The 28th International Processing & Packaging Exhibition, ProPak China will take place at the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai) from 19 to 21 June . A number of Italian leading packaging machinery companies will be present at the expo as the Italian national pavilion organized by Italian Trade Agency Shanghai Office with UCIMA, Italian Packaging Machinery Manufacturers' Association. Together we will have face-to-face communication with thousands of famous Chinese and foreign professional operators in the sector, to promote and showcase the innovative Italian processing and packaging industry while build partnerships with exceptional enterprises in the sector.
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The Italian leading packaging companies attending this year's exhibition include: Cama Group, CAVANNA SPA, DELFIN s.r.l. ' Società Unipersonale, FBR-ELPO S.p.A., Omag S.p.A., SIPA SPA
Packaging · Global trend and the Italian industry focus
The packaging industry is influenced by various factors, such as consumer preferences, environmental concerns, regulatory requirements, technological innovations, and market trends.
Sustainability
The packaging industry is facing increasing pressure to reduce its environmental impact and adopt more eco-friendly practices. This includes using biodegradable, recyclable, or renewable materials, minimizing waste and energy consumption, and improving the recyclability and composability of packaging.
Innovation
The packaging industry is constantly evolving with new technologies and designs that aim to improve the functionality, performance, and appeal of packaging. Some of the emerging innovations include active packaging, intelligent packaging, smart labels, edible packaging, and nanotechnology. Innovation is the distinctive characteristic of Italian SMEs. Attention to detail, adaptability, and tailor-made solutions are what allow the main small and medium size Italian packaging companies to remain at top in terms of innovation.
The Italian packaging industry is also committed to sustainability and environmental protection. The industry has reduced its use of some packaging materials such as plastic, glass and aluminum nearly by half, in favor of recycled products such as cardboard, over the past 10 years. The industry also aims to prevent food waste and make the most of agricultural raw materials by adopting circular economy principles and eco-design practices.
Italian Packaging Machinery
According to the latest edition of the Italian Trade Agency's packaging machinery industry report this year, Italy is China's second-ranked importing country. China's imports of packaging machinery and parts from Italy is about 248 million euros in , with imports much higher than exports.
n the packaging machinery sector, bottling or canning machines for beverage/liquid food took up the largest percent of China's imports from Italy, with imports of about 79 million euros in , accounting for 35 percent of China's total imports. The Italian imports of matching parts are also higher, at about 12 million euros, a 13% increase over the previous year. In both categories, Italy is the biggest exporter to China. In addition, China imports quite a number of packing machines from Italy, with an import value of about 71 million euros in . About 30 million euros of import value was recorded in the category of filling, sealing, labeling and encapsulation machines.
According to the data, the revenue of China's packaging special equipment manufacturing industry in is about 67 billion RMB, and the output of packaging special equipment reached 754,300 units, with a year-on-year increase of 186.4%. In terms of output distribution, it is mainly centralized in Shanghai, Guangdong, and Zhejiang. In recent years, China's machinery manufacturing capacity has been improving rapidly and is working towards automation, efficiency, intelligence, and energy saving. In the years ahead, there will be further improvements in CNC systems, mechatronics design, precision parts finishing, and steel materials.
ITA at PROPAK CHINA
The Italian national pavilion also took a prominent part in ProPak China and , prompted the cutting-edge Italian packaging machinery industry, and fostered quite a number of successful partnerships.
Italian national pavilion will also be presented at this year's ProPak China , organized by Italian Trade Agency Shanghai Office with UCIMA, Italian Packaging Machinery Manufacturers' Association.
This year, June 19-21, come and find us at the Italian national pavilion,
HALL 5.1, booth 51E60
to see more of the innovative Italian packaging machinery industry.
