Proposals for the confectionery sector

Packaging with ever-changing shapes and a renewed focus on sustainability: these are the emerging needs of the confectionery world, to which ACMA is responding with constant research on materials and the development of cutting-edge packaging technologies, which will be on show at IPACK-IMA.

Since the early decades of the last century, ACMA (a Coesia company) has followed the confectionery sector with attention and competence, ensuring an essential contribution to the innovation and evolution of this industrial sector.  

The Confectionery market is, moreover, a flourishing one which - according to Market Study Report forecasts - should reach 2,000 billion dollars in 2025, with an average annual growth rate of 3.8%. Among the transversal themes that, for some time now, have been influencing its trend, there is undoubtedly that of sustainability in the broadest sense: the confectionery industry is, in fact, increasingly attentive to containing its environmental impact and providing consumers with guarantees of safety, in relation to the origin and production conditions of raw materials.

Sustainability Lab and Material Gate: a concrete commitment

In terms of packaging, the confectionery market is moving towards the reduction of plastic-based or multilayer materials. ACMA is making great efforts to face this epochal transition and is doing so thanks to the Sustainability Lab. The aim of the project - which is attracting the attention of some of the most important producers of materials in the world as well as of the confectionery industry - is to verify the behavior and machinability of new generation materials, both for flowpack and wrapping, with particular attention to those where twisting can create criticalities.

Through the Material Gate (a unit created ad hoc by ACMA engineers), tests are carried out on materials of any kind, to prove their performance on a twisted wrapper. The challenge is to understand their structural limits, guiding researchers to develop solutions that can guarantee the best possible performance during machine operation. The ultimate goal is to maintain the high wrapper quality and production speeds that are hallmarks of ACMA machines, thus supporting customers in the transition to alternative materials to plastics and minimizing the effects on fleet productivity.