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... having something of the marvellous, the true, the plausible and the sublime. Never before have I taken part in a scientific congress so rich and varied in its contents, as well as in terms of focussed participants.
Stefano Lavorini

… Or that is, the changing world of packaging

News and - to paraphrase Expo - brain food from the 30th Giflex Autumn Congress, which hasn’t slowed down and makes a strong case for its commitment to thinking about food and reducing waste. International guests in Milan were treated to a relaxed and impartial dialog from which packaging - and not just of the flexible variety - emerged strengthened in its role as an indispensable tool in the…

“In the wake of the huge success enjoyed by the last edition of IPACK-IMA, that took place last May, and with the change of hands of the share package of the company Ipack-Ima SpA, ceded by Centrexpo SpA to Fiera Milano SpA, Guido Corbella’s mandate as CEO draws to a close…”.
Thus ran the communiqué that, July 16 2015, officialised what was already known by many. A few days before the event, we…

Doing the rounds, one hears a lot of fine talk, but the actual deeds done have been few. Not only in politics. It’s not always like that, obviously.
I am witness to the fact that, in the world of packaging, women and men still act who “do not follow or succumb to the wind, but they create it”, rather, to use the words of Pope Francesco, people who, in their job, do not renounce on wondering…

Let’s try once again to experience wonder, to dwell in the spaces of the unusual, the exceptional, despite the fact that in our globalized and interconnected world, where everything  is consumed in a flash and immediately forgotten, building a “time” for dreams, hopes, feelings no longer seems truly possible. Stefano Lavorini
This might constitute the challenge of Expo Milano that – over and…

… to enable action as a strategic network in favor of the processing and packaging technology producing concerns and, more in general, for the business community on both sides of the Atlantic. This the sense of the partnership agreement between PMMI and Ipack Ima SpA, committed in particular to reinforcing their prospects on new markets.  Luciana Guidotti

Naples, 16 and 17 October. The proceedings of the 19th Giflex autumn congress dedicated to “The future of flexible packaging… Economy, end of lifecycle, distribution” are well summed up in the words with which President Michele Guala lucidly closed the two days in Naples….

“I am not that type of firm”… One might say paraphrasing the title of Lena Dunham’s latest novel. In other word, I am no longer only attention to the organization of the production, the safety of processes and the produce, the quality of the service, but I am also beautiful, colored (it just so happens), fizzy, out of the ordinary, and - if I were a man or a woman - with “ambitions as great as my…

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

... and the consumers have the right to understand it.
by Stefano Lavorini

[…] A life is empty of meaning unless filled with a risky and soaring commitment. Of course there’s only one such type of commitment, and that is work. The other work, invisible work, is the work of the soul, the spirit, talent, whose creations transform the world, making it richer, more just, and more human […] .
Editorial by Stefano Lavorini

Judgement day. It appears now that finally things are being called to account…. which means, speaking of Italy, the accounts obviously don’t balance up.

Editorial by Luciana Guidotti
I have often gone back to HangarBicocca to take an even closer look at Kiefer’s “towers”. In a very remote suburb of Milan, the Hangar is a truly unique and spellbinding place that hosts art and ideas, and where one can still often breathe the beauty of intelligence. It is there in fact that for years exhibitions, installations, works of visual artists of…

Editorial by Stefano Lavorini
«It’s a real pity. A host of ideas, plans and projects, a lot of effort, a lot of work and money… and then, despite all, end results that - to be sincere – we could at best define as not really up to the expectations and the quality of the contents…».
With these words I opened the July/August editorial and, as promised, I will carry on with the question dedicating…

Editorial by Stefano Lavorini
It’s a real pity. A host of ideas, plans and projects, a lot of effort, a lot of work and money… and then, despite all, end results that - to be sincere – we could at best define as not really up to the expectations and the quality of the contents. This in a nutshell is the common picture that best sums up undertakings and events very different from each other.…

Editorial by Stefano Lavorini
Good day to you all, can you hear me well? This is the classic prelude to any assembly meeting, made by the speaker to call attention to what he or she intends illustrating to the audience.
Capturing the attention of the public, communicating facts and evaluations, stimulating reflection is always an undertaking. In particular today, immersed as we are in the…

Editorial by Stefano Lavorini
These times it’s easy to be hyper critical about Italy, beset as it is by rifts that are difficult to heal and heavy contradictions. To say it outright, those who are pettily ironic about our private (and public) vices, have an easy time of it resorting to the many clichés that dog us.

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…

Editorial by Stefano Lavorini
«It is worth living long and suffering the pains that an inscrutable destiny mixes with our days, if at the end we manage to gain clarity within ourselves and if the problem of all our efforts is grasped and clarified in the results of our actions».