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Innovative and plastic-free materials: here’s how to make packaging more sustainable

The requirements imposed by the increasingly stringent packaging regulations have given impetus to the research and development of solutions that…

Packaging

Avant-Garde awards design, material innovation and sustainability in packaging

Avant-Garde is the Packaging Première contest that selects and rewards the most innovative and sustainable packaging projects in three different…

Packaging

Packaging Première 2024: trends in premium packaging on display in Milan

The 2024 edition of Packaging Première & PCD, the reference fair for the world of luxury packaging in the cosmetics,…

Events and news

What trends are shaping materials landscape in 2024

Materially invites you to a free online webinar that will focus on the most important trends in the materials scene…

Events and news

Materially NOW

Materially NOW – at Superstudio Più from 15th to 21st April – brought together twenty producers and researchers of materials…

Interiors&Retail

Exploring Traditional and Innovative Sustainable Materials in the Furniture Industry

The entire Italian manufacturing industry has been exploring ways to reduce emissions for a long time, and the wood-furniture sector…

Architecture

Ethical layouts: circularity and sustainability at Fuorisalone 2024

The recently concluded Fuorisalone, whose theme was “Matter Nature,” indeed provided an opportunity to investigate the relationship between the two…

Events and news

NOTHING GOES TO WASTE

Next to Materially NOW, Materially will showcase a selection of bio-based materials from the Material ConneXion Material Library and moderates…

Architecture

Glass and iridescent transparency

Glass, a material widely used in architecture, is increasingly re-proposed in new formats capable of generating iridescent effects thanks to…

Architecture

Polished steel for reflective surfaces

In architecture, the shimmering effect refers to a visual phenomenon that occurs when light interacts with building materials or surfaces,…

Architecture

Perforated sheet metal: filtered light generating iridescence

Three-dimensional surfaces and textures are used in architecture and interior design to add depth and movement, increasing the visual interest…

M Selection

ST Powder Coatings

ST Powder Coatings operates in the field of chemical industry, covering a role of primary importance at an international level…

Fashion

AI and digital technologies for fashion

Fashion and artificial intelligence are increasingly converging, bringing significant innovation and change to the industry.

Fashion

Sustainable dyes

Given its great economic impact, the global textile and fashion industry is also one of the main polluters. The sector…

Textile

Alternatives to leather: what developments?

Leathers are natural and long-lasting materials long used in the fashion, furniture and automotive sectors.

Design

When looking is being

A soft, warm, and bendable Bohemian crystal. A teddy bear in cold, hard and fragile leather. A marble table as…

Bio-based

3 Material Innovation Directions For 2024

Many material innovations have emerged in 2023, in continuity or acceleration compared to previous trends.

Interiors&Retail

Circularity in resilient floorings

Domotex 2024 did not trivialize the subtitle of the event – Floored by Nature. On the contrary, it dealt with…

Interiors&Retail

Magic carpets between art, nature and territory

The carpet is one of the oldest furnishing objects: the oldest carpet discovered, known as the “Pazyryk carpet”, dates as…

Interiors&Retail

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