ItaliaImballaggio June 2019

Industry 4.0: reflections emerged from the comparison with some protagonists of the SMART area of Cosmopack. The word goes to Pietro Cassani, CEO of Marchesini Group (Supply of complete lines and machines for packaging pharmaceutical and cosmetics products).

Our excursus on Industry 4.0 starts with a company in some ways anomalous in the SMART area of Cosmopack: in fact Nastri-Tex does not produce "hard" machines for manufacturing cosmetics, but provides a fundamental consumable for creating make-up and therefore essential to the success of the "packaging system" as a whole.

According to Franco Comoli, president of CMI Industries, speaking of Industry 4.0 means talking about rules and methods to implement digital end-to-end processes, with the aim of increasing productivity and controlling costs, and this applies as much to the machine manufacturer as to the user.

The functions of Industry 4.0, within FT System, and of the Arol group of which the company is a part, have been implemented following two main directions: the first is to integrate the inspection and control systems with the other machines in the line to optimize their operation; the second is aimed at monitoring the functioning of individual machines to retrieve information for predictive…

The evolution of ELECTRIC: Thus IDM Automation Srl presented itself at the 2019 edition of Cosmopack, bringing to the fair the e-MF302, a fully electric plastic and glass bottle filling machine, which integrates two Mitsubishi scara robots, one dedicated to loading and one to unloading of the bottles.

The 4.0 of Italian manufacturers. Dossier realized with the contribution of Nastri Tex, Marchesini Group, CMI, IDM Automation, Omas Tecnosistemi, FT System. By Stefano Lavorini, Luciana Guidotti and Chiara Giannangeli.

Emiliano Zucchini was born in Frascati in 1982, he lives and works in Rome.

Focus on sustainability for the 2019 edition of the now historic Italian Packaging Oscar, the contest organized by Packaging Meeting, and promoted by the Italian Packaging Institute in partnership with Conai.

16-23 October 2019, Düsseldorf (D)

 A book by Piero Capodieci Edizioni Ambiente, October 2018

The winners of the 2019 Accademia del Profumo award were revealed on May 14 at Milan, in the elegant setting of the Palazzo Mezzanotte. The prestigious event, now in its 30th edition, renews its mission every year: enhancing and promoting the culture of perfume, promoting the development of the industry in Italy.

Focus on the market and types of coffee and tea packaging, products that belong to the large “beverages” area.

Made with different laminated materials - cellulose, plastic, aluminium films, metallized - or from the coupling of a single material, even in times of general recession, the packaging area represented by flexible converter packaging has always featured positive growth. And this thanks in particular to its ductility that makes it ideal for packaging a variety of products, and its  being…

According to the first quarterly survey conducted by the Centro Studi Ucima, 2019 opens with some shade. The months of assured production, stable with respect to the average of the year just ended, and the trend of production prices substantially confirm the good health of the sector, but it is the decline in the order collection in the first quarter that requires some attention.

Driven by demand from the food and e-commerce sectors, the Italian corrugated cardboard packaging industry grew by 3.62% in 2018 to reach a total sales volume of more than 7 billion m2 (6.75 billion m2 in 2017).

From 1 May 2019, the Robatech Group is presenting itself to the market with a new corporate identity: an image renewal that posits the values and the mission of the Swiss company in a clearer and more incisive manner, showing the strongly felt link between industrial gluing, respect for the environment and responsibility in the use of resources.

Following the acquisition of Telerobot SpA in 2016, IMA significantly strengthened its presence in the market of the automatic assembly platforms, and positioned itself as one of the most innovative world leaders in the Automation sector.

After the confirmation of the dates of the next editions of IPACK-IMA and MEAT-TECH, scheduled at Fiera Milano in 2021, the renewed Board of Directors of Ipack Ima Srl, which met last June 4, named Valerio Soli (Coesia Group) as President of the company, a joint venture between Ucima and Fiera Milano.

The RICREA Consortium announces record data relating to the national recycling of steel packaging in 2018: the rate is the highest ever, equal to 78.6% of that released for consumption (+ 5% compared to 2017) for a total weight of 386,895 t, equal to that of 13 medium-sized aircraft carriers.

Measuring gas concentrations inside sealed packaging without piercing and producing unnecessary waste.