Facts and data

Quarterly monitoring of the packaging supply chain: situation updated to May 2024. General economic situation and analysis of manufacturing activity and consequent evolution of the packaging sector.

Packaging machine manufacturing continues to grow, with turnover of €9.2 billion in 2023 and exports worth €7.2 billion

Navigating the challenges and opportunities.

The strategies, technologies and best practices for developing connected automatic production systems, guaranteeing maximum safety and security
of data, infrastructure and people.

In Italy, the pro-capita consumption of dairy products stands at around 286 kg per year. This analysis examines the following segments: milk for direct consumption (excluding that for industrial use), cheeses, butter and yoghurt.

Baby food packaging facts and numbers.

The results emerging from initial analyses of data relating to the packaging industry with reference to 2023 show a situation that confirms the production trend registered for 2022.

2024 is a year of measures on sustainability for the European Union, committed for some time to regulating a number of key factors for the creation of a green economy from the point of view of development practices and models.

Presented during Cosmoprof Worldwide 2024, the white paper “Plastic packaging in the cosmetics sector” is a handbook developed by Aliplast (Hera Group) and Cosmetica Italia to set out the basic concepts of recycling for the world of beauty, which is increasingly attentive to sustainability but not close enough to the new innovative materials with recycled content available on the market.

Alongside the pharmaceutical sector, also the subject of ever-increasing attention, there is the category of nutraceutical products, that is to say, all those food supplements which, while not drugs, are in any case used as a remedy for various health problems.

Market facts and data. 2023 packaging numbers. Analysis of a top industrial sector for production and innovation capacity.

The expected growth of the global pharma market at a CAGR of between +5 and 8% to 2028 will drive machinery for packaging pharma products sector, which for its part will grow at a rate of 2.8% per year, achieving in 2027 a value of as much as 961.2 million euros higher than in 2022.

Developed by CONAI, differENTI is the platform that gathers together key information on how Local Authorities implement the circular economy through sorted waste collection and prevention initiatives for waste produced and its environmental impact.

With the publication of Decree-Law no. 19 of 2 March 2024, a new tax credit was issued for investments made in the two-year period 2024-2025 in relation to the “Transition 5.0 Programme”. The aim of the measure is to support the digital and energy transformation of enterprises.

Held at l’Archivolto in Milan, the award ceremony for the 10 Best Packaging 2024 awards was enlivened by the presenter Natasha Stefanenko and numerous guests, who presented interesting projects with strong elements of innovation.

The answer lies in a study that CONAI commissioned to the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, with the aim of investigating how an idea of packaging innovation is conceived and developed. To this end, a number of winning companies of the Conai Competitions between 2019 and 2022 were selected, on the basis of the material treated, the market sector and the ecodesign levers activated.

The concept of Vitalism (living stronger and longer) is the main theme of the second edition of CosmoVision. The study offers a predictive insight into macro-social trends and their effects in the beauty sector until 2029, with the objective providing strategic insights into the sector.

After its membership of WPO (World Packaging Organisation) and EPIC (European Packaging Institutes Consortium), its membership of Europen represents a further strategic step towards internationalisation.

Pallets, industrial packages, boxes and corks: the wooden packaging family is composed of these different types. The final 2022 data of the segment and the first analyses of the year just ended are presented below

The result of ItaliaImballaggio’s recent survey: for 75% of interviewees, the PPWR will have negative effect on companies and the solutions proposed will be difficult to put into practice.