The opportunity to look at things with a touch of optimism came to me thanks to the casual discovery of a personal and professional life plan that aims to discover different and possible forms of happiness, interviewing women and men throughout the six continents.
At the end of a process that has seen the involvement of the European Parliament, the Industry and Environment commissions, the European Council, the Trilogue phase between these two European institutions, the Commission and finally once more the Parliament, the new Packaging Regulation was definitively approved at the end of April 2024.
The history of Lavazza, the global coffee producer and sector leader, is permeated with a structured approach to sustainability that goes beyond “simple” solutions and embraces the complexity of the question. We here report our conversation with Francesca Squillace, who takes stock of regulations and consumer habits.
Era meglio morire da piccoli/ suicidarsi col cavaturaccioli/ soffocarsi con tanti batuffoli/ che vedere ‘sto schifo da grandi/…
(It was better to die young/ to commit suicide with a corkscrew/ or suffocate yourself with lots of cotton balls/ than to see this crap when you grow up/…)
“Flessibile, un packaging da raccontare” (Flexible, a packaging worth talking about) was the title of Giflex’s Annual Conference, held in Rome with the presence of almost 300 participants. Promoted with the support of Coim, Ipack-Ima 2025 and Rossini, it offered an opportunity for exchange and updating on vital issues for the sector.
Gabriele Buratti “Buga” was born in Milan on 8 August 1964. When he was a boy, he used to watch his father and grandfather, both master jewellers in the Milan craft tradition, working material.
La storia siamo noi, (We are history) sang Francesco De Gregori. History is a catalogue of facts, of actions performed by human beings, and not abstract dates and concepts.
«The PPWR marks a turning point for the paper sector: while the regulation imposes challenges, it also opens significant doors for our technological solution ».
Elisa Cella, born in Genoa in 1974, she’s an artist with a scientific academic background (she studied Mathematics in the faculty of Sciences of the State University of Milan, after obtaining the high school diploma in scientific studies, Ed.) and has always worked at the crossroads between biology and art.
Peter Hide 311065 (Franco Crugnola) nasce a Varese nel 1965. Creativo di professione, concepisce e progetta con la moglie il primo e-book della storia nel 1992 (INCIPIT).
“State contenti, umana gente” al quia;/chè, se potuto aveste veder tutto,/mestier non era parturir Maria” (“Be content, then, all you mortals, with the quia,/for could you, on your own, have understood,/there was no need for Mary to give birth”).
A year has now passed since Giacomo Mariotti, Country Manager, told ItaliaImballaggio about Jaka Robotics’s first steps in the Italian market, in which the Chinese producer of collaborative robots with its European headquarters in Germany, is today a recognized and consolidated brand thanks to important strategic partnerships and a constant growth in market share.
Paolo Maggi, chairman of Tetra Pak South Europe tells ItaliaImballaggio about the latest news of the food processing and packaging multinational, focusing on the offer that the company has developed with particular attention towards environmental impact and food safety, points of strength of Tetra Pack products and technologies.
In its commitment to the Green Transition, if it wants to appear sincere, the world of packaging should perhaps take a wider view, and come to terms with the great moral and social issues of our society and, as Vittorino Andreoli seems to suggest, also the crisis of Civilisation which is in progress.
“We believe that the right approach is a constant increase in recycling combined with a savings logic, and these are issues in which Ferrarelle has been investing in R&D for some time, for the development of new materials and solutions that today make it possible to have a completely recycled bottle in PET”.
