Facts and data

Over the past two decades, steel packaging sent for recycling by RICREA, the National Consortium for the Recovery and Recycling of Steel Packaging, part of the CONAI System, has tripled.

FEFCO, the European Federation of Corrugated Board Manufacturers, together with CCB (Cepi Container Board), has released the new “European Database for Corrugated Board Life Cycle Studies 2021”.

The waste-to-hydrogen plant will produce up to 20,000 tons/year of hydrogen at full capacity, using 200,000 tons/year of non-recyclable solid waste as raw material

According to Assografici’s economic analysis for 2021, the converting industry - in which the paper and cardboard packaging sector falls - after a positive fourth and third quarter, closes with a 9.6% increase in turnover, also surpassing 2019 levels. Even better is the trend in production, which registers +10.6%.

From chrysalis to butterfly. This happened in Faenza, Italy, last June 22 and 23, when philosophy and the state of the art of finishing intertwined in a full immersion full of technical information, colors and flavors that was able to show the new course taken by Prati, the protagonist of a cultural and technological metamorphosis. Voices from a very special open house, under the sign of collaboration between companies.

After a positive 2020, with performance severely affected by the covid emergency, the sector is finding a new order with improving data and two key words: wellness and sustainability.

Amaplast, facts and figures 2021. Notes from the annual meeting and the statistical survey taking a snapshot of the performance of the plastics and rubber machinery, equipment and mold making industry.

With a long history behind it (in fact, one has to go back to the 1800s to find the first traces of it), metal packaging - in steel and aluminum - confirms good market positions. Numbers and trends 2021.

Word from Aliplast, which looks at the post-pandemic, raw material shortages and price tensions from an alternative and - most likely - winning point of view in several respects.

2022 is the year of a very important milestone for the Division, which has developed its business strategy by looking at both the European and American markets thanks to the subsidiary in New Jersey, MG America.

Italy is recycling more and at a lower cost. This is according to a study by Bocconi and the Wuppertal Institut presented in Brussels that not only sanctions the efficiency of CONAI's packaging management system but also highlights the ability of national companies to design green.

Assocarta and Associazione Italiana Scatolifici express concern: the presidents of the associations call for institutional intervention to govern rising prices, averting risks to production.

Fortinet takes stock with the 2022 edition of its Global Report on Operational Technology and cybersecurity.

Founded by RTA as an innovative start-up, RTA Robotics has been operating since April 2022 in the sale and integration of anthropomorphic and Scara robots offered to the supply chain of industrial automatic machine manufacturers as well as system integrators.

Facts, figures and industry dynamics in 2021 in Italy: gradual recovery of production and consumption after an anomalous 2020. Focus on packaging trends.

A three-year period of strong acceleration is emerging for the seven business communities surveyed by Ipack-Ima Business Monitor 2022, developed in collaboration with MECS.

Anticipating the technological trends of the digital world with an integrated approach, bridging the gap between the IT and OT worlds: this is the strategy behind Relatech Group’s recent acquisition of EFA Automazioni.

A survey carried out among the operators belonging to the community gathered around ALL4PACK Emballage Paris 2022 offers a snapshot of the sector’s environmental sensitivity.

After a 2020 marked by a substantial downturn (-10.3% at current values), the industrial automation market saw a meteoric growth of 22.2%, despite issues due to supply difficulties, rising commodity prices, and labor shortages.

Four-monthly observatory of the packaging supply chain: situation updated to the first five months of 2022.