Industry and strategy

The answer to the question above is a convinced “yes”. Luciana Guidotti

Technology (on the cutting-edge), a philosophy (of integration), expertise (in human resources), relations (with the market): these are the assets on which B&R has built a 30-year history of commitment to a culture of automation in Italy. The secrets to this success, as told by various voices. Luciana Guidotti

The Balluff group, specialists in sensors and automation, has extended its own digital knowhow with the purchase of two companies: the ISS innovative software services GmbH (Stoccarda) and Matrix Vision GmbH (Oppenweiler).

An extensive product portfolio, financial solidity, innovative capabilities in the automation sector: With these goals to their credit, last September Lenze celebrated its 70 years of business, not by chance at the “Don Gino Rigoldi Foundation” in Milan, for years alongside young people with difficult prospects, to which a sum of money has been donated.

The law of conversion1 of D.L. 91/20172, the so-called “Decreto Sud”, has extended to September 30, 2018 the term to invest in “Industry 4.0” material assets, which may benefit from the 250% amortization introduced by the 2017 Budget Law.

The concerm has released its annual document, which focuses on how its research and development efforts have led to new products and services that help customers improve their eco-efficiency goals.

Historic grappa maker Mazzetti D’Altavilla presents its annual collection in Grappassion, a book that tells the story of Made in Italy grappa, as well as that of a family that since 1846 has been making grappa with a focus on land and innovation.

Italian firm AMB Spa (a trusted manufacturer of multilayer plastic films mainly for food packaging) announces its new development plan and invests 6.6 mln euro in a second site to serve alongside its historic headquarters in San Daniele del Friuli.

Increase in productivity, investments in technology and rendering the systems more efficient, shrewd management of resources and means, BRC certification: from the all positive indicators of the integrated paper&board converter Innova Group (owned and run by the Pedrotti family) to the market potentials for the year at hand. Luciana Guidotti

Editorial by Stefano Lavorini. Take an afternoon of the penultimate day of interpack: sitting in the company of Simona Michelotti at the fine stand of “her” SIT, devised and put together with uncommon enthusiasm and participation for the Duesseldorf fair, I take advantage of a rare moment of calm to sum up the situation together.
As often occurs, inevitably, we end up by speaking of the paths of…

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…

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.