Facts and data

With the launch at interpack of the “WMP - We Make Packaging” brand, conceived by Ucima to promote the Italian packaging machine manufacturing sector at global level, the Italian Employers Association continues to disclose the market trends revealed by the Mecs Study Centre, a summary of which is given here.

Ethics and packaging in 14 moves: over to … the Ambassadors

The 9 winners of the 2023 edition of the Best Packaging competition, dedicated to the theme of Quality Design, received their awards on 21 April during the Milan Design Week.

Digital technologies improve the effectiveness and flexibility of production processes: facts and considerations taken from the third edition of the Industrial Software Forum.

DNV* proposes an approach based on unique definitions and shared measurement systems.

GS1 Italy photographs the principles of circularity in the processes of eight retail leaders.

The 2023 edition of the “Il Cubo” report drawn up by the Ucima-MECS Study Centre has been published: automatic machines record +3.8%, while the forecasts for 2026 are driven by the Asian demand and food.

A meeting dedicated to printing took stock of the Group's strategies with interesting numbers on activities in Italy.

Italians have welcomed 2023 with an unexpected interior serenity, looking to the future with confidence, despite fears and concerns. They are acting with particular rationality, putting individual well-being first, starting from the food they eat. This is the photograph taken by the two surveys of the Coop Research Centre conducted in December 2022: “The year to come” in collaboration with Nomisma and “Planning 2023 and Beyond”.

A website in seven languages and a community of tens of thousands of users: a dissemination and communication project run online.

We have already spoken in detail of SIT Group, but we are continuously discovering new things that require us to update the agenda. Let’s therefore take stock of this organisation which is one of the most dynamic in the world of flexible packaging in Italy.

The finalists in the Best Packaging 2023 Contest, promoted by the Italian Packaging Institute and sponsored by the Fondazione Carta Etica del Packaging (Packaging Ethics Charter Foundation), will be on show during Milan Design Week. The Award ceremony is on 21 April.

With the EU’s objective of making all plastic recyclable and reusable by 2030, companies strive to transition from linear towards a circular economy.

The European Statistics Handbook 2023 and Trend Report 2023 publications by FRUITLOGISTICA offer qualitative data, analyses and an outlook of trends in the fruit and vegetables sector.

According to the Manhattan Associates consultancy firm, 2022 was the year of a return to customary habits, even though the pandemic imposed a number of important changes in lifestyle and consumer habits, first and foremost in the widespread use of e-commerce which today flanks the physical store, forcing the retail industry to find multi-channel solutions.

Between 2019 and 2021 the financial statements of corporations operating in the bottling and production of mineral water and soft drinks showed decidedly positive values.

The commendable work of technical dissemination on the part of ANIE Automazione continues with the recent publication of a white paper by the Industrial Software Working Group

2022 data on the sector, market segmentation and types of packaging.

Created out of the synergy of Induplast, Verve, Vexel and Petroplast, Induplast Packaging Group offers the cosmetics industry a wide range of standard and full custom packaging.

The Hera Group, CURTI and the University of Bologna work together on carbon fibre recycling. The imminent start of construction of a specialised factory in Imola forms part of the project which, in consideration of its environmental value, has obtained European funding within the scope of the NRRP, for a value of over 2 million euros.