Primary packaging

Schur Flexibles becomes adapa. The new name derives from “adaptive packaging” and underscores one of the company’s core values, of adapting to a changing world.

After a positive 2020, with performance severely affected by the covid emergency, the sector is finding a new order with improving data and two key words: wellness and sustainability.

With a long history behind it (in fact, one has to go back to the 1800s to find the first traces of it), metal packaging - in steel and aluminum - confirms good market positions. Numbers and trends 2021.

The 2022 edition of Ipack-Ima ended with a surprising success for all the PFM Group companies, with more than 700 accredited visitors coming to the booth over 4 days of the fair to touch first hand the technological innovations on display.

Facts, figures and industry dynamics in 2021 in Italy: gradual recovery of production and consumption after an anomalous 2020. Focus on packaging trends.

For the first time at the show, Goglio is presenting its solutions for liquid food packaging in a wide variety of formats and materials at Drinktec. The appointment is in Munich from September 12th to 16th, Hall C4 booth 304.

A three-year period of strong acceleration is emerging for the seven business communities surveyed by Ipack-Ima Business Monitor 2022, developed in collaboration with MECS.

A survey carried out among the operators belonging to the community gathered around ALL4PACK Emballage Paris 2022 offers a snapshot of the sector’s environmental sensitivity.

Thanks to a partnership between Seda International Packaging Group, WWF Italia and Comieco, in the #JovaFoodGood villages set up for the occasion, disposable paper food and drinks containers and packaging produced by the Italian multinational will be used by thousands of people.

Walki is answering to the growing demand for frozen food by expanding its portfolio of recyclable materials.

Technical flexibility, an approach to the market that expresses concreteness and foresight for Volpak, part of Coesia Group: with an established presence in the food and non-food sectors, it is thinking about repositioning the Enflex brand in the pharma & healthcare sphere.

The industry’s revenues grew by 5.5% compared to 2020, breaking the previous record set in 2019. Ucima’s newly appointed chairman Riccardo Cavanna commented: “This was an extraordinary result, but the shortages are making themselves felt in 2022”.

Since 1973, Omag has been designing and manufacturing customized sachet and single-serving stick packaging machines dedicated to the food, cosmetics, chemical and pharmaceutical industries.

Goglio and IMA announce a global business alliance for coffee powder and coffee bean packaging: we talked about it with Luciano Sottile (Goglio) and Nicola Panzani (IMA Coffee).

Volpak, a company specialising in horizontal form-fill-seal solutions for the pouch-type packaging industry, is continuing to expand its flexible packaging portfolio with the signing of two strategic partnerships.

The vitamin mineral water soft drink line has been given a facelift with a fresh, modern design to emphasise the product’s benefits.

Two years ahead of the European directive, in April the company rolled out tethered caps on FuzeTea bottles with the aim of simplifying recycling.

The Varese-based group is continuing its growth trajectory with the acquisition of the Italian company Supercap and the Mexican firm Corchomex, both of which operate in the field of innovative and sustainable T-shaped stoppers

LVMH signed a multi-year capacity reservation agreement to purchase sustainable carbon-negative materials from Origin Materials