Every year, with this material, almost 6.5 billion square meters of surface are produced in Italy. It is corrugated cardboard, one of the greenest packaging materials in circulation. 100% natural, sustainable (9 packs out of 10 are recovered every year) friend of the forests (for each tree cut to produce virgin fiber, 3 are planted). In addition to this it is very resistant and extremely versatile, and allows the maximum degree of customization of the packaging, allowing to better enhance the product content and the brand.
Features that make it the ideal packaging for the protection and transport of products, and become certainty of results thanks to GIFCO, the Italian Group Fabbricanti Cartone Corrugated, which in Turin met its associates for the annual budget meeting of the activities carried out in the 2015. The sector in 2015 recorded a total national production - on the surface - of 6,455,574,000 square meters (with a weight of about 3.62 million tonnes), with a growth of 1.69% on 2014.
This is the third consecutive positive result in recent years. And confirming the state of health of the sector, the turnover of the companies that compose it amounts to about 3.8 billion euro. In spite of a not always rosy national economic context, the corrugated cardboard industry therefore remains stable and strong, guaranteeing employment to over 15 thousand workers.
"The positive signs continue - announces the president of GIFCO, Amelio Cecchini - in the first half of 2016, in fact, the production in square meters has grown by 2.5%, compared to the first six months of 2015". To support this positive trend is first of all the agri-food sector, which is destined for 57% of corrugated packaging. "Then we must consider the exponential growth of e-commerce: - continues the president of GIFCO - a fundamental element for the development of our supply chain, where corrugated cardboard is the packaging par excellence for shipments of goods purchased online".
Today, according to data from the Netcomm Observatory - Milan Polytechnic presented during the annual GIFCO meeting, 1.3 billion people worldwide make purchases online. 300 million in Europe; in Italy users who shop at least once a month on the web are 19 million.
