissimo awards, which recognises the creative design and printing perfection of unusual printed matter, and Emballissimo, which is awarded to packaging solutions that not only meet high standards of function and design but that are also innovative.
  • RadTech Europe 13

    Now available the program of the conferences and show organized by Radtech October 15th to 17th in Basel (this year is the 25th anniversary of the UV and EB curing technologies and treatment support association).
  • FachPack, sharing knowhow

    From September 24th to 26th in Nuremberg, around 40 thousand professional visitors are expected at FachPack, who will be able to choose between products and services of about 1,500 exhibitors, representing the packaging, technology, finishing and logistics sectors.
  • Cellulose packaging – Data 2012

    FACTS AND FIGURES The Italian paper & cardboard industry continues to be among the most important in Europe, although featuring a contraction in sales and production. Preliminary balances for 2012 and some forecasts.
  • Italian paper: power issues

    The sector figures, announced by Assocarta during the annual assembly on 19th June in Civita (Rome) by its president Paulo Culicchi (see the summary in the box) are worrying.
  • The right contact

    Doing business in the Middle Kingdom: effectively managing relations between agents, customers, suppliers and employees. ItaliaImballaggio will offer a series of reports and analyses by Alessandro Zaccarini (an Italian expert in China-Italy business relations) examining the main negotiation tactics and typical relations models among “local” managers and entrepreneurs. And advice on how to better…
  • Brussels capital of labels

    An international showcase of products, technologies and trends; an opportunity where companies launch their latest new features; walkway for the institutions, starting with the increasingly dynamic Finat; an encounter that nobody wants to miss, defining the profile of a sector, that of labels, continuously growing and evolving.
  • ICE englobes cardboard and looks east

    With a further increase of visitors (+16%) compared to the previous edition of 2011, ICE Europe 2013  registered the highest ever attendance figures achieved by the biennial Bavarian converting show.
  • October everyone off to K

    K for Kunststoff as well as Kautschuk, German for caoutchouc or natural rubber: "The" plastics and rubber triennial show will be back in Düsseldorf next October 16th to 23rd, with all exhibition space (all 19 halls of the German city’s exhibition centre) sold out since June 2012 due to a growing demand.
  • The Turkish print fair is growing

    Held May 17th to 22th, at the Tüyap Fair quarters of Istanbul, the fair Printtek 2013, international showcase of materials and printing technologies, organized in the great country that acts as a hinge between Europe and the Near East.
  • Packaging machine sales: 5.5 billion euros

    Presented on 27th June by Ucima the national survey on the packaging machine builders sector. In the light of the review of the main sector indicators, some exclusive and unexpected data emerge: total turnover 5.5 billion euros, exports 4.6 billion euros, export quota 83%, sales to Italy 941mila euros.

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