Facts and data

Despite the political and financial uncertainties, Russia’s economy is growing and sustaining the demand for consumer goods.

The Australian Consul General, Mrs Simone Desmarchelier, paid an official visited last February to Nordmeccanica - the Piacenza based manufacturer of machines for the production of flexible packaging.

At the end of February the Istituto Italiano Imballaggio organized two study days on plastic and cellulose packaging.

... light can come in a spraycan? And what about the dispenser for explosives? And the compressed aerosol, the syphon for condiments, the dye applicator? The ADF Awards where technology, marketing and the imagination ran riot at the  latest  Oriex fair-conference.

Sacmi Group will transfer the entire Plastics Division to the Kingsbury Group, a large multinational based in Rochester, New York, USA: global players in the automotive, aerospace and electronic components industries, they have been doing business for over 120 years.

Italians are not foregoing on purchasing cosmetics, essential for daily hygiene and personal well-being, but are moving towards cheaper price ranges or towards better value for money: this is why the value of the cosmetics market has decreased slightly, but not the volume of products sold.

Leister Technologies enters onto the Italian market first hand by inaugurating its direct branch.

Krones, leader on the global market of filling and packaging beverages, has bought 100% of HST Maschinenbau GmbH that designs and produces homogenizers and piston pumps for food & beverage.

The SIT group continues to grow in the flexible packaging world. Figures to hand, it is surprising how the San Marino based concern has managed to maintain the balance, year after year, between results and investments, innovation and tradition. The secret?... Energy and intelligence and the capacity to dream with ones eyes open.

Mineral water bottlers and recyclers have created a voluntary consortium that will effect a closed supply chain in order to recover more PET and produce raw materials with food safe properties. Called Coripet, the new consortium brings to the table original ideas to involve supermarkets and award virtuous consumers.

Steel and aluminium containers enable bringing out the full potential of a product’s value. These completely recyclable packaging types offer many advantages in production. A testimonial by Mirato.
Editorial communication by the Association

The Quality design of Italian packaging will go on show from 8th to 13th April in Milan. Among the fringe events in the Brera Design District this year, there will in fact be a space set up at the Mediateca Santa Teresa (via della Moscova 28), dedicated to the 15 finalists of the contest organized by the Istituto Italiano Imballaggio. The awards ceremony will be on April 9th.

In memory of Bruno Gnudi, representative figure of that Bolognese technical-practical culture formed in that extraordinary school-workshop of Aldini-Valerini, that brought Italy’s machine industry to greatness.
Editorial by Stefano Lavorini

5th February last saw the holding, at the Espace Champerret in Paris, of PCD (Cosmetic Packaging Design) and ADF (Aerosol Dispensing Forum), respectively focused on packaging systems for beauty and personal care, and on the aerosol industry with its evermore varied market outlets.

SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY CHAIN Revitalizing consumption of fresh produce in largescale retail distribution goes by way of the rationalisation of packaging and logistics along the entire production-consumption chain. The sustainable development of the segment in the conference organized by Ipack-Ima for promoting Fruitech Innovation 2015.

In the November-December issue of ItaliaImballaggio we anticipated the characteristics of the state-owned Chinese company and the differences compared to the private ones, with the consequences at the negotiations table for the European supplier. Now we tackle the subject of negotiations, illustrating a typical situation, the misunderstandings that can arise and the approaches one needs to take.

The Italian companies that work upstream of pharmaceutical production have filed away a positive 2013.

Scandolara changes tack increasing the onus placed on quality and service. The Italian producer has in fact set up a Beauty Division and proposes lines of tubes specifically for high-end cosmetics.  l.g.

Despite the drastic reduction of household consumption and industrial production (-6.3%), in 2012 the waste recycling industry continued to grow.

Sustainable, appealing, intelligent, ergonomic…the packaging of the future in the projects of the big multinationals that lead the way is illustrated in a white paper “Tendances Packaging: Comment produirez-vous demain?” available also on Amazon in paperback format.