Facts and data

After 2023, which saw the Italian packaging sector close with a decidedly negative balance for all trends, 2024 should close with different trends, resolving the situation.

Market data on the production, distribution, packaging and consumption of fresh fruit and vegetable products in Italy.

100% recycled packaging and a growing use of rPET in bottles are among Assobibe’s main objectives, also contained in Unesda’s Manifesto 2024/2029.

An overview of what is defined as “complex structure packaging”. We here present production and turnover data for 2023 in Italy, analysed in July 2024.

Logimatic is a company providing production services for the mechanical industry, specialised in the construction of automatic machines in outsourcing. It will be present at Ipack Ima 2025 with an offer that ranges from packaging to automation solutions.

For Cama, the secondary packaging specialist with highly technological automated packaging systems for the food and non-food sectors, AR is today a standard solution that guarantees efficiency.

«A concise tool to represent all the digital skills, technologies and solutions available through our members in order to clearly position within the associative system and related institutions (DHI and EDIH, competence centres, innovation hubs, …) the coverage of the digital world expressed by ANIE Automazione through its enterprises».

The photograph presented by the Coop 2024 Report – Consumption and lifestyles of Italians today and tomorrow – shows how the holistic dimension of food continues to prevail in Italians’ purchasing decisions, also with a view to environmental wellbeing. Store brands and discount stores dominate. Packaging has a central role in the sustainability paradigm.

In 2023, Innova Group recorded a turnover which was down 20% due to the fall in the cost of paper. This figure did not, however, affect profit margins, in line with the results of the previous year; profits, moreover increased by 1 million euros and growth in shareholders’ equity by 12 million.

The Sun Chemical’ fourteenth sustainability is out. The release emphasizes the business’ continued prioritization of sustainability leadership and commitment to social responsibility of the global manufacturer of inks, pigments and paints for printing, graphics and converting.

Increasingly less predictable demand, increasingly “green” products requested by the market and recurring supply chain issues are forcing manufacturing companies to review their production systems with various strategies, technologies and business models in order to rapidly adapt to the market while optimizing costs and reducing environmental impact.

The analysis examines the glass packaging sector, both hollow and tube types. With regards to hollow glass packaging, the subdivision used by Imballaggio in Cifre (Packaging in Figures) and shared with the Assovetro glass category Association, is organized into bottles, jars and small bottles and vials.

In the first six months of 2024, the Italian wine market contracted due to the persistence of economic uncertainty. This result was compensated by exports, which were positive especially in the USA and UK. Among Italy’s competitors, France is suffering while Australia is recovering.

In summary form, the 2023 market data collected in Italy, numbers and information on types of packaging.

Case study no.1
Here we present a brief description of the first of the five business cases taken into consideration by the Sant’Anna School.

Environmental sustainability and the circular economy are essential factors for reducing ecological impact and using resources responsibly. Strategies, technologies and business models for companies.

In this article we analyse alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages produced in Italy and imported and exported and, finally, those consumed in our country. This last parameter takes into consideration all the beverages distributed through the different sales channels: mass retail, Ho.Re.Ca, online sales, etc.

100% recycled packaging and a growing use of rPET in bottles are among Assobibe’s main objectives, also contained in Unesda’s Manifesto 2024/2029.

According to the MECSPE Research Centre, there are encouraging signals from industry, thanks particularly to the boost from the Transition 5.0 Plan approved in January 2024, and inserted into the NRRP framework.

Solutions for the management of product and process data, digital twins and intelligent management systems to optimise operations and the supply chain and for adapting rapidly to the market with increasingly personalised products.