Facts and data

  • No worries... and no asbestos

    ALTER ECO offers the assurance of a complete service that includes, before the design and installation of a photovoltaic system, also asbesto decontamination. A single supplier to guarantee quality and competence for “cleaner” energy.
  • Paper and graphics: supply chain sentiment

    The expectations of entrepreneurs in the graphics/converting sector, taken from a study by the Federation, show some modest improvements. Including on the domestic market.
  • Packaging: how much is made

    In terms of weight, the packaging sector ended 2011 with a 0.7% net drop in production. A drop is also expected for 2012.
  • Cellulosic packaging – Data 2011


    DATA AND FACTS Approximately 2,450 concerns with 7 billion euro in turnover and a production of 4,938 t/000: these in summary are the data that emerge from a snapshot of the Italian paper and board packaging industry in 2011.
  • Cosmetics and consumption

    UPDATES The progress of the channels during the first half of 2012 and projections for the second half, based on economic analysis by the Unipro research center.
  • Markets to be explored - Iran

    Sanctions and payments in Iran
    The restrictive measures adopted in economic and trade relations with Iran can be traced to Resolution 1737, implemented by the United Nations Security Council in 2006, and subsequent amendments.
  • A competition for energy-conserving soutions

    As the world’s leading event for the digital industry, CeBIT is once again supporting the CODE_n initiative and its international competition for startups and budding enterprises. In line with its motto of “Smart Solutions for Global Challenges”, the contest is devoted to uncovering inspired digital business models for sustained energy solutions.
  • Automation: segment of excellence

    The final data of industrial automation for 2011, presented by ANIE/AssoAutomazione, show an industrial segment that has reacted to the crisis with dynamism. Technological excellence, commitment to innovation and internationalization are the main drivers that have led the way.
  • Capsule of the future

    Presented Nespresso’s global Ecolaboration program for sustainable production and social responsibility. The Italian partners committed to the project, the specific objectives and the paradigm of sustainability, read as an asset to be further developed.
  • The (youthful) energy behind the beauty industry

    Unipro and the sector’s good prospects: turnover touching 9 billion euros (+4.4%) despite the recession and an acknowledgement of the keen entrepreneurship of the younger generations.
  • Closed-circuit recycling

    In Germany it will be the first system of its kind to go operational in August at the beverage producer Stute Nahrungsmittelwerke. We speak of the Krones PET recycling system: based on SuperClean-PET-Flake technology, that enables one to go straight from the recycled granule to the pressmoulding of preforms or containers.
  • Automatic machines: a good 2011 (indeed exceedingly good)

    TRENDS AND PROSPECTS The turnover for 2011 of Italian packaging and wrapping machine manufacturers exceeds 4,300 million euros. Caution in the forecasts for 2012. The need to act as a network, to support business in the coming future.
  • Rigid plastic packaging


    Figures, market and trends Production and use of rigid packaging. Focus on bottles, flacons, tubs, trays, bins, blisters, honeycombs, crates, pallets, flexible tubes and closures.
  • The science (and art) of beauty

    FROM A TO Z Packaging design as a point of encounter between functionality, taste, technology and communication shows its full force in the applications of the cosmetics sector. We report some of the ideas and suggestions for packaging from PCD and ADF 2012, with some forays into the food sector.
  • How cosmetics packaging is changing

    Facts and Figures The Italian perfumery-cosmetics market registers figures that go against those of many other industrial sectors. Exports are doing well, so too Italian domestic demand. Packaging thanks duly and follows suite.
  • Virtuous, from many points of view


    The Cuki projects. Reduction of material for cardboard packaging and practical help
    to the Food Bank that with "Cuki save the food", redistributes surplus food.
  • Anatomy of a complex sales operation...

    We alluded to the fact in the last issue that, to speak of complex sales, certain conditions must arise that do not happen every day, neither for the purchasers nor to for the sellers.
  • Markets to be explored - Messico


    The Mexican market for packaging machinery and packaging is highly dynamic, Italian technology is popular with Mexican businesses and large multinationals present in the country with direct foreign investment, aimed at serving the domestic and the north American markets.

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