Thursday, January 9, 2025

3 Questions to Marco Nigrelli, General Manager at ICMA

3 Questions to Marco Nigrelli, General Manager at ICMA
Introduce your company in a few words

ICMA Sartorial Paper has been transforming and finishing paper since 1933. Founded by Matilde Carcano, one of Italy’s first female entrepreneurs, in May 2020, it became the first European company in the paper industry to obtain B-Corp status.
In November 2021, it changed its articles of association, becoming a benefit corporation, confirming its desire to work not only for profit but also to pursue a positive impact on people and the environment.
Underlying these choices are ethics, culture, workplace dignity, and a focus on product quality, values that have driven the four generations of women who have led the company until now.
What will be your 2022 must-have innovation on your stand?
Icma is launching its SILVER and GOLD collections.
The most important innovation concerns the materials used. The two collections have embraced the singular features of Icma’s new eco-friendly products by introducing a new GOLD 1425 and SILVER 1431, both plain and embossed, produced on a 100% recycled base, FSC® Recycled Credit certified, without chlorine or optical bleachings. The natural brown papers are not deinked. The production process is integrated: scraps are input directly into the pulper without the intermediate step of refining them into recycled cellulose pulp, saving water and energy and reducing CO2 emissions.
The paper is recyclable.
How will this solution meet the needs of brands?

The papers SILVER 1431 and GOLD 1425 respond to the sustainability guarantee that has now become a fundamental driver for brands when choosing packaging.
Icma aspires to sustainability as a requirement for each of its products, creating unique, customizable, and at the same time eco-friendly papers for the luxury market, enabling beauty to go hand-in-hand with increasing attention to the environment.
The SILVER and GOLD collections are a new spin on the Mineral collection, which brings to life separate sample sets for the two colors that have long been prominent in the fashion world and are more relevant today than ever.