Industry and strategy

“Orange Club” is the undertaking fielded by Nimax to ensure its customers personalized assistance. Advantages and features of a highly special service.

The CPR System Cooperative (based in Gallo, FE) is an industry organization that produces, handles and recycles plastic packaging (collapsible green plastic crates widely used in retail) and europallets.

Organization, service and technology: the growth of Robatech and the new “melt on demand” system launched at Interpack.

Communication and sharing: these are the ideals on which Antonio Feola, newly elected president of Istituto Italiano Imballaggio for 2014-2016, intends to operate, marking his presidency’s continuity with that of his predecessor Angelo Gerosa.

From June 1st, in line with the combination wished for by Confindustria and specified during the last special assembly, Acimga and Assocomaplast have unified their headquarters and started the process of merging their technical/standards, study and service and information technology offices.

The Swiss concern Interroll, world supplier of intralogistical products and solutions, is reinforcing its presence in Russia thanks to a distribution agreement with Kifato MK. The Russian trading house trades dynamic storage solutions including rolls, motors and drives for transport systems, as well as conveyors and sorters, even though not exclusively.

The contribution of young people; the enterprise as a shared asset; the meaning of internationalization; the orientation of innovation... Reflections of Alfredo Aureli, president of Aetna Group, in an interview at Interpack, in which the entrepreneur explains why it’s reasonable to be optimistic.

CIESD Srl was founded in 1979 as the realization of a dream of Francesco Petrillo, who with it created a family company that is now renowned in Italy as well as internationally, and who has managed to pass on the values that have always distinguished his concern on the market not only to his daughters Manuela and Marica, but also to all CIESD’s employees.

FOCUS ON INNOVATION Shrewd “specialisation in everything”, strong R&D orientation (linerless and anti-counterfeit the latest new features), a paintaking market (and competitor) relations policy capable of ensuring more service to the users. Pilot is experiencing two digit growth on a market that is moving again. This too also in Italy. Elena Piccinelli

Super Film continues to grow as a leading producer of flexible packaging, label and technical films, offering one of the widest product ranges in the field.

As clear as water. Mineral water obviously, if the vision is that of a Sardinian entrepreneur who has placed the specificity and the culture of his local territory as the fulcrum of growth and success. Mauro Solinas views the state of the art of the sector and tells us about Acqua Smeraldina. By Stefano Lavorini

A committee of experts from major multinationals is helping identify the needs of the market and the issues to look at more closely; the offer on show covers the entire processing/packaging/logistics industry, divided according to a rational and straightforward layout with coherent areas and “showcases” dedicated to innovation...

Marchesini Group is now 40 years old and celebrates by opening the gates of its Pianoro works. A showroom, a museum that tells the history of the company, routes that show the new organization of production and many, many machines. Numerous the visitors, including the 150 sector operators that came by plane during Interpack, and great optimism in the words of President Maurizio Marchesini:…

In Italy the economic benefits produced by the recycling of packaging stand at 10 billion euros a year, half of which attributable to the consortium.

The IMA group closed 2013 with excellent results in all the business areas, thanks to the positive run of sales of automatic machines towards the main sectors (pharma and food) and the contribution of the Ilapak Grup, consolidated since the month of August 2013.

The independent company Aventics has been created from the Pneumatics division of Bosch Rexroth: for the first time a big player in the sector has reinvented itself completely, fielding a new structure dedicated exclusively to the pneumatics business.

As part of the expansion of its business structure and with the aim of providing a more professional service to its customers, Fanuc has combined sales and technical support for all its products into a single structure.

The organizational structure of the packaging and process fair aimed at the general market in East Africa has been boosted, further expanding its capacity as an international attraction.

Taghleef Industries (Ti), a leading Bi-oriented Polypropylene Film producer, announce a major investment at Ti Kft in Hungary to upgrade a 8.2 mt BoPP line to 5-layers that will increase Ti Europe current 5-layer film capacity to a total of 60,000 t/y, positioning itself n°1 in Europe.

The SIT group continues to grow in the flexible packaging world. Figures to hand, it is surprising how the San Marino based concern has managed to maintain the balance, year after year, between results and investments, innovation and tradition. The secret?... Energy and intelligence and the capacity to dream with ones eyes open.