Opinions

  • It’s easy to say ink

    In addition to printing products... The future today seems to lie in the innovative solutions developed by Sun Chemical to give value to packaging. But you can bet on it, this is just the beginning of a change that is not only technological but cultural, that will affect converters and brand owners. Stefano Lavorini
  • In - formation

    Are the small-to-medium sized concerns mainly to blame for the growth deficit in the Italian economic system? Is the particularly fragmented structure of our manufacturing tissue an element of backwardness or, on the contrary, one of modernity? And yet again…is the delay in efficiency that we suffer compared to other nations to be put down to low levels of work productivity attributed to the…
  • I do what I am

    Editorial by Stefano Lavorini. Take an afternoon of the penultimate day of interpack: sitting in the company of Simona Michelotti at the fine stand of “her” SIT, devised and put together with uncommon enthusiasm and participation for the Duesseldorf fair, I take advantage of a rare moment of calm to sum up the situation together.
    As often occurs, inevitably, we end up by speaking of the paths of…
  • From the general to the specific

    An overview of the contents of the reports presented at the Economic Packaging Conference 2017, Venice, 7-8 June 2017
  • WATCH OUT: that’s the way the world is going!

    Editorial by Stefano Lavorini. Interview with Bernd Jablonowski… Freely expressed considerations on the role, on the strategies in the international field and on the future of specialised fairs.
  • A ognuno il suo (mestiere)

    Editorial by Stefano Lavorini.  What on earth makes me do it? This is the question that many, if not all, set themselves in an attempt to attribute sense to their own life experience.
  • Hats off

    The world of packaging continues, happily, to provide me with some wonderful surprises.
    Because, over and beyond considerations on technology and means of production, one can still continue to recount stories in which Man is the creator and not the artefact, the driver and protagonist of his own destiny.
    Editorial by Stefano Lavorini
  • Now you may tell him your reasons...

    Now you may tell him your reasons / As he seems to me a just and wise man*
    Evaluation of the Economic Packaging Conference, organized by Istituto Italiano Imballaggio in cooperation with Conai in May.
    Editorial by Stefano Lavorini                 
  • Workers’ recreational Club Nostalgia

    Editorial by Stefano Lavorini.
    I look on. No pleasure in recognizing myself as different. None of that dangerous arrogance, that comes from that idea of feeling oneself  in someway a cut above the rest, only because one is capable of glibly observing a comedy, of which we are capable of intuiting both plot and purpose.
  • Free to dream… taking the hurt out of blood testing

    Outside soldiers, heavily armed police, bodyguards, Carabinieri trucks and armour-plated cars; inside, representatives of the national and regional government, pharmaceutical industry managers, press, guests of honour from the institutions and the world of manufacture, some famous names standing by, women and men of the organization busying themselves, everyone decked out elegantly and composed.…
  • Advances in the packaging industry

    ... 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
  • Heads or tails

    … Or that is, the changing world of packaging
  • Feeding the brain

    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…
  • The Times They Are a-Changin’

    “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…
  • Creators rather than artifacts of their own destiny

    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…

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