Facts and data

The battle for guaranteeing the safety and to avoid the adulteration of food oil on restaurant tables now at last finds support in the “banning” of the so-called cruets. Indeed the Italian Chamber of Deputies last June 11th approved an amendment to EC law that had in fact up to now vetoed the labeling and the obligation for restaurants and public businesses to use bottles with anti refill tops.

Organization, service and technology: the growth of Robatech and the new “melt on demand” system launched at Interpack.

Communication and sharing: these are the ideals on which Antonio Feola, newly elected president of Istituto Italiano Imballaggio for 2014-2016, intends to operate, marking his presidency’s continuity with that of his predecessor Angelo Gerosa.

From June 1st, in line with the combination wished for by Confindustria and specified during the last special assembly, Acimga and Assocomaplast have unified their headquarters and started the process of merging their technical/standards, study and service and information technology offices.

The Swiss concern Interroll, world supplier of intralogistical products and solutions, is reinforcing its presence in Russia thanks to a distribution agreement with Kifato MK. The Russian trading house trades dynamic storage solutions including rolls, motors and drives for transport systems, as well as conveyors and sorters, even though not exclusively.

The contribution of young people; the enterprise as a shared asset; the meaning of internationalization; the orientation of innovation... Reflections of Alfredo Aureli, president of Aetna Group, in an interview at Interpack, in which the entrepreneur explains why it’s reasonable to be optimistic.

CIESD Srl was founded in 1979 as the realization of a dream of Francesco Petrillo, who with it created a family company that is now renowned in Italy as well as internationally, and who has managed to pass on the values that have always distinguished his concern on the market not only to his daughters Manuela and Marica, but also to all CIESD’s employees.

FOCUS ON INNOVATION Shrewd “specialisation in everything”, strong R&D orientation (linerless and anti-counterfeit the latest new features), a paintaking market (and competitor) relations policy capable of ensuring more service to the users. Pilot is experiencing two digit growth on a market that is moving again. This too also in Italy. Elena Piccinelli

Super Film continues to grow as a leading producer of flexible packaging, label and technical films, offering one of the widest product ranges in the field.

The online survey “Best Employer 2014”, conducted in Germany by Focus magazine, has elected Ensinger GmbH (a plastics converter) as the best employer among candidates in the category of machine and plant engineering/multi-technology industrial sector.

FOOD AND BEVERAGE Structure and trends of the market in Italy, with a distinction of the different types of packaging destined to the two sectors.

A committee of experts from major multinationals is helping identify the needs of the market and the issues to look at more closely; the offer on show covers the entire processing/packaging/logistics industry, divided according to a rational and straightforward layout with coherent areas and “showcases” dedicated to innovation...

The spring assembly of the Flexible Packaging Group (member of Assografici) meeting in Milan last April 16th elected a new Executive Committee that has chosen Dr. Michele Guala, CEO of Safta SpA as its President.

The consolidated alliance between the Gruppo BolognaFiere, Federfarma and Cosmetica Italia has resulted in more than 70 engagements, including workshops, conventions, CME courses and theme conferences that animated the three-days of Cosmofarma (9th-11th May), attracting over 27,500 Italian (+14%) as well as foreign (+22 %) visitors.

«Every journey begins with the exciting challenge of imagining what lies ahead».
How is the relationship between brand and consumer changing? What factors are influencing the evolution of the paradigm in this sense? And what actions need to be taken in order to face a future that is looking to be radically different in terms of the development, production, distribution and communication a…

SNAPSHOT OF A SECTOR A balance of activities and values of packaging destined for the various forms of pharmaceuticals in Italy.

Marchesini Group is now 40 years old and celebrates by opening the gates of its Pianoro works. A showroom, a museum that tells the history of the company, routes that show the new organization of production and many, many machines. Numerous the visitors, including the 150 sector operators that came by plane during Interpack, and great optimism in the words of President Maurizio Marchesini:…

New paradigms People who think of people, who design a product capable of entering the life of each and anyone of us, and aboveall, capable of remaining there. The new frontier of the cosmetics market is “sharing”: the sharing of a dream - that illuminates many personal “I-worlds” - but also, first and foremost, the sharing of competency and culture, in order to multiply the potentialities that…

PRODUCTION AND TRENDS Daily hygiene and personal wellness products are indispensable, even during a prolonged crisis. Indeed, the production output of the manufacturers belonging to Cosmetica Italia has grown by 2.6% during the last year, and although the trend shows a few contractions, high growth potential persists. Numbers, choices and trends in the use of packaging follows. Plinio Iascone

Five the winners of the competition promoted by Istituto Italiano Imballaggio. This year’s theme was Quality Design and, not by chance, organized in cooperation with the Scuola del Design of Politecnico di Milano. The awards ceremony during the Milan Design Week “Fuorisalone”.