Facts and data

A journey of the senses in discovery of unique products: Luxoro opens its own exhibition space at Paper&People, Europe’s largest graphic paper showroom.

Pixartprinting content creation continues, this time touching down in Berlin to invite communications and print specialists to discover the German capital’s underground spaces.

The close of 2016 saw a 3.2% rise in production of packaging (in t), building on the +2.3% logged the previous year. The trend is driven by the domestic market, exports having stalled

A four-month survey of the packaging industry as of May 2017. The information relating to the global economy is based on Confindustria and Prometeia data.

A detailed look at product characteristics, packaging types and considerations on the Italian market, with notes on recycling.

Lumson consolidates its  leadership in prestige makeup after signing the agreement for the gradual integration of Leoplast into the Lumson group.

On Wednesday, June 7, the assembly of the Italian national association of builders of machines and moulds for plastics and rubber manufacturing approved the change of name proposal put forward by President Alessandro Grassi, with an eye to renewal, without though omitting keywords such as “association, machines, plastic”.
Thus Assocomaplast becomes Amaplast, featuring an even more synthetic…

Technology and innovation which go together with a tradition lasting more than 50 years: interpack 2017 with Ronchi Mario SpA was about physical machinery and digital business.

We already announced it in the June issue and in our webmagazine: the packaging and wrapping machine sector continues to turn out record figures. We have had further confirmation during the press conference organized 26 June at Baggiovara (MO), alongside Ucima’s annual assembly, attended by a hundred or so heads and top managers from machine builder companies. Choice titbits of news offering…

The Italian industrial processing and packaging industry is in good health, generating an annual turnover of over 44 billion euros, with future prospects that open up to interesting business opportunities, thanks also to the high propensity to export. Among the pitfalls perceived by companies, the competitive and macroeconomic scenario, commodity prices, labour costs and taxation. This is the…

The fair interpack continues to mark an ineluctable time boundary for the packaging world, taking advantage of the opportunity to sum up years of work and development.

Sanction Decree no. 29 of February 2017 can be considered a turning point for an entire industrial sector (film manufacturers, converters and producers of food contact packaging). The perspective of a sector veteran (not without some bones to pick) opens an interesting discussion. Responses and further contributions welcome. Armando Vaccaro

Market trends and new means of distribution and packaging of various pharmaceutical products (considering only prescription and OTC drugs sold in pharmacies).  Plinio Iascone

Data and facts on the youngest packaging type currently on the market, which enjoys good health with the exception of some minor setbacks having mostly to do with less than stellar performance of certain target sectors.   Barbara Iascone

Sense, nature and values of an industrial reality that is “very” Italian. Velleda Virno tells of the investments made in the family company in the name of quality, efficiency and future projects. And for his love for his home territory. Stefano Lavorini

“The present is the indivisible limit that separates the past from the future” (1). This seems to be a conviction of Lameplast Group’s Enrico Folchini, the new CEO of the Modena based leader in the preparation, filling and packaging of pharmaceuticals, medical and cosmetic devices, who is working on having his company make a qualitative leap. Stefano Lavorini
(1) Henri Bergson, philosopher

The Marchesini team (over 300 managers and technicians) and the many guests of the Bolognese company experienced the fair days under an imposing red structure: A sort of “technological” portal, visible from all corners of the hall, capable of accommodating people, ideas and many machines.

Davide Morten, head of Robatech Italia, illustrates the leitmotifs of Swiss multinational’s participation at interpack, which it considers the ideal venue for offering recent technologies and new ideas that make gluing a means for achieving safety, efficiency and productivity.

Announced in May the acquisition of Eidos SpA by the German company Novexx Solutions (part of the Possehl Group), which will strengthen its position in the ID market.

CEFLEX is a new project organized by a consortium of European companies representing the entire value chain of flexible packaging.