Facts and data

Doing business in the Middle Kingdom: effectively managing relations between representatives, customers, suppliers and employees.
Starting with this issue, ItaliaImballaggio will offer a series of reports and analyses by Alessandro Zaccarini - an Italian expert in China-Italy business relations - examining the main negotiation tactics and typical relations models among “local” managers and…

Robatech Italia (Cesena, FC) presents Cartoglue-LP to the operators of the paper converting industry: a self-adhesive glue system, extremely flexible, which combines “Swiss” precision with real economic competitiveness.

ASTER is the consortium for innovation set up by Regione Emilia Romagna, by 6 Italian regional universities, by the CNR and ENEA and by the sector associations. It stands as a landmark for favouring company access to innovation, mainly via the coordination of the Hitech Network, a network of public and private research laboratories serving the entrepreneurial fabric. To better clarify purposes…

The Marchesini Group continues to grow and invest, and also confirms good forecasts for 2013.

STEEL AND ALUMINIUM With 925,000 t of packaging produced, Italy is among the top packaging producers in the European ranking. Size of the market, user sectors and format characteristics.

Four-month survey of the packaging industry. Situation as of late April 2013.
By Plinio Iascone - Istituto Italiano Imballaggio

BeeGraphic has become the exclusive dealer and distributor for Italy in 15 European countries for Phoenix, the well-known advanced software for converting and label concerns by Tilia Labs.

Madina Printing Publishing MPPC has chosen GWS Printing Systems to transfer a heatset print unit from Oslo (Norway) to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Almost all of the scrap glass is used as a secondary raw material in an efficient "bottle to bottle" circuit. Italy fourth in Europe.

IMA closes 2012 with a preliminary strong growth, with consolidated revenues of 734.3 million euros (+9.7%), EBITDA of 101.4 million euros (+9%) and a backlog of orders worth 404.9 million euros (+7.1%)

FIGURES AND TRENDS According to analysis by Prometeia, in 2012 the pharmaceutical sector as a whole (OTC and non-prescription, including for hospitals and excluding veterinary) did not exceed modest growth (+0.5%). The present report examines only OTC and branded drugs sold at the pharmacy, of which it analyzes quantity and packaging configurations.

Gone is the carefree and natural approach of previous years, 2014 will be colorful and dazzling, but at the same time delicate and elegant.

The four-year ReBioFoam research project, an effort to develop a foam made from organic, biodegradable biopolymers, has come to a close. Used as a protective packaging solution alternative to synthetic expanded materials, it will reduce recourse to landfill disposal with a leap forward for recovery.

The business volume reached by the Italian recycling industry is equal to that of the cosmetics sector and greater than that of textiles. But, most importantly, it’s growing: Conai explains the how and the why.

Objective: innovation for competitivity The most important card to exit the crisis will be played in investment in R&D. We focus attention on structures within Italy, particularly in the area of Emilia, that offer companies suitable tools to effectively innovate and also to access funds. Focus on CRIT, IR4I, Aster. by Riccardo Ceredi

B&R are inaugurating the Italian Automation Academy, a structure entirely dedicated to training, and thus they are “writing” a telling story of commitment in favour of a serious approach to automation. The sense and the scope of this undertaking is rounded off by the network of relations and agreements with Academies, Research Centers and obviously, the market. L.G.

DATA AND FACTS Following a 2011 growth rate totaling 4.6%, in 2012 even the cosmetics/perfume sector had to “take account” of the worsening economic crisis in Italy and in Europe: the drop is in domestic demand, in particular, and the “historically” countercyclical nature of the sector has marked the time. On the other hand, subcontractors and exports are doing well. The numbers for packaging, by…

Joining up with the Swiss Group will help expand the range of products that IMA can offer in the field of food packaging.

Visionlab has empowered  the teleassistance and control of its products via the use of latest generation tablets and smartphones, based on Android as well as iOS (Apple) operating systems.

Edigit Ltd (BO, management software for Graphic Arts) presented last Viscom Italy a new integrated system dedicated to companies that print digital, which combines e-commerce+management +workflow in one solution.