Industry and strategy

Guala Closures Group has opened its first wine closure production facility in the United States in Fairfield, in the heart of the Californian wine country.

Istituto Italiano Imballaggio renews and enhances its usual statistical snapshot of the sector with new information: along with the 2013 balance relating to production (by weight), the publication “Packaging in Numbers” features a focus on short term growth prospects (2015).

Omron’s new headquarters in Hoffman Estates, Illinois has been unveiled.

Laminazione Sottile: higher production capacity thanks to the new intermediate cold rolling mill.

A “pentalogue”: five suggestions to help you effectively adjust your sales strategy.

Rockwell Automation has granted Beckhoff Automation a license to more than a dozen US and European linear motor patents.

During the coming months, Labelpack will relocate its administrative, commercial and production headquarters to the municipality of Brugherio, outside Monza.

Nilfisk-CFM, well-known manufacturer of industrial vacuum cleaners based in Zocca (MO), formerly part of the Danish multinational Nilfisk-Advance, from January 1, 2015 will take the name “Nilfisk”.

Developing a more responsible and sustainable business can have economic returns. A contribution to defining CSR - Corporate Social Responsibility. David Gambuli

The Board of Directors of IMA SpA (pictured: chairman Alberto Vacchi) has approved the merger through acquisition of its concern IMA Industries Srl, on the condition that it revoke its previous project which included Corazza Spa, also controlled by IMA SpA.

In the first half of 2014, the Interroll Group (Sant’Antonio, CH, in Italy at Cornaredo) further consolidated its market position, raising its turnover by 9.1% in local currency (+5.3% in consolidated currency), which in such a way reaches 157.1 million CHF.

Pixartprinting sets its sights on process certification at all levels - production, sales and communication - to guarantee maximum quality and transparency for customers, keep workers safe and implement environmentally sensitive policies.

Control of Ondulati Giusti and Cartonificio Fiorentino has been granted to Fiera Srl (Prato, PO) by an industrial group with intentions to guarantee its development with leadership objectives.

Cosmopack, the leading trade fair in the Cosmoprof Worldwide Bologna (BolognaFiere) production chain, will be presented for the first time in New York with a workshop on networking and training.

Three concrete actions to get a virtuous circle moving again: with the customer at the centre, will things look up for the company?

Krones, global leader in the beverage filling and packaging industry, has been included in the list of 50 most reputable companies in Western Europe drawn up by the prestigious U.S. business magazine Forbes.

In June, Marco Pedroni (current President of Coop Italia) was elected to the presidency of GS1 Italy | Indicod-Ecr, the Italian association which groups 35 thousand companies active in the manufacturing and distribution of consumer goods and that deals with the spread of identification and communication standards adopted worldwide.

Beginning 2014 with optimism, riding the positive performance of 2013 and following the opening of three new branches in Canada, Taiwan and the Czech Republic, the growth of Pilz continues in production and sales, as shown by the construction of two new facilities in Germany and China, in which the concern has invested approximately 25 million euro.

Despite the unhappy economic situation, Innova Group filed away a successful 2013 and begins 2014 showing further growth. Here is how.

The pharmaceutical market is tackling the issue of serialization, with the objective of univocally tracing pharmaceuticals in order to combat counterfeiting and guarantee safety and traceability of each and every single product along the production and distribution chain. (Reworking from source www.zetes.it).