Learn about the efforts being made by the industry to deal with this crisis

Packaging has proven to be an essential industry during this health emergency. We have seen its true fundamental purpose: to protect what matters and ensure that the most essential products reach everyone.

Packing and packaging is the solution to bring services and products closer to people. It is present in all production and commercial industries and guarantees maximum safety, protection and hygiene as well as ensuring the best logistics and distribution services.

As a representative of the industry, Hispack values the strength, work and commitment of companies, entities and packaging professionals to address this exceptional situation.

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WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER

“Behind the security, information and traceability of a product is the packaging industry, whose innovation creates economic value.”

JORDI BERNABEU

President of Hispack and CEO of Markem-Imaje in Spain, Italy and Portugal

“Well-protected, packaged and engineered products show how packaging works for people’s well-being as well as sustainability.”

JORDI QUERA

President of Graphispack Asociación

“Manufacturers of packaging machinery continue to work and innovate to improve the functions of packaging, without losing track of our efforts to make it more sustainable.”

MICHELE PALMA

President of AMEC-ENVASGRAF

“Packaging is essential to transport, protect and preserve consumer products and to strengthen consumer confidence."

JOSÉ MARIA BONMATÍ

Managing Director of AECOC

“Transformation will be necessary and packaging, with competitive companies and quality employment, will help social and economic recovery.”

ARTUR COSTA

President of Packaging Cluster

“Without packaging, products would not reach society. We have a very powerful packaging sector with a high domestic production capacity so as not to leave the supply chain of the products unsupplied.”

JESÚS PÉREZ

Director of the Cluster de Innovación en Envase y Embalaje

“Packaging is strategic because it solves societal challenges related to food safety, health and distribution.”

SERGIO GIMÉNEZ

Director of AIMPLAS

“When economic activity ramps up, the challenges of innovation, cost optimisation, service improvement and packaging sustainability will be even greater.”

LUIS MIRAVITLLES

Director of IQS Executive Education

“The versatility of plastic has been key in the safe and swift manufacture of products to cope with this state of alarm.”

ÁNGEL LOZANO

General Manager of CEP (Centro Español de Plásticos)

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BY COMING TOGETHER

The industry is adapting and working hard to provide knowledge and solutions to guarantee supply, train professionals and collaborate when needed. Check out this news!

↳ ASOCIACIÓN GRAPHISPACK

States the importance of industry in ensuring the supply

↳ PACKAGING CLUSTER

Donation to Parc Taulí Hospital and organising of webinars

↳ CLUSTER INNOVACIÓN ENVASE Y EMBALAJE

A request for protection as a strategic industry and providing technical and legal information on COVID-19

↳ AIMPLAS

Business collaboration and a new mask design with interchangeable filters

↳ AFCO

89 cardboard factories are still in operation

↳ BEAUTY CLUSTER

Supply problems solved by manufacturing healthcare products and adaptations to training provision

↳UNO

Logistics, an essential activity to ensure supply

↳ INFOPACK

The plastics industry is playing a key role

↳ IQS

Organise COVID-19-related virtual training courses

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THROUGH YOUR SOLIDARITY

Here are some examples of solidarity initiatives carried out by the packaging industry. If you have an initiative, share it with us and learn about them all on our social networks.

↳ CONTROLPACK SYSTEMS

Donating material to make 10,000 plastic gowns and isolate areas for sanitary purposes, as well as supporting the #YoMeCorono project

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↳ DS SMITH

Supporting local communities by donating money and equipment to charities and hospitals

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↳ GRUPO ARMANDO ÁLVAREZ

Several companies in the group have donated plastic materials for making PPE and bottles for hydroalcoholic gel

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↳ HINOJOSA

Developing and providing public authorities with separators to prevent becoming infected

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↳ MINEBEA

Our weighing solutions help in the search for COVID-19 vaccines

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↳ SAICA

Donations: €800,000 and 6,600 kg of recycled grain for PPE. Joining the #EstoNOtienequePARAR initiative

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↳ SMURFIT KAPPA

Our Valencia plant has donated boxes to the University Clinic for sending COVID-19 detection tests.

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Once we have overcome this state of emergency, the strength of the packaging industry will also be essential to relaunch economic and productive activity.

At Hispack, we are making more effort than ever to continue being the meeting point for the whole industry and to maintain this strength.

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