Marketing and industry

Leister Technologies enters onto the Italian market first hand by inaugurating its direct branch.

Krones, leader on the global market of filling and packaging beverages, has bought 100% of HST Maschinenbau GmbH that designs and produces homogenizers and piston pumps for food & beverage.

Mineral water bottlers and recyclers have created a voluntary consortium that will effect a closed supply chain in order to recover more PET and produce raw materials with food safe properties. Called Coripet, the new consortium brings to the table original ideas to involve supermarkets and award virtuous consumers.

Steel and aluminium containers enable bringing out the full potential of a product’s value. These completely recyclable packaging types offer many advantages in production. A testimonial by Mirato.
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The Quality design of Italian packaging will go on show from 8th to 13th April in Milan. Among the fringe events in the Brera Design District this year, there will in fact be a space set up at the Mediateca Santa Teresa (via della Moscova 28), dedicated to the 15 finalists of the contest organized by the Istituto Italiano Imballaggio. The awards ceremony will be on April 9th.

5th February last saw the holding, at the Espace Champerret in Paris, of PCD (Cosmetic Packaging Design) and ADF (Aerosol Dispensing Forum), respectively focused on packaging systems for beauty and personal care, and on the aerosol industry with its evermore varied market outlets.

What with its 31,000 visitors from over 100 countries, with its 2012 edition Automatica already consolidated its key role as international automation sector rendezvous and main world robotics show.

The theme agenda of the fair Cibus Tec - Food Pack, the recent joint venture between Fiere di Parma and Ucima dedicated to food packaging and wrapping policy, is beginning to take shape.

SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY CHAIN Revitalizing consumption of fresh produce in largescale retail distribution goes by way of the rationalisation of packaging and logistics along the entire production-consumption chain. The sustainable development of the segment in the conference organized by Ipack-Ima for promoting Fruitech Innovation 2015.

The Italian companies that work upstream of pharmaceutical production have filed away a positive 2013.

Scandolara changes tack increasing the onus placed on quality and service. The Italian producer has in fact set up a Beauty Division and proposes lines of tubes specifically for high-end cosmetics.  l.g.

For the fifth consecutive year Acqua Minerale San Benedetto wins the innovation prize “Elected Product of the year 2014”, and the right to use the relative logo, known to consumers in over 35 countries.

Grow and then grow some more. Like a mantra, this formula sums up the future of Lameplast Group, an outstanding player in the European sector of production and filling of plastic containers destined for the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industry. And the numbers confirm it: +25% turnover in 2013, with an export share exceeding 40%. Stefano Lavorini

P.E. Labellers celebrates 40 years of activity (1974 - 2014).

The food industry remains stable for the most part during the fourth quarter of 2013, according to a study conducted in December among concerns of the food industry’s Ismea Panel.
 

Reconciling profits and social responsibility: a strategic asset for growth. Robatech understands, “interpreting” sustainability through the production and supply of adhesive aplicators and obtaining Sedex Smeta 4 Pillars certification.

The original experiment started up a year ago by the Municipalities of Brescia and Aprica to reduce volumes of municipal waste according to the directive of Regione Lombardia has reached its conclusion.

400 exhibitors and 7,439 visitors, these both qualified and international (54% non-French, coming from 77 countries) increasing by 6%. With these figures and a marked B2B orientation the luxury packaging trade fair consolidates both role and formula, relaunching on the events side of things. Here follows a selection of products on display.

Two Italians and various examples of innovative packaging are on the list of “top” candidates at the Fruit Logistica Innovation Awards 2014 (FLIA), to be selected by a jury of experts for the organizers Messe Berlin and Fruchtadel Magazine.

Ishida Europe has invested in excess of £1 million in a dedicated Snacks Demonstration area at its UK manufacturing headquarters in Woodgate, Birmingham.