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Kimbo Moka Line: more info on the pack

Italians coffee experts? This may not be entirely the case, as emerges from a research promoted by Kimbo* on Italian consumers with insights into the packaging of the various coffee brands. The study is in fact gives a glimpse of a segment dominated by a certain staticity and excessive uniformity in language, which does not provide clear information about the product and its organoleptic characteristics.

In order to bridge this gap, Kimbo has revamped the graphic design of its 9 blends in the various formats available, with the aim of providing the customer with more detailed information, helping them navigate among the many available blends and find the one closest to their tastes and preferences. The new project, devised in collaboration with the Goodmind design agency – Pininfarina Group, also includes some advice on how to enjoy coffee, serve it and store it.

* Research carried out  by Gfk on a panel of 110 consumers in Milan, Padua, Rome and Naples.

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Ideas to be glued

The Venetian web-printer Pixartprinting offers quality stickers and labels online, offering new decorations & finishings and a broader range of original materials and special papers, thanks to its constant investment in systems and equipment. The print and finishing solutions are hence guaranteed by a HP Indigo WS6800 system (which allows one to obtain accurate and bright colors of great visual impact) and by Smag Galaxie III, a modular digital finish unit for protective UV varnishing, diecutting and preparation of the product on roll, efficient for small runs.

The new ad hoc solutions for the wine industry are at an advanced stage of development: special papers and quality finishes for labels compatible with small-to-medium wine producers’ application technology, respecting the high production rates required.
As well as the excellent hexachrome printing (CMYK + orange and green), the roll format (33cm; 16,5cm; 11cm and 5,5cm) and a reliable delivery service, constitute the strongpoints of Pixartprinting’s label offer.

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Connected fragrance in a sculpture

PYD Perfumer y Diseño has designed the packaging for the new Starck Paris line of perfumes (inspired by designer Philippe Starck), winning the Diamond Award  in the  Pentawards 2017 contest.

The product is a collection of three perfumes, feminine, masculine and neutral. The concept was to create three distinct and independent designs that when together, both as bottles and as  packaging, would interlink to form one sculpture, featuring a fluidity of forms.

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Compostable coffee pods with CCM

Sacmi intercepts the strong expansive dynamics of the coffee segment in capsules, proposing an unprecedented application of its CCM (continuous compression moulding) technology, used world-wide in the production of beverage capsules.

Started up in 2014, the R&D project that has led to the application of this technology to coffee packaging is confirmed as the solution that guarantees the lowest running costs of the industry thanks to reduced cycle times, reduced consumption and to the complete guarantee of process repeatability. Decisive for the result, the opportunity that compression technology provides  in handling  each cavity independently, thus allowing maintenance on off-line dies with minimum machine stops. A multilayer solution is also being studied.

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Story of Sulapac® and of sustainable luxury

The roots of Sulapac® innovation can be found in the Finnish forest. The founders of Sulapac, Suvi Haimi (PhD) and Laura Kyllönen (PhD), wanted to develop a beautiful and ecological cosmetic packaging material to reduce the plastic waste.
Sulapac® material is based on wood and natural adhesive, which makes it biodegradable.
It can also be mass-produced using methods and facilities that now make plastic (injection molding, extrusion and blow molding techniques), and it can make the cut for almost any kind of packaging.
Versatile and eco-compatible, it offers unlimited design possibilities, as well as providing excellent barrier properties to moisture, oils and oxygen.A sustainable luxury concentrate that has convinced the Niki Newd® brand, which has already used it to pack the soap contained in an exclusive travel set.

