Facts and data

Acceleration by Stefano Lavorini
Ours is a difficult world. A world in which even our fears have changed, and changed for the worse. This the sense of the talk given by professor Paolo Legrenzi which closed the proceedings of the fourth edition of the Economic Packaging Conference (Venice 30th and 31st May) organized by the Istituto Italiano Imballaggio in cooperation with Conai, the Italian…

As announced with due emphasis during Ipack-Ima: the triennial show Pharmintech (Bologna, 17th-19th April 2013), focused on process technologies and packaging for the pharmaceutical industry, is approaching its fourth edition and changes pace.
 

According to preliminary results, 2011 ended with a limited increase
of around 0.3% in terms of figures expressed in tons.

Quarterly packaging industry observatory. Situation at the
end March 2012 By Roccandrea Iascone - Istituto Italiano Imballaggio
 
 

DATA & FACTS Figures and use trends for containers ever up-to-date despite their "age", and that have been able to reinvent themselves by exploiting their traditional strengths of being tamper-proof, sturdy, guaranteeing an absolute barrier to external agents and perfect product preservation as well as being recyclable.  Plinio Iascone

FROM THE FEDERATION 2011’s fourth quarter slows down, and not much more is expected from the first quarter of 2012. The paper and printing industry Federation provides updates on the (diverse) dynamics of printing, paper production and converting machinery, paper and board production, printing and paper converting.
 

Conti­Tech Elastomer Coatings and Hell Gravure Systems will work together to improve the materials and machinery used in the direct engraving of plates, making the process of flexo printing even more competitive.

Mack Brooks Exhibitions launches CCE International, a new fair dedicated exclusively to flat and corrugated cardboard, which will take place 19th to 21st March 2013 in Munich and will be staged alongside the 8th edition of ICE Europe, the biggest paper, film and laminate converting event in the world.

Highcon Systems Ltd has signed a commercial and technological cooperation agreement with Esko to integrate Esko ArtiosCAD software (design, packaging product development and the creation of virtual prototypes) with Highcon Euclid, the first machine in the world for digital cutting and creasing.

After the resignation for reasons of age of Helge Hansen, Christoph Müller has been appointed the new president of Koenig & Bauer AG.

The 7th International Converting Exhibition, ICE Europe 2011 (Munich, 8-10/11/2011), ended with record numbers in visitors, exhibitors and floor space. With 5,700 visitors from 65 countries, 384 exhibitors from 23 countries and a net exhibition space of some 10,000 square metres, ICE Europe 2011 was the biggest converting exhibition ever.

DS Smith Plc has recently announced the proposed purchase of the packaging division of Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget (SCA Packaging), with the exception of the kraftliner activities, for a net amount of approximately 1.6 billion euro.

Ferrarini & Benelli received SAP Quality Award Silver Winner 2011 Italy.
The award recognizes excellence in SAP software implementations and celebrates customers who use SAP’s quality principles to effectively manage software implementations that meet the organization’s business process requirements and deliver significant business value.

This is what the experts of Taga Italia, WGM and other reputable concerns from the printing world were wondering while gathered together September last in the World Graphic Machine showroom.

As a result of the successes of CERTIprint, Studio Xilox has designed field CERTIpack, a new technical certification process recognized by TÜV Austria and specifically for paper converting companies.

Rewarding operating results for Dalter Food in the first eight months of 2011. The Emilian company, leader in packaging grated cheese and portioned fresh product for ho.re.ca and the food industry, registered a significant increase in volumes (+7%) and turnover (+24%) compared to the same period in 2010.

The reversal of the trend from a plus sign to a negative which affected the global and Italian economies during the second semester of 2011, with negative repercussions on manufacturing, could not avoid influencing the packaging sector.

Four-month monitoring of the packaging industry. Situation as of late November 2011 and early forecasts for 2012. By Roccandrea Iascone

The excellent organization of a beehive as a metaphor of a successful company: this is the theme around which SIT has created “its” calendar for 2012, a cult object that has seen the new year in for close on two decades now.

Factual proof The market, the entrepreneurs, the general public needs certainties. Let’s hence take a look at the little big world of packaging that, astride February and March, will meet up at Ipack Ima, this also to find reasons for optimism. The conditions are there. Luciana Guidotti