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Ronchi: among the protagonists of IPACK-IMA 2012

Let’s start the countdown to one of the most important events in the field of packaging technologies, processing and logistics: IPACK-IMA 2012.

An all-Italian event, with the character and charm typical of Made in Italy, a guarantee of quality and style. Ronchi could only answer “present”, confirming itself as on of the reference points of Italian packaging industry.

Missing just over a month, but the preparations for the big event are already begun. The great kermesse, from February 28 to March 3, will animate the pavilions of the Milan fair. This is an unmissable event for all industry experts, which will have, among the exhibitors of excellence, even Ronchi.

IPACK-IMA is a fair system continuously developing and growing, both in terms of visitors both from the point of view of the consensus. Not to belie his “fame” as an event projected into the future, IPACK-IMA, this year, hosts the Innovation Corner, an area reserved for companies that want to present their technological innovations.

 

Wine is in good health, at least in the United States

Woman, 35-years old, high salary.
This is the identity of the average wine consumer in USA, according to the data elaborated by the Centro Study Vinitaly of VeronaFiere in Italy  (www.vinitaly.com).
Regardless of the worldwide economic recession, wine in the USA does not sign out any sort of crisis. During 2008, the quantity of 3.6 billion bottles of wine have been consumed, fully aligned with the consumptions of the previous year.
This is a positive trend that, during the last ten years, has witnessed to a 30% growth of wine consumption, which ought to be stop-less.
As a matter of fact, it is foreseen that, in 2012, the per-person yearly consumption will be of 13,1 liters: this figure would claim the USA as the “biggest enologic place” in the world.
Consumers’ choices are dominated by red wine that, in the USA, represents the 44% share of the marketplace

The never-ending story of aluminium

The endless life. Recycling packaging materials represents an opportunity to reduce energy consumption and to convert wastes into a wealth for economy.

Among packaging material, aluminium is 100% recyclable.  

So cans, tubes, trays, can regenerate to new life, infinitively.  

800 cans become a bicycle; 37 are necessary to produce a coffee machine; one is enough to save such energy to keep a TV-set on for 3 hours.

United States are the world leading recyclers of aluminium, just before Japan and Italy.

Recycling aluminium allows a 95% saving of the energy necessary to produce it from the raw material.