Sustainability

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The run-up to the "best packaging" awards which, we remind you, are scheduled for Ipack-Ima 2025, begins with an event during the Fuori Salone in Milan (April 8-13).

The groundbreaking resins, designed for wood and plastic surfaces, offer excellent reactivity and stain resistance while containing an impressive 50% bio-based carbon.

With the “AIPE 40: Una Storia per un Futuro di Sostenibilità” (a History for the Future of Sustainability) conference, AIPE, the Italian Association of Expanded Polystyrene, took the opportunity to reflect on the past and, above all, to look at the future of sintered expanded polystyrene (EPS): a longstanding key packaging material which has now been reinvented in the light of environmental questions

Monthly showcase of packaging solutions to communicate, protect and distribute commonly used products

The new Packaging Competence Center supports the development of future-proof packaging solutions PPWR compliant

FaithInNature is a Scottish cosmetics company and the first in the world to recognise the legal rights of Nature inside its BoD. It’s a revolutionary business model which sees Nature as a partner rather than a resource to be exploited.

The major trends which, according to Euromonitor International and Mintel, will affect the beauty sector in 2025 and beyond. Health and longevity will drive the choices of global consumers, attracted by natural and planet-friendly ingredients. Biotechnological innovations and AI are key tools for personalised beauty.

The biggest structure in the Food Valley dedicated to new food processing and packaging technologies

The winners of the Conai Contest were announced on 14 November during the “L’Economia del future” (Economy of the future) festival organized by the Corriere della Sera newspaper and hosted at the Triennale Milano

The trade fair in Parma to be held from 13 to 15 May: focus on AI, big data and security

Alessandro Parimbelli, CEO of Coesia: "Ever more integrated and flexible lines to minimize challenges"

News from ILIP at Fruit Logistica 2025: circular economy and packaging design at stake

Plastic waste from supermarkets returns to the shelves as recycled products

2025 is a special year for Giflex, the Flexible Packaging Group, as it’s celebrating 40 years of activity. It’s an important milestone that’s symbolised in a celebratory logo, a renewed corporate image and a rich and varied programme of events.

With PALUDI project, promoted by researchers at Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV Freising and Dresden, paludicultures become an alternative bio-based raw material for paper packaging.

The opertaion will create a global leader in metal packaging and enhancing customer value

Magnoni, the LM-group brand launches the new integrated system for laser marking cans with high performance and a special system to reduce at minimum any kind of waste.

100% recycled packaging and a growing use of rPET in bottles are among Assobibe’s main objectives, also contained in Unesda’s Manifesto 2024/2029.

The first Guidelines for the sorted collection of packaging waste and other urban waste in Italian universities have been published. It’s a document promoted by CONAI, arising out of the collaboration with member universities of the Resources and Waste Work Group of the RUS - Rete delle Università per lo Sviluppo sostenibile (University Network for Sustainable Development).