INDUSTRY - Re-starting with packaging
RE-STARTING Let’s start again from ... 2*. The start of the fateful and longed for “Phase 2” in Italy has foreseen a generalized recovery of production and commercial activities. The national (and international) packaging industry has never actually closed the doors of its factories, but has indeed responded with determination to the requests of the community, asserting its strategic value on the field in times of the Covid-19 emergency. Data and facts from the real world, amidst difficulties and signs of encouragement. By the editorial staff
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or a few months, the world has ceased its headlong rush ... We listen to the silence of the cities, mourn the misfortunes of many and the failures of all too many, to trace out the boundaries of a future not free of tension and uncertainties... Hence the worldwide Corona virus health emergency would therefore seem to have torn apart the social and economic framework, painstakingly built over years of relative well-being in different parts of the globe, requiring the redesign of the rules of peaceful cohabitation. Will we be able to get back on track? The question is a must and the answer must necessarily be “yes”, regardless of the time it takes.
* A quotation freely inspired by an Italian film of some years back ... “Let’s start again from 3” said the dreamer Massimo Troisi to a pragmatic Lello Arena.
Each to their own By narrowing the field of observation to the industrial forces of the packaging supply chain, as reporters we have closely followed the reactions of many companies that, fielding specific skills and resources , have been at the forefront in providing the right support to FMCG producers, food and pharmaceuticals first of all (fully documented on our websites packmedia.net and italiaimballaggio.net). Of these companies, we want to underline the speed of reaction in managing the complexity of the moment, with the aim of also safeguarding, together with production continuity, our own human capital and more generally public health: reconversion of existing plants to create and package protective devices, donations of various sizes and in various forms, support
“Troisi: What has been has been ... enough, I start from three ... Arena: From scratch you mean!... “Troisi: Eh? ... Arena: From scratch: I start from scratch. “Troisi: No sir, I start from ... ie ... I managed to succeed in three things in life, why should I also jettison them? Why should I start from scratch? I want to start from three! “
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Maurizio Nannucci (2003), Garden of the Guggenheim’s Museo in Venice
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