For more than twenty years a reference point in nutraceutical and pharmaceutical packaging and the first plastic packaging producer to earn the B Corp Certificate, Punto Pack (Parma) took over MAV (Bologna) in the summer of 2021. Founded in 1965, Punto Pack is an established manufacturer of wide mouth packaging for cosmetics. And today, together, they form a group with revenues in excess of 30 million in 2022.
As Roberto Nisica, President and CEO of Puntopack tells us, "We were very comfortable and optimistic about the operation that gave life to the Punto Pack / MAV Group, which aims to make the most of the numerous parallels between the two enterprises: the strong similarities on a technical and production level, along with attention to sustainability and the environment and a strong propensity for service developed over time. We planned long term investments," Nisica continues, "with the intention of creating an entity that places customers and the environment where we live in the fore front, setting a positive example, producing plastic packaging in a completely sustainable way."
Environmentally friendly ideas and actions for growth
The attention that both companies pay to compensating for their emissions and generating 100% recyclable products verges on the maniacal.
In 2021, they made double the number of recycled plastic items than in the past, and they also doubled the production capacity of their photovoltaic facilities, which during the day make an important contribution to reducing power consumption. What's more, in the past 3 years, Punto Pack and MAV have optimised their production, drastically reducing scrap and waste generally.
And these are just some of the initiatives that will lead the group to achieve a positive carbon footprint within the next 3/5 years, much sooner than what was hoped by major international bodies.
The separate locations of the production facilities in Parma and Bologna is an additional factor in favour of sustainable development: their central location in regard to Italian and European market, where the group has 95% of its operations, indeed simplifies all stages of logistics and transportation.
Lastly, from a technical standpoint, in addition to their top class production machinery and validated pharmaceutical production facilities and systems, the primary asset of these two companies is their ability to work in partnership with their customers, with the aim of developing packaging products which, in addition to containing valuable cosmetics, turn into marketing mediums and items of distinction.
