Marketing and industry

DATA & FACTS Figures and use trends for containers ever up-to-date despite their "age", and that have been able to reinvent themselves by exploiting their traditional strengths of being tamper-proof, sturdy, guaranteeing an absolute barrier to external agents and perfect product preservation as well as being recyclable.  Plinio Iascone

IN BRIEF How and why they are appreciated: packaging high in service content for delicatessen and fresh produce.  
Plinio Iascone

DATA in brief, the numbers and characteristics of the packaging of frozen foods, vegetable and ichthyic preserves. Plinio Iascone

Environmental protection via the sun’s energy. The topic was broached in a question and answer session involving ALTER ECO (a company that designs and manufactures photovoltaic turnkey systems) and Euroscatola (producer of carboard packagings, cases and displays) by word of its AD, Silvio Cappelletti, stalwart supporter of the company’s investment and their choice of supplier.

May Lavoisier forgive us for interpreting this aphorism in our own way in order to present the activity of Cama and its new “Non Food” division, called on to take advantage of the concern’s valuable experience in secondary packaging and robotics for the food industry.

FROM THE FEDERATION 2011’s fourth quarter slows down, and not much more is expected from the first quarter of 2012. The paper and printing industry Federation provides updates on the (diverse) dynamics of printing, paper production and converting machinery, paper and board production, printing and paper converting.
 

Six ways to ensure that your employees solve problems without you.
 

www.ice.gov.it The organisation ICE - Agency for the promotion abroad and the internationalization of Italian companies (under interim management) - has established a close collaboration with the magazine ItaliaImballaggio. ICE‘s network of overseas offices will provide a regular update on the development of packaging in the short/medium term in given countries.

INDIA Mac Due tells the story of a joint venture started on the Indian subcontinent in order to produce semi-automatic packaging machines with Western quality standards at Eastern costs, with the objective of winning over emerging markets and of being more competitive on the Western markets.

ENCOUNTERS Safety and flexibility for the machines of today and tomorrow. At the Consumer Packaged Goods symposium, organized by Rockwell Automation, manufacturers and users exchanged opinions on business and sustainability.
Stefano Lavorini

ACADEMY AND INDUSTRY A platform for exchanges, capable of furthering the dialogue between representatives of science and industry. The objective of the Linking University project is clear: open a constant communication channel between working bodies so that innovation, which is nourished by different skills, becomes a real business driver for the automation industry. Ideas and opportunities to be…

The 2012 “Oscar dell’imballaggio” this year focuses on technological innovation of packaging systems and products. However, concepts of environmental sustainability are as ever a major feature.
The competition is held under the auspices of Ipack-Ima 2012: the awards ceremony for the solutions entered will be held February 29th 2012 at 4 pm, in the Progettare il Futuro Hall.

The reversal of the trend from a plus sign to a negative which affected the global and Italian economies during the second semester of 2011, with negative repercussions on manufacturing, could not avoid influencing the packaging sector.

Comforted by the figures that speak of performance going against the prevailing trend of the Italian industrial system, the Italian operators of the packaging and processing materials and machine segment are about to give rise to the 2012 edition of Ipack Ima (Fiera Milano, Rho, 28th February - 3rd March).

Four-month monitoring of the packaging industry. Situation as of late November 2011 and early forecasts for 2012. By Roccandrea Iascone

DETAILS, AWARDS, PRODUCTS Glam and lively, this latest edition of Luxe Pack Monaco (Monaco, 19th-21st October 2011) confirms the good health of a show that has been able to revitalize itself and that stands as a regular event for producers and users of high-end packaging

Factual proof The market, the entrepreneurs, the general public needs certainties. Let’s hence take a look at the little big world of packaging that, astride February and March, will meet up at Ipack Ima, this also to find reasons for optimism. The conditions are there. Luciana Guidotti

Henkel Italia Detergency also “plays” the sustainability card in its promo activities. Fielding consumer targeted promotional actions has become fundamental to modern retail distribution.