Back at CMC,
China large capacity automatic filling machine detailss Factory Francesco Ponti is relaxed.It now employs 300 people and has revenues of 50 million euros - thanks mainly to CartonWrap, which measures goods coming down a conveyor belt through a scanner and wraps each in a custom-made box.com."Scale is a problem for our industry and consolidation is already under way," said Maurizio Marchesini, chairman of Marchesini Group, which specialises in packaging for pharmaceutical products.Machinery is Italy’s top export, worth almost 50 billion euros (USD 57 billion) last year and a rare bright spot for a stagnant economy plagued by low productivity and high unemployment."The machines may not eat lunch but they do need breaks, for on-site technicians to fix problems and clean away the excess hot glue that can clog the machine.
And leading the pack is - automated packaging - growing nine times faster than the economy as a whole, according to the trade association UCIMA."We doubled our turnover in the last three years and I think we will double it again in the next three years," said CMC Chief Executive Francesco Ponti."We were doing it manually but the problem was handling the volumes," Tim Fronzek, co-founder of the German online retailer reBuy.His father, Giuseppe, a technician with a local packaging company, founded CMC in 1980 in a domestic garage not far from the frescoed 16th century palazzi of Città di Castello."."The machines have allowed us to manage the packaging process more efficiently, and process all outbound shipments in just a few hours with the help of two or three employees.Production capacity is also limited - CMC can only make five or six machines a month, though it plans to double that soon."
There are no more people who want to do this job by hand," he said. Avoiding these are imperative. Several brands are now coming up with packaging free products like soap and shampoo bars.Some examples are using a metal razor instead of the disposable plastic ones. There are several steps we can take to make our beauty routine more eco-friendly.Also try to avoid plastic microbeads in your exfoliators. This reduces the amount of disposable waste as well as its manufacturing cost. Swap your single use items with more durable and long-lasting alternatives.. Here are four handy tips with which we can prioritise the environment, as suggested by Tatler:Ditch the disposablesNow, people avoid using plastic bags and make it point to use reusable cloth bags.
