9,62 %  increase of visitors if compared to past years, for a total of 29.600 guests coming from 63 countries.

These are the results confirming the great success of Propack Asia, the most important Asiatic event within the packaging industry.

The show, which took place in Bangkok from 17th to 20th June, has introduced a wide range of technological innovations especially studied to reduce costs and increase efficiency.

Ronchi SpA, which is present since 2007 on the Asiatic market through its own branch “Ronchi Asia Company Ltd.“,  could not miss the appointment: a Filling Machine of the EXACTAseries was operating at the Ronchi booth. Equipped with flow-meters technology, Ronchi Filler is renowned thanks to its utmost flexibility, high filling accuracy and lack of maintenance.

People dedicate an average of 35/40 minutes to the shopping tour.
80% of the shopping choices are made in a store; 70% directy in front of the shelves and 60% are dictated by packaging.
A product in a shelf disposes of just a few minutes to convince the consumer, and the marketing men are fully aware of this: since ever, they study consumers, their lifestyles, their attitudes, aimed at finding the way to attract and convince the consumer towards the product.
Not so much is known, instead, about the emotional reaction inside the shop, at least up-to-date.
The combined use of two technologies, such as biofeedback and eyetracking, allows to measure these reactions, by checking the emotional levers that determine the purchase.

U.S.A. keep on being the first destination of the automatic packaging machines produced in Italy. This has been released by the category association UCIMA, in a recently published survey referred to 2008.
The Italian industry, leader in the manufacture of automatic machines together with Germany, exports the 90% approx. of its production (data referred to the impact of the foreign sales over the total turnover). Significant is the export growth recorded towards the new markets such as Turkey and Poland.
For major information : www.ucima.it

U.S. export figures of packaging machines show a continuous growth : this is stated in a recent survey carried out by the category association PPMI (www.pmmi.org).
As a matter of fact, 2008 has recorded a sensible increase in the export, with a 9,5% growth: this outcome is led by the emerging countries such as China, India and Latin America (Mexico, Brazil and Venezuela)