April 28, 2024

Italy

Microline: Middle East embraces Made in Italy technology

Microline, an Italian company dedicated to the design and manufacture of machinesand systems for the tissue industry and secondary packaging for over twenty years,has a strong propensity to export and expand into the global market. In one of itsmost recent job orders, the company supplied a roll packaging system to the AlMulla Group, a UAE-based

ROBOPAC at SIGEP 2023, a trade show dedicated to food services

The first trade fair of 2023 is in Rimini from 21 to 25 January and is dedicated to the confectionery industry and its professionals: SIGEP. Now in its 44th edition, it is an important occasion for updating and growth in the sector, and provides a complete overview of all market novelties: from raw materials and

UCIMA: Create a map of potential “community factory”

A total of 37 Italian packaging machinery manufacturers have responded to Confindustria’s appeal to voluntarily make their sites available for use in the national Covid-19 vaccination programme. A large number of companies based in many areas of the country have responded to the call to create a map of potential “community factory” sites throughout Italy,

Display of culinary finesse by titans

As a world-renowned pastry chef René Frank insists he has a responsibility to change the perception that a good desert must be high in sugar. Frank, head chef and co-owner of CODA, in Berlin, Germany, the world’s first dessert restaurant to receive a Michelin Star, is one of 60 titans of the culinary universe taking

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66% in 2020 spent more on F&B

According to a survey conducted recently among Italians about the main changes in their perception in 2020 compared to past years, 66% of respondents declared that they have been spending more on food & beverage this year than in previous years. The Consumption Observatory of ShopFully, an Italian tech company working in Drive-to-Store, asked Italians

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Packaging segment slows down in 2020

The preliminary figures from the MECS-Ucima Research Department reveal a slowdown for the packaging machinery sector. 2020 turnover drops to €7.6 billion (-5%), small falls in both domestic sales (-6.8%) and exports (-4.5%). The seemingly unstoppable growth of the Italian packaging machinery industry has suffered a temporary setback. According to the preliminary figures compiled by