Facts and data

Amaro Lucano changes its cladding: thanks to Nuceria Group, a sleeve d’auteur interprets its history, flavour and quality, reaching the hearts of consumers.

In the home and in the restaurant industry, can packaging be an ally in waste prevention? What do Italians think? The findings of the latest Waste Watcher* study on the relationship between waste and packaging were previewed at Green Week 2018.

Authentic, natural foods that become key ingredients in personal care products as well: beauty & food is the latest trend in Italian consumer goods. The stars of this show are unquestionably almonds and oats, as revealed by the Osservatorio Immagino survey of 11,500 products conducted by Nielsen/GS1 Italy.

Metsä Board, a leading European producer of premium fresh fibre paperboards, is launching a new eco-barrier paperboard, developed especially for food service use with a bio-based and biodegradable special barrier treatment that is fluorochemicals-free, which represents an alternative to fossil-based barriers.

As ever a symbol of Italian coffee, Kimbo has earned an important recognition dedicated to food products: the Quality Award 2017, a prize conceived by Marketing Consulting, which involves a large sample of consumers in tastings tests conducted by independent laboratories.

The first 100% certified Italian cola now also has its glass cladding: thanks to Verallia whose task, in the Molecola project, went beyond the provision of the glass version of the bottle for the Ho.Re.Ca channel, adapting their production processes to a creative idea developed for another material (PET).

From a study made  by Facile.it the drive to spend ever less emerges.
(Source European Food Agency- www.efanews.eu)

Produced with 100% Italian milk, the product is already available both at the refrigerated counter and on the long-life UHT shelf: Granarolo G+ is the first and only “milk drink” in Italy with 30% less sugar than milk.

The SAXOPRINT® web printer has perfected its “easy box” with new functionalities, which enables the creation and printing of  folding cases, boxes and cartons for shipping even more effectively: customers can in fact examine the customized packaging, displaying it in 3D. Soon it will also be possible to view the dimensions directly on the product.

The transport packaging par excellence, wood packaging is widely used throughout the manufacturing industries, whose performance influences the growth trends of this packaging type considerably. Consolidated 2016 data and projected end of year values for 2017.

With total production of 10.5 billion tubes in 2017, the member companies of etma - the European tube manufacturers association -  continued their path of growth and achieved a year-on-year increase in production of 2%.

Turnover for 2017 of over 24 billion euros (+1.6% on 2016); the domestic market has grown by 2.6% but... raw material costs have increased. The industry calls for stability  (source:www.federazionecartaegrafica.it)

Brexit, diversification and intelligent labeling: These the subjects under discussion at the fourth edition of the FINAT European Label Forum (ELF), scheduled Dublin 6 to 8 June.

For some years now CMI Industries has been going through a phase of growth and renewal, both in the technological field - thanks to the constant innovative research that is part of the firm’s DNA - as well as in its quality as a Group, in constant expansion in terms of product sectors and markets. Focus on the Beauty Tech Division and on the new brands.

February 9 2018 SATO Holdings Corporation - of which ALTECH srl is an Italian Premier Business Partner - announced changes to its corporate leadership.

Leader in the field of automatic packaging machines for tobacco products, GIMA TT closed 2017 with 151.8 million euro in earnings (+51.2% compared to the 100.4 million reported by the company on 31 December 2016), with an export share exceeding 72%, with excellent results in Europe and Asia. The company also fared very well on the domestic market, with 13% growth.

Exceeded mid-March 2018, there are only a few months left until the expiry of the transition period towards the new UNI EN ISO 9001: 2015 standards for the quality management system and UNI EN ISO 14001: 2015 for the environmental management system (the deadline to complete the certification passage to the new standard is September 15, 2018).

The “A Circular Future with Plastics” convention will be held on 24th and 25th May 2018, in Milan, where the Unionplast Rubber Plastics Federation (Italian association of plastic converters) and EuPC - European Plastics Converters (the association of European companies) will bring over 250 plastics converters from all over Europe.

On the occasion of the opening of MECSPE, Senaf (organizer of the show focused on manufacturing 4.0 at Fiere di Parma, 22-24 March 2018) announced that it has given the Department of Design of the Milan Polytechnic an assignment.

Veolia, international company that operates in waste management, has recently launched a program for the collection and recycling of used coffee cups, in collaboration with some of the major chains of coffee shops in the United Kingdom, where every day 7 million coffees are consumed in disposable cups.