Market data

The breakdown of revenue by category of machines is not uniform but reflects their relative importance within the production process.

The Italian manufacturers of packaging technology and solutions maintained their strong export propensity in 2021 with foreign sales of €6.46 billion, 78.4% of the total.

Client sectors are divided up between food & beverage (57.1%) and non-food industries (42.9%).

In 2021, the number of employees was 36,351, up 2% from the previous year (721 more employees).

The Italian packaging machinery manufacturers’ total turnover remains stable at around €8 billion.

The Ucima-MECS Research Centre recently published the latest 2023 edition of Cube, the econometric forecasting model for the global packaging machinery market.

The Italian automatic packaging machinery sector has reported total sales revenues of €8.24 billion in 2021, an all-time high that eclipses the previous record of €8.04 billion set in 2019.