Marketing and industry

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.

Production (+2.4%) and turnover (+2.6%) are up, in the wake of a dynamic domestic demand. The sector is confirmed to be export-oriented, with a positive balance of trade of over 2 billion euros.

By proactively collaborating with suppliers, customers and trade organizations, Sun Chemical helps the industry to achieve increasingly advanced eco-efficiency objectives. The Group makes a constant commitment to R&D to reduce the environmental impact of its inks, with particular attention to the "responsible" procurement of raw materials.

The “Pharma 4.0 round table: excellent processes and enabling technologies for the future of the Italian pharmaceutical industry “(Milan, 26 February) was one of the stages in the approach SPS Italia 2019, the principal fair for automation technologies of Messe Frankfurt Italia, which organized the event in collaboration with ISPE - the largest global non-profit association dedicated to…

The “Frutta e Vai!” line is in line with current trends, launched by Valfrutta for the horeca channel, which respects the expectations of consumers’ well-being and health who accustomed to out-of-home consumption (as the naming suggests).

With a score of 72.5 points, Acqua Minerale San Benedetto is the company with the highest reputation of all non-alcoholic drinks, excluding coffee.

For Zardetto, a producer of Prosecco Conegliano Valdobbiadene well-known in the United States, RobilantAssociati has studied a striking and daring brand identity, which perfectly expresses Zardetto’s positioning as “The Game Changer” suited to forefully emerging on the American market, accustomed as it is to particularly modern style codes.

Market trends and types of packaging related to detergents, laundry soaps, washing adjuvants, environmental disinfectants and disinfestants, waxes, car care products, environmental deodorants ...

Sea Vision launches the yudoo software suite dedicated to the world of 4.0: designed for the pharmaceutical sector, it offers itself as an irreplaceable tool to revolution the manufacturing environment, driving it toward the future where machines, devices, computer systems are interconnected.

Market and types. The most used in the “packaging for the transport of goods” category, wood packaging is widely used across the entire manufacturing sector. Which is why the sector trend has always been closely related to industry trends. Barbara Iascone

Structure and value of innovation in sustainable terms of the 23 finalist packaging solutions of the 2019 edition of the contest organized by Packaging Meeting, and promoted by the Italian Packaging Institute in partnership with Conai.

Travagliato (BS), 18 April 2019. Antares Vision, a Brescia multinational operating in the field of visual inspection, tracking solutions and data management for the pharmaceutical sector, debuted today on Aim Italia, the segment dedicated to small and medium-sized businesses of Piazza Affari.