Facts and data

2016 is the year of the “best  environmental packaging”. The event organized by the Istituto Italiano Imballaggio, this year in collaboration with CONAI, in fact offers stories of environmentally friendly packaging. With the winners on show at the Milan Design Week, the Oscar awards ceremony will be held April 15.

Preview and new features at SPS Italia 2016 (24 - 26 May 2016, Parma) where a demonstration area will help people understand what “Industry 4.0” actually is.

The Italian beauty industry: data, characteristics and evolution of a manufacturing sector with strong growth potential in both domestic demand and especially in exports. Plinio Iascone

Figures and sector strategies evermore oriented towards sustainable and functional packaging, popular with consumers. by Riccardo Ceredi

The motion control giant Moog Inc. and the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) have signed an agreement for the creation of a joint laboratory, called Moog@IIT, in order to develop a new generation of technologies for the movement and control of autonomous robots.

In mid-January 2016 Cosmografica Albertini SpA formalized the purchase of Industrie Grafiche Servi (Busto Arsizio, VA).

When the 400,000th truck made by Yale Europe Materials Handling came off the assembly line at its facility in Craigavon, Northern Ireland, the concern celebrated with an extraordinary charitable donation: on 19 January 2016, during an official ceremony, the Veracitor VX model was delivered to Oxfam, an international charity that has quickly responded to water crises around the world, supplying…

A lively 2016 indeed for Live-Tech Srl, that is busy preparing the launch of an innovative range of products that will shortly be presented to the international community.

Industrial systems for hot and cold gluing: efficient products and strategies that are “environmentally and user friendly” by one of the sector’s leaders. With 40 years under its belt, Robatech confirms its intention to leverage the gains it has made to grow further.

THE BOLOGNA-BASED FIRM NIMAX (which markets coding and marking, control & safety and labeling systems in Italy) has won “Sales Channel of the Year 2015”, which Loma System (global producer of quality control, checkweigher, x-ray detection and metal detector systems) awards each year to its most efficient distributor.

Tech:Art, or rather Technology and Art: these are the “tools” which the Piedmontese converter (based in Trovatello, TO) makes available to its customers.

9% turnover growth in 2015 for Marchesini Group, which looks to less mature markets outside Europe to consolidate its position and drafts a Code of Ethics.

Cartotecnica Goldprint has doubled its turnover and multiplied its machine pool, production technologies and offer in one fell swoop, and now it has set its sights on foreign markets. Folding and rigid boxes for luxury goods, personal care, food and pharmaceuticals, but now also displays and posters, all in a quality offer with careful attention to service.  Stefano Lavorini

Fiere di Parma has a record year and looks to internationalization with the Koelnmesse Italia agreement. This year at Cibus Tec will be the debut of European Pavilions, which will bring the best European food processing & packaging technologies to the fair. Coming soon, an Italian delegation will appear at the first edition of ProFood Tech 2017.

On 11 and 12 May next, at the Spring Studios in Manhattan, Cosmopack will be organizing a B2B networking workshop featuring international companies and the excellence of beauty “made in Italy” in all its different forms, from packaging to make-up.

The column dedicated to Italian companies operating in the packaging with a keen eye to the possibilities of growth and development abroad Born out of the collaboration between ICE-Agenzia and Edizioni Dativo. The network of ICE offices abroad will provide a regular update on the development of the packaging in the short/medium term in selected countries.

The competition came into being with the intent of showcasing the innovation and the creative proposals of the new fragrances launched on the Italian market, to promote perfume and favour the growth of the Italian firms that operate in the sector.

Accademia del Profumo gathers the fruits of tradition and the challenges of the future. Thus Straordinario Sentire, the narrative promotional space dedicated to the perfume culture, comes into being. Announcement of the imminent opening of an itinerant olfactory path in the oldest botanical gardens in Italy and, dulcis in fundo, the nominations of the Accademia del Profumo Award 2016, which will…

Favini proves its vocation for creativity and its competencies by presenting at Luxe Pack two models of sustainable reuse of raw materials: in the luxury spot light are Remake, a premium paper obtained from the waste products of processing leather, and Naturally Clicquot 3 paperboard, made from grape byproducts of Veuve Clicquot wine, awarded by Formes de Luxe.

For Enoplastic, sustainable development is not just an ethical and social matter, but a matter of identity and strategy. At the last Simei, the concern amazed visitors with two decisively green proposals: the capsule solutions Derma and Greenleaf.