ItaliaImballaggio January-February 2025

I can’t begin this editorial, my first as director of ItaliaImballaggio, without thanking Stefano Lavorini, who in 1994 – guided by taste, intuition and a heightened (especially social) sensitivity, founded this magazine, and made it great thanks to the fundamental help of Luciana Guidotti, co-director, and a close-knit team.

From the recent Academy to attention towards circularity, from new technological investments to staff training, ItaliaImballaggio has met the chairwoman for an overview of the company

This measure is not merely an opportunity to reduce consumption and emissions but a strategic programme for enhancing Italian excellence through innovation and sustainability

The interview with Aliplast CEO Michele Petrone, at the Milano Beauty Week 2024

Versatile and high-performance, the colour linear video cameras officially launched by Basler Italy at the beginning of December 2024 embody technology capable of transforming inspection and sorting processes in various sectors.

We met international operators in the sector at Luxe Pack 2024, the high-end showcase held every year at the Grimaldi Forum in Munich

Promoted by ANIE Automazione and organised by Messe Frankfurt Italia, the Italian Machine Vision Forum dedicated to industrial vision systems was held at Alzano Lombardo (Bergamo) with broad participation

Monthly showcase of packaging solutions to communicate, protect and distribute commonly used products

The four-monthly monitoring report on the packaging supply chain. Data referring to December 2024. General economic scenario and analysis of manufacturing activity with the consequent evolution of the packaging sector

The answer lies in a study that CONAI commissioned to the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, with the aim of investigating how an idea of packaging innovation is conceived and developed

How and to what extent, quarter after quarter, is the presence of environmental labelling on products for sale in Italian supermarkets and hypermarkets changing? The sixth edition of the IdentiPack monitoring centre report, of which we report an extract (data collected in June 2024), gives us some answers

Markem-Imaje launches remote and on-premise digital hardware services aimed at increasing performance efficiency

Drawn up by FINAT in collaboration with AWA, Alexander Watson Associates, the report on the performance of the European labelling industry in the third quarter of 2024 shows a good recovery after 2023 and interesting prospects for growth in 2025

Held on Friday 22 November in Milan, Gipea’s annual conference offered an outline of the self-adhesive label market trend at Italian and European level. Plus data from the 13th Economic Monitoring Centre and technical and legislative updates

FaithInNature is a Scottish cosmetics company and the first in the world to recognise the legal rights of Nature inside its BoD. It’s a revolutionary business model which sees Nature as a partner rather than a resource to be exploited.

The major trends which, according to Euromonitor International and Mintel, will affect the beauty sector in 2025 and beyond. Health and longevity will drive the choices of global consumers, attracted by natural and planet-friendly ingredients. Biotechnological innovations and AI are key tools for personalised beauty.

The biggest structure in the Food Valley dedicated to new food processing and packaging technologies

Growth stages and investments of a fast and flexible company in production, storage, management and distribution of primary packaging - now also secondary paper packaging - designed for the nutraceutical, cosmetic, food and pharmaceutical markets

The winners of the Conai Contest were announced on 14 November during the “L’Economia del future” (Economy of the future) festival organized by the Corriere della Sera newspaper and hosted at the Triennale Milano

The trade fair in Parma to be held from 13 to 15 May: focus on AI, big data and security