New information and trends in purchasing and sustainable consumption will be explored at the forum
The sustainability of manufacturing – from packaging onwards – will be a much-discussed topic at Bologna’s International Packaging Speaks Green Forum, scheduled from 20-21 Feb 2020 at the FICO Eataly World Congress Hall, Bologna, Italy. Organised by the Italian Packaging Machinery Manufacturers’ Association (UCIMA) the FICO Foundation, the forum aims to promote meetings and discussions among institutions, industries and academia on B2B and sustainable development.
Packaging Speaks Green will be focusing on examples to follow set by global companies, such as Coca-Cola, Fater, Alibaba, Amazon and Coop, to name but a few, which will be examining the question of sustainable industrial activities to create value and share it with stakeholders. More specifically, speakers will include Clay Dockery, vice-president of the corporate brands division at Massimo Zanetti Beverages USA; Roman Manthey, global supply chain engineering and infrastructure director at Coca-Cola Bottling Investment Group; Joseph Rake, senior packaging manager at Amazon; Chiara Faenza, head of sustainability and value innovation at Coop; Wei Ji, director of public affairs at Alibaba; and Enrico Dolce, product development and sales manager at Fater, a joint venture P&G and Angelini.
Tim Letts, deputy director for climate and energy at World Wildlife Fund (WWF), will be presenting the work done by the organization, alongside businesses, to set and achieve sustainability goals, particularly those linked to the development of low-emission business models that are compatible with brands’ economic growth. Packaging Speaks Green also aims to focus on the need to implement wide-reaching green solutions, highlighting global consumption trends and the level of standardisation achieved through the work of stakeholders in scientific and institutional fields worldwide.
Enrico Aureli, chair of UCIMA, concluded: “Sustainability must be a lifestyle and must be reflected in our everyday actions, as well as in the way we manufacture and consume – explains chair of the FICO Foundation and agro-economist Andrea Segrè – which is why the FICO Foundation is committed, together with UCIMA, to providing a forum that will bring together, in Bologna, a number of the world’s leading brands, whose responsibility it is to contribute to achieving a sustainable, circular society. The choices made by these businesses have a real impact on our future.
“Italy needs a ‘Green Industry’ plan, along the lines of that devised for the Industry 4.0 approach, and with its all-Italian production chain in the packaging industry, Italy ranks as leader and forerunner in the development of sustainable solutions and has got everything it takes to both drive and guide a green revolution in packaging materials and technologies on an international scale.”