The 6 Italian packaging machinery companies participating:
· Cama Group
www.camagroup.com
· CAVANNA SPA
www.cavanna.com
· DELFIN s.r.l. ' Società Unipersonale'
www.delfinvacuums.com
· FBR-ELPO S.p.A.
www.fbr-elpo.it
· Omag S.p.A.
www.omag-pack.com
· SIPA SPA
www.sipasolutions.com
About UCIMA
UCIMA (Italian Packaging Machinery Manufacturers' Association) is the national trade association which represents and supports the Italian packing and packaging machinery manufacturers. It has more than 160 member companies from all over Italy, including the industry's primary leaders and works in close cooperation with AMAPLAST (Italian Plastics and Rubber processing Machinery and Moulds Manufacturers' Association), strengthening the offer of Italian technologies for the international investors.
UCIMA Member companies cover the entire range of packaging machinery production, from food, confectionary, and tobacco industries to pharmaceuticals, chemicals, petrochemicals, cosmetics, and end-of-line technologies. These companies contribute to making Italy one of the world leaders in packaging machinery, with a global market share of 22,5%, with the United States, France and China being the top export markets.
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web'www.ucima.it
About ITA
ITA ' Italian Trade Agency is the Governmental agency that supports the business development of our companies abroad and promotes the attraction of foreign investment in Italy.
With a motivated and modern organization and a widespread network of overseas offices, ITA provides information, assistance, consulting, promotion, and training to Italian small and medium- sized businesses. Using the most modern multi-channel promotion and communication tools, it acts to assert the excellence of Made in Italy in the world.
ITA operates worldwide from a large network of Trade Promotion Offices linked to Italian embassies and consulates and working closely with local authorities and businesses.
ITA provides a wide range of services overseas helping Italian and foreign business to connect with each other: identification of possible business partners; bilateral trade meetings with Italian companies, trade delegation visits to Italy; official participation in local fairs and exhibitions; forums and seminars with Italian experts.
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ITA ' Italian Trade Agency has been in the People's Republic of China for more than 50 years with now 4 offices respectively in Beijing, Shanghai, Canton, and Hong Kong organizing hundreds of promotional activities every year to enhance the relationship between China and Italy.
ProPak Asia will highlight cutting-edge solutions that meet major trends impacting the manufacturing and packaging sectors.
ProPak Asia
Date: 15-18 June
Venue: BITEC, Bangkok, Thailand
Online registration: https://bit.ly/36ZrxxL
To highlight the importance of ProPak Asia and the benefits that Thai businesses and entrepreneurs will get, the organiser, Informa Markets, has processed the data from global situations and industrial insights into seven upcoming manufacturing and packaging trends. With this information available, businesses can find the right solutions in advance.
Ms. Rungpetch Chitanuwat, Regional Portfolio Director - ASEAN at Informa Markets - Thailand, said, 'ProPak Asia is the most sought-after gateway to the new era of 'Industry 4.0.' With exciting advanced technologies, manufacturing and packaging can be effectively enhanced for quality products. Meanwhile, sustainability can be retained for our planet in various dimensions, from the environment to society and humanity. Thus, whether you are manufacturers, entrepreneurs, investors, business owners of all sizes, or interested visitors, you are encouraged to visit his trade show to explore business opportunities and new experiences.'
7 rising manufacturing and packaging trends
1. The Great Resignation to The Manpower of Nowhere
As a result of the great resignation worldwide, office workers and laborers in the manufacturing sector voluntarily quit their jobs; because they have seen the opportunities for growth and expansion in their hometowns. As for Thailand in particular, access to digital technologies; and a strong logistics network are just the beginning of the Big Quit. The next chapter involves a high-speed rail system. That means workers no longer need to have their settlements in industrial zones. They are more satisfied if they can work without limitations of time and place. More importantly, employment contracts tend to be shorter based on laborers' satisfaction. Besides, the country's fundamental public health security enables workers to work more freely. Therefore, business owners need to find new solutions to rely on the workforce as little as possible.
