Marketing and industry

  • PCD and ADF at a turning point

    The further growth of the 2016 edition confirms the “weight” of the fairs belonging to The Paris Packaging Innovation Hub, that announces the transfer of ownership and several new initiatives. The organizers’ reflections.
  • The Italian Packaging Oscar 2016 An eco-technological design award

    2016 is the year of the “best  environmental packaging”. The event organized by the Istituto Italiano Imballaggio, this year in collaboration with CONAI, in fact offers stories of environmentally friendly packaging. With the winners on show at the Milan Design Week, the Oscar awards ceremony will be held April 15.
  • Paris Hub: fully booked and full of news.

    Packaging of Perfume Cosmetic & Design (PCD) and Aerosol & Dispensing Forum (ADF), which together make up The Paris Packaging Innovation Hub, registered their greatest success yet on 3-4 February, 2016: over 6,500 experts (+20% on 2015) from concerns that use packaging for beauty products (treatments, makeup, perfumes and personal care), but also food and other products, visited 357…
  • Cosmetics/perfume: packaging


    The Italian beauty industry: data, characteristics and evolution of a manufacturing sector with strong growth potential in both domestic demand and especially in exports. Plinio Iascone
  • Moog@IIT: a laboratory for robots

    The motion control giant Moog Inc. and the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) have signed an agreement for the creation of a joint laboratory, called Moog@IIT, in order to develop a new generation of technologies for the movement and control of autonomous robots.
  • New features in the offing

    A lively 2016 indeed for Live-Tech Srl, that is busy preparing the launch of an innovative range of products that will shortly be presented to the international community.
  • A year to remember

    Industrial systems for hot and cold gluing: efficient products and strategies that are “environmentally and user friendly” by one of the sector’s leaders. With 40 years under its belt, Robatech confirms its intention to leverage the gains it has made to grow further.
  • Food processing: from Parma to Chicago, by way of Cologne

    Fiere di Parma has a record year and looks to internationalization with the Koelnmesse Italia agreement. This year at Cibus Tec will be the debut of European Pavilions, which will bring the best European food processing & packaging technologies to the fair. Coming soon, an Italian delegation will appear at the first edition of ProFood Tech 2017.
  • Free to dream… taking the hurt out of blood testing

    Outside soldiers, heavily armed police, bodyguards, Carabinieri trucks and armour-plated cars; inside, representatives of the national and regional government, pharmaceutical industry managers, press, guests of honour from the institutions and the world of manufacture, some famous names standing by, women and men of the organization busying themselves, everyone decked out elegantly and composed.…
  • Accademia del Profumo n. 27: the nominations for 2016

    The competition came into being with the intent of showcasing the innovation and the creative proposals of the new fragrances launched on the Italian market, to promote perfume and favour the growth of the Italian firms that operate in the sector.
  • A 2016 full of fragrance

    Accademia del Profumo gathers the fruits of tradition and the challenges of the future. Thus Straordinario Sentire, the narrative promotional space dedicated to the perfume culture, comes into being. Announcement of the imminent opening of an itinerant olfactory path in the oldest botanical gardens in Italy and, dulcis in fundo, the nominations of the Accademia del Profumo Award 2016, which will…
  • Pharmintech 2016, 13 - 15 April Bologna

    New events and special initiatives for the coming edition of the triennial technological show, focussed on the pharmaceutical, parapharmaceutical, nutraceutical and cosmeceutical industry.
  • Inventors of paper

    Favini proves its vocation for creativity and its competencies by presenting at Luxe Pack two models of sustainable reuse of raw materials: in the luxury spot light are Remake, a premium paper obtained from the waste products of processing leather, and Naturally Clicquot 3 paperboard, made from grape byproducts of Veuve Clicquot wine, awarded by Formes de Luxe.
  • Luxe Pack 2015: numbers and exclusive ideas

    Now established as a major global showcase for trends in high end packaging, the latest Luxe Pack (organized by Idice) concluded amid general satisfaction, having brought to light creativity, projects and production of a highly select sector.
  • Capsules: green alternatives

    For Enoplastic, sustainable development is not just an ethical and social matter, but a matter of identity and strategy. At the last Simei, the concern amazed visitors with two decisively green proposals: the capsule solutions Derma and Greenleaf.
  • Corrugated cardboard captures the eye

    Bestack (Italian national consortium of corrugated cardboard manufacturers for fresh fruit and vegetables) has published the results of a German study conducted on a sample of consumers through eye tracking (a system that tracks movement of the pupils and enables identifying what a person is looking at and how carefully).
  • Best packaging for preserves

    Each year, the Anuga Awards recognize the excellence of packaging for marketing and communication. This year, in the category “preserves”, the award went to “Rizzoline” by Rizzoli Emanuelli of Parma, which since 1906 has marketed quality fish products.

Our network