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THE NEW FRONTIERS OF PACKAGING ON SHOW IN MOSCOW
Rome (Ign) - Italian packaging machinery is heading for Russia. Between 30 January and 2 February 2007, Moscow will be hosting Upakovka/Upakitalia (http://upakovka.messe-duesseldorf.de), the international fair for machinery, systems and equipment used in the packaging and printing of packing materials, organised by Duesseldorf Messe. This is an event in constant growth: in the last edition there were present over 25000 professionals from the sector and 360 exhibitors from 23 countries. And many of them went back home with a contract under their belt. The Russian market is in fact one of the most flourishing in the sector and in 2005 imports reached levels of €455m. Among the largest suppliers of Russia are Germany and Italy, which also this year will be present at the fair with a collective delegation organised by the Italian Institute for Foreign Trade (ICE), in collaboration with Ucima (www.ucima.it), the trade association for packaging machines, and with that of printing machinery, Acimga (www.acimga.it).
In the sector of packaging, Italian machinery is in the front line on all the world's major markets: Central and South America (+28.9%) and the Asian continent (+13.7%) have seen the greatest growth in exports, but the USA has kept its position as leading export market. In 2005, 88% of turnover in the sector came from exports, up by 4% on the previous year, and the trade surplus rose from €2.3bn to €2.5bn. 2006 also started on the right foot, seeing that in the first quarter, turnover and exports were up respectively by 8.7% and 6.84% on the same period of 2005. This was down above all to the Bologna packaging district, where there are concentrated 177 businesses (around 45% of Italy's as a whole). The figures for Bologna's businesses, which account for 68% of the work force in the sector, realising a turnover of €2.18bn (around 70% of the national total), manage to drive the entire sector: Bologna's "packaging valley" focuses above all on new emerging markets like India and Thailand.
The Italian industry of printing and converting machines is also in good health. In 2005 turnover was up by 4.5% and exports by 8.7%: 77% of turnover is accounted for by foreign markets, and the trade balance shows a surplus of €500m. Italy is the world's 4th largest exporter, and exports have particularly grown to non-EU countries (+22.8%) and to Central-South America (+22.1). In total, Europe absorbs 60% of exports, while the USA remains the major export market also in this sector. The types of machinery most sold are printing machines (27%), followed by those for converting (26% ): two areas in which Italian industry has always boasted technological excellence, in particular in rotogravure and flexographic machines, with extremely high specialisation in transforming machines, used for packing and the paper/cardboard industry.
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