Interview with Davide Garavaglia, General Manager & Head of PL GECLV

With the packaging market demanding agility, efficiency and increasingly sustainable solutions, BOBST has once again demonstrated its leading role in transforming the industry. During an open day at its Competence Centre in San Giorgio Monferrato (Italy), the company presented the latest innovations in rotogravure and lamination for flexible packaging production. We spoke to Davide Garavaglia, general manager of the Centre and responsible for BOBST's Gravure, Vacuum Coating and Lamination Product Lines, to find out more about how these technologies are redefining industry standards and what role automation, digitalisation and connectivity play.

 

INFOPACK: At the BOBST Flexible Packaging Open House 2025 event, the company presented its ‘innovation for a sustainable future’. What are the key technological advances BOBST has recently developed to make flexible packaging more environmentally friendly without compromising performance?

DAVIDE GARAVAGLIA: The entire packaging industry is facing the challenge of producing more sustainable packaging, and it’s a challenge we have faced head on here at BOBST.

In particular, the flexible packaging industry is at the forefront of developing improved recycle-ready packaging substrates. Together with leading industry partners, we have helped to pioneer the oneBARRIER family of industrially viable recycle-ready mono-material ultra-high and high barrier duplex and triplex substrates. The oneBARRIER solutions enable printers and converters to deliver flexible packaging that aligns with brand owners’ sustainability goals and comply with regulatory demands. It’s a big step forward.

It's not just about the substrates though, we are improving sustainability elsewhere, for example through the reduction of waste. Take smartGRAVURE, which revolutionizes the gravure printing process from being a highly manual operation to...READING MORE AT https://www.infopack.es/revista/323/index44.html