Facts and data

From January 1st, 2014, Burgo Group will incorporate the activities of its “Mosaico” Specialty Papers division into its fully proprietary company Mosaico Srl.

LIC Packaging SpA (integrated paper converter based in Verolanuova, BS) has acquired shares of Majrani Group (products and services for in store promotion, Geneva, CH, with European operational headquarters in Peschiera Borromeo, MI) and creates an industrial group worth 65 million euro with 250 employees.

Ishida Europe has invested in excess of £1 million in a dedicated Snacks Demonstration area at its UK manufacturing headquarters in Woodgate, Birmingham.

Quarterly packaging industry observatory. Situation as of late November 2013.

After the contractions recorded in 2012 in production (-5.1%), domestic demand (-4.6%) and foreign trade (exports -5%, imports stable at low levels) 2013 shows a downtrend, even though featuring a degrowth in progressive abatement.

EU Regulation 1169/11 names e-commerce and clarifies what (and how) to write in the ingredients list and nutritional table, how to understand place of origin and the responsibility of operators... the new European regulations on food labeling as read by GS1 Italy| Indicod-Ecr.

Christmas morning through the eyes of a few important film directors.
Happy Holidays.

Encouraging figures for the Italian automatic machine sector, confirmed by the reports by the Ucima Study Center: forecast end of the year closure 7.6% up compared to 2012, with a turnover of 5,920 billion euros. A comment by Giuseppe Lesce.
 

Bresso December 10th. Hundreds of people paid a moving tribute to Giuseppe Meana, president of Pusterla 1880, during the funeral rites that were held in the Parish of San Nazaro and Celso. A simple, touching ceremony, composed as he would have liked it to be, but also marked by much disbelief, dismay and sincere pain.

The Architetto, that is what they called him in the world of packaging, suddenly left us Saturday December 7th. President of Pusterla 1880, he was 64 years of age.
Luciana Guidotti and Stefano Lavorini
 

Double Italo-American open house at Uteco, which presents its Crystal New Series globally: a totally equipped flexo printing machine specifically designed for flexible packaging.

With two different credit lines, the European Investment Bank (EIB) is making available to BNL BNP Paribas Group a total of EUR 350 million for financing Italian SMEs and midcaps, including through leasing schemes.

61.5% of world consumption of spirits is in the Asia-Pacific region where, however - after the sharp increase between 2007 and 2011 (+74.31%) - growth should slow down, stabilizing from now to 2016 at the figure of +13.63%.

Release of the official figures for the harvest of 2013. In a joint statement, Agrinsieme, Federvini and Unione Italiana Vini estimate that for the current year Italy produced around 45 million hectoliters, an increase of 7% compared to 2012, and of good quality throughout the country and for all types of grapes.

FACTS AND FIGURES Pallets, industrial packaging and crates are still essential to the manufacturing sector, despite the sharp decline experienced in 2012. Pallets and crates for transporting bulky merchandise still hold sway.

Una combinazione di esperienze nella cartotecnica di lusso, capacità e storia: Pusterla 1880 (di proprietà della famiglia Meana) e The London Fancy Box Co Ltd (Dover, UK) hanno annunciato un’alleanza strategica, da cui nascerà uno dei più grandi gruppi cartotecnici europei, focalizzato sul packaging in cartoncino di alta gamma.

According to a report by Finat, the demand for self-adhesive label materials in Europe stands at 5.78 billion sqm, up 1.7% compared to 2011.

Bio shoppers by decree on 13th September the standstill period required by the Directive 98/34/EC in relation to DM 18th March 2013 (Identification of the technical characteristics of bags for taking away goods) expired.

The Plastice project: how to implement the technology transfer in the field of bioplastics. The Aster contribution.

The guidelines for the documentary avowal of GMP are now available. Developed under the CAST project, they are the result of a longterm project that, through knowledge sharing, becomes a common platform for dialogue between packaging producers and food control bodies.