Italian Packaging Technology Award 2014: the winners visit Italy
Six American university students, winners of the award for new packaging technologies and solutions, are visiting Italy from 29 June to 6 July.
The Italian Packaging Technology Award competition, organised by the ICE Agenzia in collaboration with UCIMA, has welcomed six American and Canadian university students to Italy. The students in question are the brains behind the outstanding projects related to new materials for packaging solutions and technical innovation of the packaging machinery used in the manufacturing industry.
The projects were assessed and examined by a board of experts from the Institute of Packaging Professionals (IoPP).
Many US universities and one Canadian university offering specialised packaging courses took part in the event.
The trip to Italy, from 29 June to 6 July, is the last part of the competition, and aims to offer the students and their colleagues from different countries who were the winners of other competitions relative to the same industry (technology in ceramic manufacturing) a transversal training course based on the theme "The Italian way of doing business".The in-depth course will teach them about the uniqueness of Italian competitiveness and the business cluster model, and is scheduled to be held at the LIUC (Libera Università Cattaneo di Castellanza).
The objective of this initiative is therefore to raise the awareness of students from important foreign universities about the significance of Italian technologies. The idea is to encourage those soon destined to fill managerial roles, specifically in US and Canadian packaging and packing companies, to gain first-hand knowledge of the excellent technologies produced by the Italian market.
And with this in mind, at the end of the course, the winning studentswill go to the Modena area to visit leading companies in various segments of the packaging technology sector: Indeed, Goglio, Cavanna, Arol, Easysnap, Marchesini and Sacmi will all host the delegation at their respective factories.
During their stay, members of the delegation will also visit the Ferrari Museum in Maranello and the Museum of Industrial Heritage in Bologna.