2. Rising of Automation
Automatic machinery and robotics have evolved from unaffordable industrial exhibitions to become helpers for better manufacturing. Now automation technology has become a key industry driver. After the global supply chain disruptions due to the Covid-19 pandemic: the improvement of risk assessment in the manufacturing sector has become an important issue and put pressure on businesses across the globe to control risks of labor shortage, improve manufacturing processes and see risk factors sooner. As a result, one rising trend is the adoption of automation and semi-automation in manufacturing processes. This trend begins to change from temporary use of hi-tech equipment to a fuller system of Smart Factory and Smart Processing, such as advanced sensor-equipped machinery with thorough data collection capability and inspection tools.
3. Practical 5G & IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things)
Countries active in growth and development have been through the trials of 5G & IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) and started to launch industrial products that support these technologies for entrepreneurs to utilize. Specifically, M2M or Machine to Machine communications, in which machines can quickly communicate and send data to one another, help built-in AI learn, process data, and work together seamlessly. It can help reduce the use of the workforce, enhance ingredient and energy management, and minimize damage to finished products. If overseas maintenance experts are needed, many sensors installed in the machines can quickly send and process data into 3D augmented reality or AR, enabling the experts to control the maintenance directly from abroad. It is called Virtual Digital Twin in Manufacturing.
4. The Evolution of 3D Printing Materials
A 3D printer is an increasingly popular technology now, from large-scale productions to the SME level. Furthermore, materials technology nowadays, from plastic beams, synthetic fabrics, and woolen threads, to metal which can be printed layer by layer to create 3-dimensional objects, has made 3D printing in manufacturing and packaging more interesting in terms of the variety of materials. For example, using this technology to manufacture machine parts can help shorten waiting time and reduce parts imports. It can also play a key role in designing packaging prototypes that help cut costs and cut manufacturing time by 40-50% and encourage companies to design new packages to satisfy customers' demands more quickly or conduct market trials more easily.
5. Intelligent Packaging
Besides aesthetics, conveying brand strengths, emphasizing product highlights, and easy recycling, modern packaging has to serve more purposes. It has to allow tracing back to its source of production, processes, or quality; extending products' lifetime; reducing mold growth and bacteria; reducing erosion; eliminating gas produced by delivery or distribution processes; indicating freshness; and color changes when expiring. These functions can work through sensors, indicators, and data carriers, such as time-temperature indicators (TTIs). Traceability plays a significant part in sustainability management for the circular economy to reuse used packages as production materials.
6. Packaging for UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle)
In , Wing, a subsidiary of Alphabet, revealed it hit the 100,000 deliveries milestone. But now, Wing has hit a new record of 200,000 commercial deliveries in less than a year or more than 1,000 product deliveries a day, which means one drone delivery every 25 seconds. The drone is one of the rising Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). With a quick delivery service, the drone performs as an automatic delivery solution to the labor shortage in the logistics industry. However, when delivery modes have changed, the upcoming challenges are materials and packaging designs to support drone delivery services. What needs to be considered include hardness, weight, risk prevention from climate, etc.
7. Sustainability Pressure
Environmental problems, equality, humanity, and income distribution are issues the industrial sector can no longer ignore. These issues will be raised by consumers who pay more attention to sustainability or trading partners' policies. Manufacturers, hence, need to place more importance on sustainability in manufacturing processes, delivery, and packaging. Aside from SDGs: Sustainable Development Goals, which talk about creating equality, reducing inequality, health, and education. In terms of environment, there is EPR: Extended Producer Responsibility or a strategy in which manufacturers are given significant responsibility to cover the entire package life cycle. It is also a policy approach for producers to consider environmental impacts from designs, distribution, product return, storage, reuse, and recycling, to treatment. EU Green Deal is also an EU policy to bar imports of products that ignore sustainability issues from other regions. This policy aims to protect the environment from climate change. These policies have put pressure on businesses to turn to Brand Audit to actively inspect their brands for environmental and sustainability issues and find solutions to business survival.
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