Facts and data

The Mexican market for packaging machinery and packaging is highly dynamic, Italian technology is popular with Mexican businesses and large multinationals present in the country with direct foreign investment, aimed at serving the domestic and the north American markets.

The Italian packaging machinery manufacturers have posted a 2011 turnover of more than 4,300 million euro. Forecasts are cautious for the current year. In view of the slowdown in the last few months of 2011, the projections for 2012 are in line with the previous year’s turnover levels.

ETHICAL DESIGN Fine ideas, simple and elegant, innovative but feasible at the same time, faithful to a design process that revolves around the ethics of responsibility ... And perhaps for this reason, capable of positively influencing our ways of being consumers/citizens. Suggestions from the show "Responsabilmente" and an invitation to consider the quality, values and contents of a form of…

Marketing, products and ideas for sustainability from the Gerosa Group, rethinking the value chain, from raw material to waste, finding solutions that can dramatically reduce the negative effects of human activities on the environment.

Investing in photovoltaic is worthwhile. This is borne witness to by Imballaggi Montevecchi Imola after they installed a system designed and built by Alter Eco on their company premises.

ON DEMAND Pixartprinting powers up its label web-to-print service, investing in dedicated latest generation equipment. Objective: ensure flexibility and maximum quality on both very short runs as well as with larger lots while printing on any material, with on-time delivery and “web” type costs.

FACTS AND FIGURES According to an initial balance on activity for the year 2011 the Italian glass packaging production sector has put in a good showing: export figures, linked to the performance of certain foodstuffs, are encouraging, but the Italian domestic market also put in a good performance.

FIGURES AND TRENDS The performance of a segment and packaging of various pharmaceutical forms. 2011 saw a mild slowdown in exports, while the Italian domestic market put in a good performance.
Plinio Iascone

We continue the discussion started in the "Crystal Ball" in May, on models of sales effectiveness.

The Packaging Sector in the United Arab Emirates has prospered from the expansion, diversification and growth of the national economy, which is one of the largest emerging economies in the Middle East and Africa and ranks second to the economy of Saudi Arabia.

As announced with due emphasis during Ipack-Ima: the triennial show Pharmintech (Bologna, 17th-19th April 2013), focused on process technologies and packaging for the pharmaceutical industry, is approaching its fourth edition and changes pace.
 

According to preliminary results, 2011 ended with a limited increase
of around 0.3% in terms of figures expressed in tons.

Quarterly packaging industry observatory. Situation at the
end March 2012 By Roccandrea Iascone - Istituto Italiano Imballaggio
 
 

DATA & FACTS Figures and use trends for containers ever up-to-date despite their "age", and that have been able to reinvent themselves by exploiting their traditional strengths of being tamper-proof, sturdy, guaranteeing an absolute barrier to external agents and perfect product preservation as well as being recyclable.  Plinio Iascone

IN BRIEF How and why they are appreciated: packaging high in service content for delicatessen and fresh produce.  
Plinio Iascone

DATA in brief, the numbers and characteristics of the packaging of frozen foods, vegetable and ichthyic preserves. Plinio Iascone

Environmental protection via the sun’s energy. The topic was broached in a question and answer session involving ALTER ECO (a company that designs and manufactures photovoltaic turnkey systems) and Euroscatola (producer of carboard packagings, cases and displays) by word of its AD, Silvio Cappelletti, stalwart supporter of the company’s investment and their choice of supplier.

May Lavoisier forgive us for interpreting this aphorism in our own way in order to present the activity of Cama and its new “Non Food” division, called on to take advantage of the concern’s valuable experience in secondary packaging and robotics for the food industry.

FROM THE FEDERATION 2011’s fourth quarter slows down, and not much more is expected from the first quarter of 2012. The paper and printing industry Federation provides updates on the (diverse) dynamics of printing, paper production and converting machinery, paper and board production, printing and paper converting.
 

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