At interpack 2026, UCIMA — the Italian Packaging Machinery Manufacturers‘ Association — is in Düsseldorf with more than 400 member companies, representing an industry with a turnover of around €10.4 billion, an export rate of 80%, and a share of roughly 22.5% of the global packaging machinery market. In conversation with packaging journal, UCIMA President Riccardo Cavanna explains the formula behind decades of „Made in Italy“ success: flexible, tailor-made and engineering-driven manufacturing, deep specialisation, and a business model in which large groups integrate small and medium-sized specialists to compete globally.