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About us

Pro Food is the product group within Unionplast– Federazione Gomma Plastica (and member of the Italian Business Association: Confindustria) that brings together the leading Italian companies, spanning the whole European market, manufacturing plastic packaging and containers intended for the packaging, distribution, and consumption of food and beverages.

We are a group
made up of companies

The companies that form part of Pro Food have a long-standing specialisation in plastic packaging for food and beverages, while also offering packaging solutions in alternative materials, whose advantages and disadvantages they know and master. These include thermoformed or injection-moulded plastic packaging made from traditional plastics, compostable bioplastics, as well as rigid or corrugated cardboard packaging.

The main objective of Pro Food is to promote the value of plastic packaging for food and beverages, defending its central role within the value chains in which it is used, throughout the entire supply chain. This is based on the optimisation and constant pursuit of improving the overall sustainability — scientifically proven — of plastic packaging for food and beverages, at every stage of its life cycle, including:

  • Design, through eco-design, for more efficient and less impactful products.
  • Production, through the use of increasingly efficient technologies and processes
  • End-of-life, through design for recycling, in cooperation with the collection, sorting and recycling chain.

Pro Food is committed to pursuing genuine global sustainability — environmental, economic, functional and social — already achieved by the products of its member companies. This commitment is demonstrated through objective communication, supported as far as possible by scientific data and third-party certifications.

Governance

We area a group made up of people

At Pro Food – and on behalf of Pro Food – operate individuals who work within the member companies, mainly engaged in production, research and development, quality assurance, sustainability, marketing, and communication.

Our members

The companies associated with Pro Food number thirteen, employing around 4,500 people across 29 production sites in Italy and abroad. They generate an average annual turnover of €1.5 billion and represent over 70% of Italy’s production of rigid plastic packaging for food.

(Source: sector EPD)