Editorials

These times it’s easy to be hyper critical about Italy, beset as it is by rifts that are difficult to heal and heavy contradictions. To say it outright, those who are pettily ironic about our private (and public) vices, have an easy time of it resorting to the many clichés that dog us.

Editorial by Stefano Lavorini

“There is as much difference between us and ourselves, as there is between us and the others”
Michel de Montaigne, filosofo e scrittore francese, 1533-1592
            
If it is true that there is strength in numbers, what for a small firm might be impossible is not so if one groups together… This is the essence of the matter. This the sense and the objective of the networking contract that opens the way to “a varyingly shaped virtual concern” capable of better responding to a market that is in a state of crisis, dominated by competitors and evermore sizeable and battle hardened customers.

by Stefano Lavorini

«It is worth living long and suffering the pains that an inscrutable destiny mixes with our days, if at the end we manage to gain clarity within ourselves and if the problem of all our efforts is grasped and clarified in the results of our actions».

Acceleration by Stefano Lavorini

Let’s value things. Hence, to start off the new year, let’s try and remember who we are.

Acceleration by Stefano Lavorini

January 2nd 2013 Corsico (MI) witnessed the funeral of Alfio Gianatti, CEO of Cicrespi SpA, who in just a few months succumbed to a serious illness.

Acceleration by Stefano Lavorini

We know the way things are. Istat describes an Italian work market situation that is to say the least worrying: in September 2012 unemployment reached 10.%, which means 2,774 million people without work. And on top of that, the rate of unemployment of Italians between 15 and 24 years of age is up by 35.1%.

Acceleration by Stefano Lavorini

According to Wikipedia, the sit-com (situation comedy) is a form of comedy based on the representation of the emotional and social interaction of a limited number of characters immersed in a family environment, which viewers and spectators can easily identify themselves with.

Acceleration by Stefano Lavorini

«This summer is also over and we are back…and its time to start up again».This the opening phrase of our September editorial of some years ago, but it gives me the cue for a trip down memory lane, taking a look at what I wrote over the years after the summer break, with the doubt that many are the things – the same things - still left to be done.

Acceleration by Stefano Lavorini

It’s nice to be able to establish that progress never stops, not even in this period of crisis, marked by downturns in nearly all segments of the huge world of packaging producers and users.

Acceleration by Stefano Lavorini

Ours is a difficult world. A world in which even our fears have changed, and changed for the worse. This the sense of the talk given by professor Paolo Legrenzi which closed the proceedings of the fourth edition of the Economic Packaging Conference (Venice 30th and 31st May) organized by the Istituto Italiano Imballaggio in cooperation with Conai, the Italian national packaging consortium.