Sustainability

Sustainability, robotics and digitalisation are the biggest challenges facing the packaging industry. Gerhard Schubert is responding by developing cutting-edge solutions based on its established expertise.

Challenges and opportunities arising from the ecological transition were the focus of the Gipea 2022 congress, held last Sept. 22 and 23 in Sirolo (AN). The two-day event focused on the difficulties of the current geopolitical and macroeconomic scenario, but also on the resources available to companies in the sector.

An Italian manufacturer of cardboard packaging, Innova Group, reiterates its commitment to sustainability year by year by verifying, quantifying and reporting greenhouse gas emissions on the basis of its CO₂ balance, or the Corporate Carbon Footprint.

A recent study by The Business Research Company estimates that in 2022 the global market for recyclable packaging will reach a value of 28.3 billion dollars with a growth rate of +7.2% compared to 2021 and will climb to 34.2 billion dollars by 2026.

How to combine the quality of a handcrafted product with the most current demands in terms of sustainability? From this common reflection between Verallia Italia and 32 Via dei Birrai comes the desire to make the renewed bottle of 32 Via dei Birrai a communicating object, not only for the values of the brand but also for the environmental commitment.

By adopting R-Cycle, the open traceability standard for sustainable plastic packaging, Sidel is helping to support the circular economy.

It is a title that lives up to the hot themes of the moment, the one chosen for the Giflex conference “Let’s Wrap the Future!” held in Bologna on October 19.

etma presents the winners of the traditional annual competition and and underlines the reaction capacity and foresight of European tube manufacturers.

If, for some, chocolate is a devouring passion, for Venchi it means giving moments of joy and celebration, but above all the experience of a true made in Italy.

At Drinktec 2022, Vetropack showcased the world’s first returnable bottle made of tempered lightweight glass based on Echovai technology, a solution that combines low weight with ruggedness and sustainability.

Aliplast’s project is a guarantee brand that tells the story of the quality of recycled plastic: polymers and films that are the result of completely circular processes, following a model that provides for the collection of waste directly from the company and the return of the same regenerated product.

The new Vimercate headquarters of Mitsubishi Electric Italia, designed to foster collaboration and cater to a constantly evolving world of work, is off the ground.

Now, global flexible packaging and lidding films supplier KM Packaging has introduced a new alternative home-compostable C-Cling.

Present in person: this is the feature that marks the resumption of activities after the summer. In spite of the unknowns multiplying at the political-diplomatic level, the packaging world is in fact experiencing a season of great dynamism. Editorial by Stefano Lavorini.

There are 2,527 sustainable agrifood startups worldwide. Networks for distribution of food aid to vulnerable people in cities are being strengthened, leveraging different models of cross-sector collaboration for recovery and redistribution of products and food surpluses; the cold chain plays a strategic role, but is exposed to multiple risks.

Insights from the Spring Circular Economy Summit. Trends, policies and benchmarks in environmental sustainability. The role of education and legislation.

From material and energy recovery to sustainable development: in a single platform, all sectors of the circular economy. 

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.

For years, Etimex Primary Packaging, a German producer, has emphatically been pursuing the goal to make the packaging industry more sustainable.

From clothing items to pharmaceutical cases, from the logistics sector to the food and beverage sector... Many are the technological solutions developed for product packaging by DCM, which operates in the world of industrial packaging with customized and increasingly “green” proposals.