Facts and data

«A concise tool to represent all the digital skills, technologies and solutions available through our members in order to clearly position within the associative system and related institutions (DHI and EDIH, competence centres, innovation hubs, …) the coverage of the digital world expressed by ANIE Automazione through its enterprises».

The photograph presented by the Coop 2024 Report – Consumption and lifestyles of Italians today and tomorrow – shows how the holistic dimension of food continues to prevail in Italians’ purchasing decisions, also with a view to environmental wellbeing. Store brands and discount stores dominate. Packaging has a central role in the sustainability paradigm.

In 2023, Innova Group recorded a turnover which was down 20% due to the fall in the cost of paper. This figure did not, however, affect profit margins, in line with the results of the previous year; profits, moreover increased by 1 million euros and growth in shareholders’ equity by 12 million.

The Sun Chemical’ fourteenth sustainability is out. The release emphasizes the business’ continued prioritization of sustainability leadership and commitment to social responsibility of the global manufacturer of inks, pigments and paints for printing, graphics and converting.

Increasingly less predictable demand, increasingly “green” products requested by the market and recurring supply chain issues are forcing manufacturing companies to review their production systems with various strategies, technologies and business models in order to rapidly adapt to the market while optimizing costs and reducing environmental impact.

The analysis examines the glass packaging sector, both hollow and tube types. With regards to hollow glass packaging, the subdivision used by Imballaggio in Cifre (Packaging in Figures) and shared with the Assovetro glass category Association, is organized into bottles, jars and small bottles and vials.

In the first six months of 2024, the Italian wine market contracted due to the persistence of economic uncertainty. This result was compensated by exports, which were positive especially in the USA and UK. Among Italy’s competitors, France is suffering while Australia is recovering.

In summary form, the 2023 market data collected in Italy, numbers and information on types of packaging.

Case study no.1
Here we present a brief description of the first of the five business cases taken into consideration by the Sant’Anna School.

Environmental sustainability and the circular economy are essential factors for reducing ecological impact and using resources responsibly. Strategies, technologies and business models for companies.

In this article we analyse alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages produced in Italy and imported and exported and, finally, those consumed in our country. This last parameter takes into consideration all the beverages distributed through the different sales channels: mass retail, Ho.Re.Ca, online sales, etc.

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.

According to the MECSPE Research Centre, there are encouraging signals from industry, thanks particularly to the boost from the Transition 5.0 Plan approved in January 2024, and inserted into the NRRP framework.

Solutions for the management of product and process data, digital twins and intelligent management systems to optimise operations and the supply chain and for adapting rapidly to the market with increasingly personalised products.

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).

Creative and sustainable, attentive to the economy and to gender parity: producers and processors of self-adhesive labels met together at the GIPEA 2024 Congress to discuss the complex issues affecting the packaging sector, highlighting the new values of labels.

Trend in the production and market positioning of a type of packaging used in a wide range of sectors. 2023 data.

A well-rooted tree but with many different leaves: an image that evokes Boxmarche’s approach to doing business and which was the common theme of the event during which the Corinaldo-based company presented the Living Company Report 2023, besides inaugurating the “Bosco di Fonte Mora” (Fonte Mora Wood).

Italian packaging and wrapping machinery manufacturers have closed another year of growth (+8% against 2022). The export market was particularly dynamic in 2023, reaching 7.2 billion euros (+10.5% against the previous year). The domestic market remains positive, albeit at a slower pace.

In the face of the contraction recorded in 2023 of almost all types of packaging (including empty packaging), cellulose packaging remains among the most representative in the entire sector in terms of tonnes: 33% of market share and 26.8% in terms of turnover, second only to plastic packaging.