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In Italy, industrial packagings took on a well defined role
in the nation’s manufacturing sector, following the end of the Second
World War: more specifically, between the late forties and early fifties.
In fact, the accentuated postwar industrialization process and the constitution
of closely related business organizations immediately enabled the first
important exporting of machinery and industrial installations.
One of the containers which from the thirties to the early fifties gave
rise to a well identified sector – one which is still identified
as such today – that of the baler, or packer, was the "jute
canvas bale", the container from which the figure of the baler
can be traced (a term deriving from the verb to bale, or pack into bales,
in the world of commercial merchants).
The main types of packings produced were industrial packagings and pallets made of wood, with the various manufacturing sectors accounting for most of the end users.
The effectiveness of instruments and techniques related to packaging contributed to determining the effectiveness of production, conservation, transport and marketing in sectors using this sort of packaging product, converging indirectly to creating value, and becoming a critical factor of success for some businesses.
The distinctive characteristic of containers is related to the aptitude for this type of packing to contain industrial products, specifically machinery and installations in general, and not the criteria or procedures undertaken for its realization.
The professional figure possessing this state-of-the-art knowledge is that of the packager.
Wooden and carton packagings assimilable to the type of product defined by UNI norms as "industrial packagings", since they are used satisfy the needs and requisites foreseen in the "Packing system", are containers (cases or crates) comprising a wooden frame and heavy carton containers. These packagings are specially designed on the basis of predefined design criteria, realized for specific needs, in single units or limited series, built to contain materials and manufactured goods of various sizes, and associated, if need be, to "packagings acting as operative supports to transport".
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