Food and beverage

The Gerosa Group, international leader in converting flexible packaging, has developed a new re-lock solution for creating reclosable packaging, capable of guaranteeing at greater length the integrity and freshness of products.

Sustainability and safety are core concepts in all converting processes, first and foremost those involving food products.

Ilip è tra i protagonisti dello spazio Innovationparc Packaging, che Interpack 2014 ha dedicato a Save Food, l’iniziativa lanciata da Messe Düsseldorf in collaborazione con FAO per combattere lo spreco alimentare.

Catalytic Technologies Ltd (CTL) has developed a titanium catalytical technology, that eliminates the use of heavy metals such as antimonium oxide in the production of PET. Already tested in important sector industries, it has aroused the attention around world and won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category.

Italian fine food meets the world of distribution for both Italy and abroad. A year off from Expo 2015, the international food business community will be rendezvousing at Parma 5-8th May, “hosted” by the 17th edition of Cibus, where important changes are prospected.

... light can come in a spraycan? And what about the dispenser for explosives? And the compressed aerosol, the syphon for condiments, the dye applicator? The ADF Awards where technology, marketing and the imagination ran riot at the  latest  Oriex fair-conference.

Krones, leader on the global market of filling and packaging beverages, has bought 100% of HST Maschinenbau GmbH that designs and produces homogenizers and piston pumps for food & beverage.

KNOWING TO EVALUATE Giflex and IRCPack have completed a project defining a method for verifying the adequacy of production processes and legality of raw materials used and supplies a tool for testing cases of contention. Below are the results of the research focused on risk evaluation of toxicological and sensory damage relating to set-off.
Valter Rocchelli, Mara Baronciani

Mineral water bottlers and recyclers have created a voluntary consortium that will effect a closed supply chain in order to recover more PET and produce raw materials with food safe properties. Called Coripet, the new consortium brings to the table original ideas to involve supermarkets and award virtuous consumers.

PRODUCTION AND ENVIRONMENT Arcoplastica carries out research and thinks “sustainably”: for protective atmosphere food packaging it has in fact devised an additivised PET that can replace traditional multilayer materials. The advantages? High performance, max transparency and the great pluspoint that monomaterial containers are easy to recover and recycle.

During next Metpack (Essen, May 6-10th 2014), Henkel specialists will be presenting their innovations for the production, treatment, coating and recycling of cans, tubes, containers and drums.

A stand divided into four zones, each one dedicated to application areas followed over time with dedication, and many new products, characterize the presence of Ishida at Interpack.

Stora Enso and AR Packaging have developed a new type of pack  for chocolates and sweets, declinable in different forms and with different closing systems, dedicated to  consumption on the go.

NORMATIVE FRAMEWORK Cosmetics and food: two apparently quite different sectors that, with changes to the legislation governing the use of packaging materials and the evaluation of components that can affect a product’s intrinsic properties, find themselves sharing numerous points of contact. With contributions from Giancarlo Melato of Cosmetica Italia*, an update on the most important European…

The Quality design of Italian packaging will go on show from 8th to 13th April in Milan. Among the fringe events in the Brera Design District this year, there will in fact be a space set up at the Mediateca Santa Teresa (via della Moscova 28), dedicated to the 15 finalists of the contest organized by the Istituto Italiano Imballaggio. The awards ceremony will be on April 9th.

Technology Made in Sacmi at Interpack where, in a display area of 540 sqm (Hall 8, stand 8AE03), the company will among other things be presenting its compression press for the production of CCM 32 cavity plastic caps, which features a low extrusion temperature and relative advantages in terms of energy consumption and productivity.

The theme agenda of the fair Cibus Tec - Food Pack, the recent joint venture between Fiere di Parma and Ucima dedicated to food packaging and wrapping policy, is beginning to take shape.

SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY CHAIN Revitalizing consumption of fresh produce in largescale retail distribution goes by way of the rationalisation of packaging and logistics along the entire production-consumption chain. The sustainable development of the segment in the conference organized by Ipack-Ima for promoting Fruitech Innovation 2015.

For the fifth consecutive year Acqua Minerale San Benedetto wins the innovation prize “Elected Product of the year 2014”, and the right to use the relative logo, known to consumers in over 35 countries.

The food industry remains stable for the most part during the fourth quarter of 2013, according to a study conducted in December among concerns of the food industry’s Ismea Panel.