Marketing and industry

With farsightedness and an openness to new markets, the Arborea milk cooperative won over international buyers, trade professionals and horeca operators in the food & beverage sector at Anuga (Cologne, 10-14 October, 2015).

Published by Beverfood in partnership with Mineracqua, the 2015/16 edition of Bevitalia, the yearbook that offers an overview of the Italian packaged water, flat and carbonated soft drinks and fruit beverage market.

Overriding success at the 26th edition of SIMEI, the biennial winemaking and bottling machine show.

Representatives of various food & beverage firms spoke at the ACIMGA conference, but also those in the packaging sector (producers of paper and board, flexible packaging and labels) and vending machine operators, who interpreted the changes reported by the experts and offered some innovative proposals. Their success is proof of the accuracy of their findings.

With Expo over, the voices remain of those who discussed food, distribution and consumption. These include those of the experts that ACIMGA brought together in a conference on the second to last day of Expo, in order to foster reflections on the phenomena that are changing the face of food products – and their packaging. E.P.

Many successes and clear goals for the near future of industrial automation.

Mondi is one of the world’s leading packaging and paper companies, employing around 25,000 people across more than 30 countries. It ranks among the top international suppliers of virgin and recycled containerboard and brings its ideas on service and innovation to Fruit Logistica.  

... having something of the marvellous, the true, the plausible and the sublime. Never before have I taken part in a scientific congress so rich and varied in its contents, as well as in terms of focussed participants.
Stefano Lavorini

The leading trade fair in Europe in the field of industrial automation, will take place 24 to 26 November next in Nuremberg.

A little over a year after the acquisition of Appia Etichette, Nuceria Group lives up to its growth objectives in all sectors of the packaging industry, expanding and diversifying its production range. And looks towards the high-end, offering creative, high-quality, designer labels.

A centennial source, a restyling of charm.

The historic wine cellar Schenk Italia, among the major national wineries, has developed a line of high-end Veronese wines and has chosen an elegant and exclusive packaging made by OI (Owens-Illinois), considering it the most suitable to convey the value of the products, the cellar and the territory.

The Granarolo Group (the largest agro-industrial operator in the country supported by Italian capital) has announced the results of the first survey regarding information needs of Italian consumers, by the Permanent Observatory on the Italian milk supply chain “Healthy Eating, Italian Supply Chain”*.

In relation to global beverage production (alcoholic and non-alcoholic), Italy ranks fifth among western countries, with a 14% share, behind Germany (22%), the UK (20%), France (17%) and Spain (16%). Numbers on packaging.

First came PCD (Perfumes Cosmetics and Design), launched in 2001 by Oriex with the formula of exhibition and conference, to update the market on developments in beauty packaging.

As predicted by the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman (“Liquid Life”, 2008), people today are increasingly convinced that complete self-realization requires doing away with rules and restrictions.

Focus on Italian food consumption that shows a slight recovery in quantitative terms set against a significant qualitative change, with the onus being placed on health and well-being. Data and trends taken from the full annual report drawn up by the Coop, which offer excerpts of great interest for operators in the food & packaging industry.

At the New York event, Dino Tavazzi, CEO of BolognaFiere Cosmoprof and Pharmintech, answered questions about the upcoming schedule for the cosmetics and pharmaceutical sectors. In the spotlight, internationalization… and packaging.

Etma competition demonstrates European tube industry’s innovative capability. In focus this year: design and decoration, closures and applications, sustainability and environmental protection.

The heightened sensitivity and reflections in recent years on the environment have led packaging concerns - and notably the paper industry - to review their processes in a sustainable way, especially as regards the use (and saving) of raw materials.
In this perspective an innovative sector project has been implemented by Lucaprint, which premiered on September 18 at Expo, which saw the…