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  • Datalogic acquires M.D. Micro Detectors

    The acquisition will allow the Group Datalogic to strengthen its Italian and global presence in the industrial automation market through the addition of inductive and ultrasonic sensors to its portfolio of products, with applications in a variety of industrial sectors including electronics, pharmaceuticals, logistics and automotive.

  • Reno De Medici exits the FBB business

    Reno De Medici, primario produttore di cartoncino riciclato da imballaggio, ha firmato un contratto di opzione di vendita con Bonaparte Holding SAS che ha formulato un’offerta per l’acquisto del 100% di RDM La Rochette, controllata francese operante nel business del cartoncino prodotto da fibra vergine (FBB – Folding Box Board).

  • Corrugated cardboard: Grifal acquires the operating division of Cornelli

    The group has now signed an agreement to acquire 100% of the share capital of a newco called Cornelli Brand Packaging Experience to which the Cremona-based company Cornelli will transfer its operating division devoted to the production of corrugated cardboard boxes, as well as the design and implementation of new branding techniques applied to packaging.

  • Italian data science arrives in Israel

    Ammagamma, a data science company based in Modena, Italy, has opened its first foreign branch in the city of Haifa, Israel, an industrial centre of excellence.

  • Sappi introduces barrier paper technology

    Sappi Europe is set to introduce new barrier coating technology for functional paper packaging at its speciality mill in Alfeld, Germany, increasing its production capacity for sustainable paper packaging solutions.

  • Pepsico for the planet: climate goals doubled

    PepsiCo steps up efforts to build a more resilient and sustainable food system and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than 40% across the entire value chain by 2030.

  • Italian consumers more and more digital

    Netcomm and TuttoFood Live Forum. The acceleration of eCommerce induced by the pandemic is continuing even after the lockdown, consolidating the new buying habits. Food is among the leading segments with 36% of eShoppers that continue to privilege the digital channels of the large-scale retail trade (+96.4% in packaged consumer goods). 
    Milena Bernardi

  • Packaging machinery: a limited drop with expected recovery

    According to interim balances issued by Ucima’s MECS-Centro Studi, and as widely expected, in 2020 the surge of the Italian automatic machine manufacturers’ sector slowed (-5% overall turnover), but entrepreneurs look to the future with confidence. Matteo Gentili, President of Ucima: «We have a consolidated order portfolio and excellent 4.0 technologies, which will allow us to stay the…

  • Report on the state of packaging – Data 2020 (1)

    This report provides a cross-section of the trends in the sectors of the manufacturing industry where the consumption of packaging is most intense - and their consequent evolution - divided into food and non-food macro-areas. 

  • Südpack acquires high barrier film producer LPF

    Südpack (Germany) has completed another step in its long-term growth plan with the acquisition of LPF Flexible Packaging from the Clondalkin Group, in turn owned by private equity investor Egeria.

  • The benefits of recycling include €1 billion savings and significantly reduced CO2 emissions

    According to the Green Economy Report published by CONAI, recycling led to a reduction of more than 4.3 million tonnes of CO2 emissions in Italy in 2019, the equivalent of 10,000 return flights between Rome and New York. The primary energy saved is capable of meeting the annual electricity requirements of 6 million Italian households. The focus is now on packaging eco-design and incentives for…

  • Grifal acquires the operational arm of Tieng

    Grifal Group, a Bergamo, Italy-based SME listed on the Aim Italia market that designs and produces innovative eco-sustainable packaging, has further strengthened its position by signing a binding agreement for the purchase of 100% of a newco to which Zanica (Bergamo) based company Tieng, already a Grifal supplier, will transfer its resin bonding and packaging automation business.

  • From waste to new raw material

    Arcoplastica - a leading reality in the field of thermoformed and extruded plastic materials - inaugurated in mid 2020 a grinding department, which allows it to recover almost all the residues of its production cycle, retrieving up to 4,000 kg of plastic material per day (and consequently reducing the purchase and consumption of virgin material).

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