Industry and strategy

CONVERTING Innova Group reports the best performance of its history and focuses on the domestic market, where it hopes to step up productivity with the help of an effective combo of investments in technology, costs control and harnessing synergies within the group.

A first step bringing us closer to East Afripack 2014 (Nairobi, 9th to 12th September 2014, organized by Ipack-Ima SpA). With the aim to sensitize the local business community, on 3rd and 4th June this year Kigali (Rwanda) hosted the first international conference entitled "Sustainable Packaging for Competitiveness and Development of SME's in the EAC Region".

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…

ASTER is the consortium for innovation set up by Regione Emilia Romagna, by 6 Italian regional universities, by the CNR and ENEA and by the sector associations. It stands as a landmark for favouring company access to innovation, mainly via the coordination of the Hitech Network, a network of public and private research laboratories serving the entrepreneurial fabric. To better clarify purposes…

The Marchesini Group continues to grow and invest, and also confirms good forecasts for 2013.

Editorial by Stefano Lavorini
“There is as much difference between us and ourselves, as there is between us and the others”
Michel de Montaigne, filosofo e scrittore francese, 1533-1592
            
If it is true that there is strength in numbers, what for a small firm might be impossible is not so if one groups together… This is the essence of the matter. This the sense and the objective of…

Objective: innovation for competitivity The most important card to exit the crisis will be played in investment in R&D. We focus attention on structures within Italy, particularly in the area of Emilia, that offer companies suitable tools to effectively innovate and also to access funds. Focus on CRIT, IR4I, Aster. by Riccardo Ceredi

B&R are inaugurating the Italian Automation Academy, a structure entirely dedicated to training, and thus they are “writing” a telling story of commitment in favour of a serious approach to automation. The sense and the scope of this undertaking is rounded off by the network of relations and agreements with Academies, Research Centers and obviously, the market. L.G.

Joining up with the Swiss Group will help expand the range of products that IMA can offer in the field of food packaging.

Exports can lift Italy out of the shoals of crisis. And, of all sectors, manufacturing has the best chance of success, as long as this country stops tolerating various kinds of parochialism and looks increasingly beyond its own borders. Some points for reflection from the Internationalization Forum Made in Italy organized by Messe Frankfurt.

When the reading of a biography (that of Steve Jobs) offers food for thought to also help lay down good practices.

After experiencing +15% growth during the last quarter, the Pavan group foresees another 10% growth for the end of the year, both in terms of volumes and of profits. And all this by taking advantage of the synergies of an offering that covers the entire food processing chain.

 
GOING AGAINST THE TIDE Innova Group celebrates the anniversary of IBO Ondulati and a balance for 2011 that despite market difficulties shows growth in turnover, profits and cash flow. First of all, thanks to continuous investments in the streamlining and strengthening of production.

Sanctions and payments in Iran
The restrictive measures adopted in economic and trade relations with Iran can be traced to Resolution 1737, implemented by the United Nations Security Council in 2006, and subsequent amendments.

Despite the diminuitive, “small sales” are in fact a strategic field of enormous importance.

TRENDS AND PROSPECTS The turnover for 2011 of Italian packaging and wrapping machine manufacturers exceeds 4,300 million euros. Caution in the forecasts for 2012. The need to act as a network, to support business in the coming future.

ON DEMAND Pixartprinting powers up its label web-to-print service, investing in dedicated latest generation equipment. Objective: ensure flexibility and maximum quality on both very short runs as well as with larger lots while printing on any material, with on-time delivery and “web” type costs.

We continue the discussion started in the "Crystal Ball" in May, on models of sales effectiveness.

The Packaging Sector in the United Arab Emirates has prospered from the expansion, diversification and growth of the national economy, which is one of the largest emerging economies in the Middle East and Africa and ranks second to the economy of Saudi Arabia.

Acceleration by Stefano Lavorini
Question and answer session with… Gianmario Ronchi