Facts and data

The Nomisma Observatory, dedicated to the top 13 Italian-owned pharmaceutical companies, confirms the great potential of the sector, which in the last few years has managed to stand out at global level thanks to its strong vocation for internationalization, innovation and investments.

The RFID sector is constantly growing, also in 2023, the year in which the analysis and research company, IDTechEx, forecasts a market value of 14 billion dollars, easily exceeding the 12.8 billion for 2022.

According to the estimates of the European Pallet Association e.V (EPAL), after the 100 million achieved in 2021, the production of pallets has continued at a brisk pace, reaching a new record incorporating production and repair.

Specialist in secondary packaging, with automated and high-tech packaging systems for the food and non-food sectors: Cama Group is rewriting and renewing the tradition of its origins in the paper converting sector, adopting the criteria of a dynamic company open to the world, with the core in engineering and manufacturing. Present and future of society in the words of Daniele and Annalisa Bellante.

History tells us that it was the Phoenicians who made the first wooden packaging for transporting particularly precious goods. Below we provide information on the different types in use today, and on the 2022 market trend and its sectors of use.

With the launch at interpack of the “WMP - We Make Packaging” brand, conceived by Ucima to promote the Italian packaging machine manufacturing sector at global level, the Italian Employers Association continues to disclose the market trends revealed by the Mecs Study Centre, a summary of which is given here.

Ethics and packaging in 14 moves: over to … the Ambassadors

The 9 winners of the 2023 edition of the Best Packaging competition, dedicated to the theme of Quality Design, received their awards on 21 April during the Milan Design Week.

Digital technologies improve the effectiveness and flexibility of production processes: facts and considerations taken from the third edition of the Industrial Software Forum.

DNV* proposes an approach based on unique definitions and shared measurement systems.

GS1 Italy photographs the principles of circularity in the processes of eight retail leaders.

The 2023 edition of the “Il Cubo” report drawn up by the Ucima-MECS Study Centre has been published: automatic machines record +3.8%, while the forecasts for 2026 are driven by the Asian demand and food.

A meeting dedicated to printing took stock of the Group's strategies with interesting numbers on activities in Italy.

Italians have welcomed 2023 with an unexpected interior serenity, looking to the future with confidence, despite fears and concerns. They are acting with particular rationality, putting individual well-being first, starting from the food they eat. This is the photograph taken by the two surveys of the Coop Research Centre conducted in December 2022: “The year to come” in collaboration with Nomisma and “Planning 2023 and Beyond”.

A website in seven languages and a community of tens of thousands of users: a dissemination and communication project run online.

We have already spoken in detail of SIT Group, but we are continuously discovering new things that require us to update the agenda. Let’s therefore take stock of this organisation which is one of the most dynamic in the world of flexible packaging in Italy.

The finalists in the Best Packaging 2023 Contest, promoted by the Italian Packaging Institute and sponsored by the Fondazione Carta Etica del Packaging (Packaging Ethics Charter Foundation), will be on show during Milan Design Week. The Award ceremony is on 21 April.

With the EU’s objective of making all plastic recyclable and reusable by 2030, companies strive to transition from linear towards a circular economy.

The European Statistics Handbook 2023 and Trend Report 2023 publications by FRUITLOGISTICA offer qualitative data, analyses and an outlook of trends in the fruit and vegetables sector.

According to the Manhattan Associates consultancy firm, 2022 was the year of a return to customary habits, even though the pandemic imposed a number of important changes in lifestyle and consumer habits, first and foremost in the widespread use of e-commerce which today flanks the physical store, forcing the retail industry to find multi-channel solutions.