ItaliaImballaggio January-February 2021

MEAT-TECH changes date and will take place in person from 22 to 26 October 2021 at Fiera Milano Rho.

Not for one's own good but for the good of humanity, the people, the nation…» This challenging statement has been and is widely used to celebrate unconfessable interests and manipulate the economic, cultural and political needs that characterize the functioning of society.. Stefano Lavorini

Industrial production is always on the lookout for quality control systems that use the simplest possible technological solutions that are easy to integrate, innovative and highly flexible, able to manage multi-format and, above all, allow cost savings. Maurizio Cacciamani   

The most recent ANIE publication, entitled “Artificial Intelligence - Technologies and Industrial Applications”, provides pragmatic and directly usable indications with hints of possible operational use..
Maurizio Cacciamani

For the myPNOZ safety module, Pilz has created a complete, automated system, from ordering to commissioning. With the simple and intuitive myPNOZ Creator online tool, customers can configure the solution to their specific requirements and myPNOZ is then delivered in one-off batches, pre-assembled, tested and ready for installation.

Eurocoding proposes Pk52, a desktop label applicator (single or double-sided) for cylindrical containers with diameter between 10 and 110 mm designed for the industrial market, thanks to the excellent construction quality and the strong and resistant structure, mainly in stainless steel aisi304. 

For its new volumetric dosing systems intended for use in the food industry, Karr Italiana Srl issues the Declaration of Suitability for Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (M.O.C.A), in compliance with EC Regulation 1935 /2004 and EC Regulation 2023/2006.

SormaTech, Sorma Group’s optical sorter designed to accurately and precisely sort fruit and vegetables, is now even more advanced and efficient.

Long engaged in the R&D of packaging with a lower environmental impact, Ticinoplast has collaborated with Novamont, SunChemical Group and Uteco Group to develop a new flexible film for food packaging, able to combine recyclability and eco-design requirements with very high performances.

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). 
Milena Bernardi

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.