Packaging

The AIBO-FCE Association, sponsored by the Istituto Italiano Imballaggio, is organising a technical-scientific conference to divulge the most recent developments in terms of food contact materials and items.

At the end of may more than 1000 exhibitors, 49% of which non French, had booked space at the international exhibition which will take place in Paris from 19th to 22nd November 2012.

Focus on the new technologies shaping the package printing industry. We met Jan Scharfenberg, Technical Manager, DuPont Packaging Graphics, Europe, Middle East and Africa to get news on new technologies that are helping to meet the challenges into the packaging printing industry.

PRB SpA, leading developers of flexible solutions for secondary packaging, launches a complete packaging of new applications, destined to satisfy the most recent market trend, the so-called “packaging on demand”.

System Packaging presents Freebox™, the new process devised by the packaging division of System SpA to create customised packs in real time, for all types of product, starting from flat neutral board and without any waste of raw material.

The new EU Regulation 1169/2011  on the provision of food information to consumers was published in the Official EU Journal dated  22-11.2011.  The final text is the result of years of work within the European institutions and helps to unify the laws of the single countries. The regulation systemically orders the complex field of food labeling, guaranteeing consumers the right to be well informed…

Nearly 9,000 visitors attended the 2011 edition of Interplas, the international plastics industry trade fair, held September 27th to 29th at the NEC in Birmingham, under the new administration of the Rapid News Communications Group. 300 exhibitors at the event registered significant contact levels and in many cases with orders taken on stand.

Last November, the Vicenza based paper group Lucaprint completed the acquisition of the CO-VER Industrial Processes Srl.
The last one is specialized in the production of cases with saw-edges for aluminum foil, baking paper and stretch film for food and with a strong international vocation: the group is in fact supplier to leading film and foil producers in France, the UK and Germany, that…