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One by one from a cardboard dispenser

Awarded by the German Packaging Institute, the “One Up” packaging concept by rlc | packaging group makes specific industry products stand out at the POS. Through a simple up and down movement of the inner carton, the product (including button-shaped chocolates and hard candy, as well as for lozenges and tablets sold in the pharmaceutical/OTC sector) pops up one by one.
Simple and hygienic, One Up is manufactured from 100% renewable materials. Both the outer shell and inner section containing the product are made of cardboard. Despite an elaborate appearance, the interior construction is injection molded from fiber-based, food-safe, PaperFoam and is biodegradable. Along with a unique user experience, the single-material packaging guarantees eco-sustainable

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Cardboard of excellence: Italian pride

For the first time in the history of the Carton Excellence Award (promoted by ECMA- European Carton Makers Association and Pro Carton), an Italian company has won the “Carton of the Year” section.
The company is Lucaprint, which on 22 September at the awards ceremony at the Residenz Building in Salzburg, received the prestigious acknowledgement for a packaging made with BillerudKorsnas carton for Geometrie Cividât gin produced by the Domenis 1898 distillery in Friuli.
The jury, called to evaluate the sector’s European excellences, was struck by Lucaprint’s distinctive features, its customer approach and approach to each single project, that results in the typically Italian talent of interpreting design as a synthesis of functionality and beauty.
The pack, only apparently simple, is appealing to the eye: a diagonal cut moves the symmetry and rigid geometry of the box, arousing interest and curiosity. But the true surprise comes when one opens the pack, which reveals a spherical bottle, perfectly protected and presented, thus giving an impression of a great equilibrium of shapes. The attentive packaging design has in fact enabled the refined and harmonious integration of all the product elements, drawing the consumers’ interest when on the store shelves.

Lucaprint Group has been working in the field of cartographic printing for 64 years. Made up of four companies – Lucaprint, Sa.Ge.Print, Co-Ver and WorkUp – integrated into the business image chain, from project to packaging, to print, to web and multimedia image, the group employs 120 persons, invoicing around 19 million euros and operates on the Italian and European markets. After a growth process along external lines made in recent years, the Vicenza group headquartered in Pianezze is now among the top 10 Italian converters. An in-depth review of its own production model according to the principles of Lean Manufacturing, has allowed it to streamline organizational, business and production processes, significantly increasing overall efficiency. It works for the food & beverage, industrial, detergent, optical, parapharmaceutical and cosmetic sectors.

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Glass design

Now in its 14th edition, this year’s Bruni Glass Design Award (previously Progetto Millennio) is a biennial design contest for new glass containers for food products (bottles and jars using mechanical hollow glass technology) among the students of several European schools of design.
Of the 261 models presented over the course of the contest’s history (which thereby earn a place among the Bruni Glass product range), 60 have gone on to be produced at an industrial scale, generating 270 articles with various capacities, colors and closures.

Best in show, 1st Prize in category “spirits” and Best Graphic Design Skyskaper (Stefano Morazzoni, Politecnico di Milano): the bottle reproduces the image of a skyscraper, resulting in a striking image for the high impact demands of the spirits market.

1st Prize in category “wine”
Lisianthus (Carlotta Antonietti, Politecnico di Milano). The light and elegant shape of this design is inspired by the eponymous flower. Transparent beauty for sparkling wines.

1st Prize in category “olive oil and vinegar”
Jazz (Annika Rauch, University of Münster, D). The shape of the handle enables hanging the bottle as well as easier pouring. The doubling shape creates a stylized heart.

1st Prize in category “jars”
Sweety (Fabrizio Guarrasi, Politecnico di Milano). Sumptuous, surprising lines characterize the design of this jar for candies.

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The spirit of the times in 4 boxes, or rather 5

The third edition of the “Box in Box” collection by Leonhard Kurz (for which Luxoro is exclusive representative for Italy), that  simply and playfully shows decoration and print solutions,  capable of creating modern effects for an attractive and seductive packaging: four boxes nested into one another, represent four popular trends and as a surprise, a last box illustrates a fifth trend. They conjure up the appeal and charm of natural phenomena, closed in the “the Art of Life” box, traversed by iridescent light reflections;  induced by microstructure stamping and holographic design playing in different colors, amplifying the playfully tactile charm. The printing of the lines on the flat, in relief and in bas relief turns the box into a unique sensorial experience.
And it is again nature that is the source of inspiration of “I-Skin”, featuring a light and delicate surface, featuring a perfectly symmetrical and softly pulsating form.