Facts and data

Exports at +4% drive turnover into positive territory for the packaging machinery manufacturers sector. Prospects of stability for 2021, but the increase in the costs of raw materials, components, and sea freight rates is worrying.

Aliplast, a Hera Group company specialising in the production of plastic materials, and Panariagroup, a leading ceramic tile producer, have launched a virtuous and highly successful partnership.

Opened in Milan in December 2020, MADE is the Competence Center dedicated to digital factory technologies, born from the joint work of 48 partners - 43 private companies, 4 universities, 1 public body - with the support of the Ministry for Economic Development.

Sealed Air Corporation (NYSE: SEE) today announced its participation in the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)’s Innovation Accelerator, an initiative that convenes the brightest minds in science and technology to develop and scale high-potential solutions for ending hunger worldwide. 

With the aim of evolving towards an even greater management of its resources, without betraying its imprint as a family company, from 1 January 2021 Cavanna Group has formalized an important change at the top.         

Netcomm and TuttoFood Live Forum. The acceleration of eCommerce induced by the pandemic is continuing even after the lockdown, consolidating the new buying habits. Food is among the leading segments with 36% of eShoppers that continue to privilege the digital channels of the large-scale retail trade (+96.4% in packaged consumer goods). 
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According to interim balances issued by Ucima’s MECS-Centro Studi, and as widely expected, in 2020 the surge of the Italian automatic machine manufacturers’ sector slowed (-5% overall turnover), but entrepreneurs look to the future with confidence. Matteo Gentili, President of Ucima: «We have a consolidated order portfolio and excellent 4.0 technologies, which will allow us to stay the…

As part of the Brand Revolution Lab* initiative, the packaging for the Acetomodena White Condiments line was born from the collaboration between the Lateral Creative Hub agency and O-I Glass (world leader in the production of glass packaging). 

In the Anagni plant in Lazio, Alpla Group  has invested over five million euros in an extrusion plant for recycled PET suitable for foodstuffs, obtained from post-consumer PET bottles.

Il progetto AG & Co KGaA’s Social Plastic Ecosystem di Henkel, in collaborazione con Plastic Bank, ha conquistato il Diamond Award, la più alta onorificenza dei Packaging Innovation Awards 2020 by Dow.

Principles, drivers, business models and measurement.
A book by Natalia Marzia Gusmerotti, Marco Frey, Fabio Iraldo

This report provides a cross-section of the trends in the sectors of the manufacturing industry where the consumption of packaging is most intense - and their consequent evolution - divided into food and non-food macro-areas. 

Trend of the sector in Italy and focus on the types of packaging of industrial products: final data 2019 and evolutionary hypothesis 2020. 

After closing a year 2020 that is really to forget due to double-digit decreases for all main economic indicators, the Italian capital goods manufacturing industry is ready for recovery, which is expected already from 2021.

Pelliconi - producer of closures for the food & beverage industry - is ready to offer the market a new digital printing service, which allows for the creation of customized closures even in very small batches, thus subverting the traditional logic of economy of scale that governs a process optimized for production in large quantities.        

Easysnap Technology has led to the creation of an exclusive format of semi-rigid single-dose packages for liquid and creamy substances, based on the principle of “one hand opening” (they can be opened with one hand in a completely intuitive way). 

Made with 34% of biaxially oriented polypropylene film produced and regranulated in-house, ECO+tape by Irplast is an adhesive tape that combines functional advantages (strong tack and long-lasting adhesiveness) with a green component: -18% of CO2 in the atmosphere compared to a standard BOPP tape.

The new SIT plant in San Marino holds more than one surprise in store: technologically advanced, it is a place where you can breathe enthusiasm (not to be confused with recklessness), where everything is planned with care and skill, marking the path for future developments of the group in flexible packaging.

According to the Green Economy Report published by CONAI, recycling led to a reduction of more than 4.3 million tonnes of CO2 emissions in Italy in 2019, the equivalent of 10,000 return flights between Rome and New York. The primary energy saved is capable of meeting the annual electricity requirements of 6 million Italian households. The focus is now on packaging eco-design and incentives for…

For many years the Massilly Group has been offering various types of metal packaging, designed and produced for all product sectors, from food to household, from industrial to luxury.