Packaging companies in Italy: innovation and dynamism power

03 May 2021

A sector of outstanding strength.

Thousands of employees, over 75% involved in process development technology activities.
Advanced technologies and materials evolving along with consumer needs.

It faced the challenging introduction of the new European regulations for the Circular Economy and strengthened by evolving and defeating the first Covid crisis.

If you want to understand how Italy is known not only for food, fashion and engines, you should enter one of our most virtuous industrial districts. Italian packaging field, the thermoplastic technical materials in particular, is made of people and companies of absolute uniqueness.

From North to South of Italy, everyone should know Italian companies such as:

  • Marin and Polano families’ companies in Friuli Venezia Giulia; Crocco, Iazzolino, Magrin, Marinelli and Bernardi - top converters in the flexible sector – and Alibardi, number one in recycling and packaging; and ISAP Group, historic cluster of rigid packaging in Veneto; Bio Virosac and Sacme, virtuous manufacturers, Pati Guarniflon, integrated with polymer processing and Faitplast, which offers its unique special film in the Triveneto area;
  • in Lombardy, Manuli technical film; Goglio, Varese “king of coffee”; Centonze, the forerunner of thermal lamination film; Varisco, high-tech mould and multilayer foil manufacturer; the Italian managing team at Corporation Sealed Air, top technical packaging brand; the Italian team at multinational Coexpan in Montonate valley; Perego, the “king of icecream”, not to mention Ticino Plast, Macplas, Decofilm and many others;
  • in Piedmont, Torta, whizzes at thermoforming, and Oderda / Clot, experts in confectionery packaging and other companies from high-tech flexible sector;
  • in Emilia Romagna, Eiffel and Infia are today super-integrated globally; Pianesani and Simonazzi families, with their European groups from the rigid packaging sector; SAFTA, a giant; Gruppo Fabbri, offering excellent products; Nucci and Rossi, top players in the PS and PP multilayer field in Cesenatico and the French Guillin giant and its ‘fully Italian’ operative premises in Massa Lombarda;
  • in Tuscany, Ponsiani, Barnini and Severini in the HDBFFS field and the Italian team from the Amcor giant;
  • in Marche, Andolfi, operating in the flexible sector, and Saviola, specialized in technical film intended for furniture applications;
  • in Abruzzo, Pieragnoli, tougher than German companies, offering artificial fibres intended for face masks and Centinari, forerunner in BIO field together with DiGiacinto, top players in R-PET film sector;
  • i Bianconi, headquartered in Umbria, and, in Campania, the renowned and internationalized D’Amato, the dynamic Racciopoli (also supporting medical supplies), Brillante, Martucciello, the Samnite Iannuzzi from Valle del Fortore and La Marca historical company;
  • in Apulia, Leone, flagship in the agrifood sector;
  • in Sicily, Cascone and Loreto, worldwide leaders in agrifilm and high-tech flexible film, respectively.

Family names that made and will make the difference in the Italian packaging industry, increasingly supported by qualified, experienced and serious suppliers. Their companies are reliable and increasingly Circular Economy oriented – the distinctive character of company quality.

Honour to them and to dozens and dozens of virtuous companies!

Italy increasingly being the access to innovation.