Industry and strategy

The 2016 SME Global Strategy Observatory (presented in Milan on June 9th) identified, among the more than 40 thousand Italian manufacturing and service companies, around 7,100 companies that registered a turnover between 20 and 250 million euros in the period from 2010 to 2014.

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Evaluation of the Economic Packaging Conference, organized by Istituto Italiano Imballaggio in cooperation with Conai in May.
Editorial by Stefano Lavorini                 

In order to ensure maximum integration and traceability, Nimax offers its services to the market as a sole supplier, strengthening its regional presence and growing in competencies with two new divisions: “Labelling” and “Control & Safety”. At Pharmintech we met with marketing manager Stefano Paolucci and sales director for Italy Andrea Noera, who spoke on behalf of a successful business that…

Messe Düsseldorf’s interpack alliance and IPACK-IMA are now sharing a platform in Nairobi.

Laminati Cavanna or how to live intelligently from one day to the next… The history of the company (and of its founder), a rare if not unique industrial concern specialised in the “strange” job of laminating flexible film on contract, teaches us just this.

The column dedicated to Italian companies operating in the packaging with a keen eye to the possibilities of growth and development abroad is born out of the collaboration between ICE-Agenzia and Edizioni Dativo. The network of ICE offices abroad will provide a regular update on the development of the packaging in the short/medium term in selected countries.

The Dierre SpA company of Spezzano (MO) is expanding to create a new company: Dierre Robotics Srl, which, relying on the expertise of qualified professionals, will focus on the development, production and marketing of Cartesian, “desktop” and “gantry” robots.

Rockwell Automation (NYSE:ROK) announced today that its board of directors has elected Blake D. Moret, a 30-year veteran of the Company, as president and chief executive officer, effective July 1, 2016.

Specializing in automation for the ceramic industry and in packaging, logistics, intralogistics, electronics and material handling high performance, the International System SpA group sold a stake of 60% of System Logistics SpA to Group Krones (Neutraubling, D)

“Many solutions, a single partner” has been the leitmotif of Prl Tecnosoft’s business for 20 years, a period of time during which the concern has become a unique point of reference, capable of offering integrated end-to-end service in mechanics, electrics, pneumatics and software.

All-round innovation - of products and services -  at Interroll, which is investing in quality, research and education at its multifunctional site in the town of Baal, where high performance drum motors are manufactured and where new ideas become technology.

With a three-day event dedicated to its customers and suppliers, Coveme (processing of polyster films for industrial applications) has unveiled a new production line in Gorizia that combines the concern’s years of experience and research alongside its partners with a high level of added value.

The partnership between Ipack-Ima and the Contract Packaging Association - CPA (representing contract packaging for operators in the USA and North America).

Protagonist on the global market as a supplier of labels and packaging, on March 23 last CCL Industries announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire the assets of Checkpoint Systems Inc. (NYSE: CKP), which will become a division of CCL and will be able to invest in hardware, software and consumables, creating a single offering for efficient inventory management of brands and retailers.

Headquartered in the province of Novara, the Colines Holding group (GCH) - builder of machines and lines for processing plastics, as well as film extrusion systems - has finalized a business branch lease agreement aimed at the acquisition of a branch of the concern Torninova di Bastia Umbra (PG).

Leader company dedicated to industrial automation and information, Rockwell Automation (NYSE: ROK) announced that it has agreed to purchase MagneMotion, a leading manufacturer of intelligent conveying systems, used across a broad range of industrial applications (including automotive and general assembly, packaging and material handling).

The growth trend of the Interroll Group, a worldwide leading manufacturer of components in the intralogistics sector, was confirmed by the figures for 2015 in CHF (the reporting currency).

In order to drive new innovation and consolidate their global flexible packaging market presence, Dow Chemical and Nordmeccanica Spa (manufacturer of machines for coating, lamination and metalization) have signed an agreement representing the evolution of work the two concerns have carried out together over the past two years.

The excellent performance abroad is matched by the sensation that the domestic market is recoverying

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