CONGRESSO GIFLEX 2023

un maggior impatto e cambiamento delle mansioni. Le istituzioni sono chiamate a giocare un ruolo centrale per governare il cambiamento tecnologico, confermando la centralità umana e il lavoro dell’uomo, perché se è vero che il progresso avanza velocemente, è altrettanto vero che i governi sono spesso troppo lenti nelle loro azioni.

“Materiali e tecnologie per il confezionamento sono un connubio vincente, un unico ecosistema pronto a rispondere alle esigenze di innovazione dell’intera filiera di produzione industriale che ha in IPACK-IMA MILANO il suo appuntamento di riferimento. Siamo quindi molto orgogliosi della partnership con Giflex che rafforza la proposta di IPACK-IMA, essendo l’imballaggio flessibile un settore molto ben rappresentato in fiera”, commenta Simone Castelli Ceo di Ipack Ima Srl. La fiera ha sempre dedicato un’attenzione particolare ai materiali da imballaggio, creando un brand come IPACK-Mat che riunisce le aziende che in fiera propongono materiali da imballaggio con un focus legato alle tematiche dell’impatto ambientale. L’obiettivo è creare una piattaforma di incontro e dialo-

Environment and Energy Security, Vannia Gava, the Government’s objective is certainly to protect the environment but also to safeguard the economy. After all, there is no sustainability if even just one of the factors in question is penalized. It is therefore an enormous team effort and a shared path so that no one is left behind in the ecological transition.

“The work that Giflex carries out together with the other associations is very important also because there are various situations that make us reflect and cause concern for the future of the sector. Never before it has been important to talk about packaging so that it is considered as a positive protagonist of the process. Packaging has its own role and it is no coincidence that 40% of consumers declare that they make a purchase choice thanks to the packaging, and especially for less well-known products, it becomes a fundamental purchasing driver” – Alberto

Palaveri Giflex President

TECHNOLOGICAL NEUTRALITY, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, VALORIZATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE

Carlo Stagnaro, Director of Research and Studies at Bruno Leoni Institute, in his speech clarified how the legislator should take a position on technological neutrality in relation to the new PPWR which should establish a political objective, leaving the best strategies and tools to the economic players to obtain the predetermined results.

The proposal for a European regulation on packaging starts from the assumption that circularity, sustainability and efficiency in the use of resources are interchangeable terms. Furthermore, the hierarchy in waste management establishes that prevention is the preferred choice, followed by reuse, recycling and other forms of recovery and finally disposal in landfills. But a neutral approach poses several objections. Trying go per raggiungere obiettivi comuni, uno fra tutti il “design for recycling” e mettere in mostra tutta l’innovazione che arriva dai mondi dei materiali e delle tecnologie. Ipack-Ima fa parte della Innovation Alliance insieme a Plast, Intralogistica e Print4All la cui prossima edizione è prevista dal 27 al 30 maggio 2025. to trivialize the question, is it better to have 50 tons of waste to burn or 100 tons to recycle? The proposed regulation does not take into account the costs of resources used to improve circularity. Who decides which unnecessary packaging is to be eliminated and with what effects? The benefits must be present and must compensate for the uncertainties. To force a revolution in the lives of consumers with repercussions on companies in the supply chain, the advantages must be obvious. According to the commission’s impact analysis, if we do all that has been foreseen, emissions will be reduced by 16 million tonnes of CO2 in 2040 compared to today. Is it a lot or is it a little? We are talking about 0.52% of total emissions, which translated into € are €2.3 billion a year or 0.02% of the current European GDP. Not very edifying numbers given the amount of actions required to achieve this result.

Interessante la riflessione sul mondo giovanile e la loro valorizzazione nel mondo del lavoro proposta da Vincenzo Galasso, Professore Ordinario di Economia dell’Università Bocconi, attraverso la presentazione di una ricerca sulla meritocrazia che viene vissuta negativamente, capace di alimentare forti pressioni, ansia e stress specialmente per chi non riesce a primeggiare e viene lasciato indietro. Inoltre la meritocrazia, secondo i giovani, genera un ambiente individualistico e competitivo dove si perdono di vista i valori della collaborazione e della comunità. I giovani stanno quindi elaborando un nuovo set di valori diversi da quelli vissuti e interpretati fino a oggi che li porta a essere più interessati a valori post-materialistici come per esempio i diritti.

Tommaso Nannicini, Full Professor of Political Economy at Bocconi University, catapulted the room into the complex and fascinating world of artificial intelligence, presenting the result of a dialogue with ChatGPT on future economic macro-trends. The main anxiety concerns the fact that automation and artificial intelligence can take jobs away from humans. Certainly some tasks will be replaced by technology but at the same time new opportunities will be created. Routine and therefore automatable professions will suffer a greater impact and change of tasks. Institutions are called upon to play a central role in governing technological change, confirming human and man’s work centrality, because if it is true that progress advances quickly, but it is equally true that governments are often too slow in their actions.

“Packaging materials and technologies are a winning combination, a single ecosystem ready to respond to the innovation needs of the entire industrial production chain which has its reference appointment in Ipack-Ima Milano.