Our vision

Arcadia S.p.A. is an Italian company, working since 1999 to develop packaging guaranteed to preserve the special characteristics of the food on your table.

We want to ensure that consumers are able to eat exactly what the producers with their passion have created.

It’s important that everyone should have access to the latest food packaging products, which conserve resources and reduce waste, while keeping food longer and, above all, BETTER.

Ovtene is a friend of the environment…

Find out why

Ecology

Currently a third of the food produced in the world is wasted, for various reasons. Ovtene can help reduce this statistic by naturally extending the life of your food products.

1974 

900 calories a day
per person

TODAY

1.400 calories a day
per person

that’s 150.000.000.000 calories being wasted each year

2 billion people could be fed for a year with the amount the USA alone throws away each year

1974

900 calories a day
per person

TODAY

1.400 calories a day
per person

that’s 150.000.000.000 calories being wasted each year

2 billion people could be fed for a year with the amount the USA alone throws away each year

Food waste in the USA accounts for…

1/4 of all freshwater consumption

the consumption of 300 million barrels of oil

Ovtene is a friend of the environment
thanks to how it is manufactured

%

Polyethylene

Ovtene packaging

%

Polyethylene

Traditional packaging

Ovtene is made of 60% inert minerals, suitable for contact with food, deriving from renewable sources. The remaining 40% polyethylene ensures it can be recycled as “plastic”.

Studies conducted by the EPA highlight the pros and cons of common packaging.

Production of both paper and plastic bags requires energy and in both processes waste is generated. While paper is made from timber, which is a renewable resource, plastic is made from natural gas and crude oil that are non-renewable resources. But paper bags generate 50 times more water pollutants and 70 percent more air pollutants during production than plastic bags.. 

Plastic bags use 40 percent less energy during production and generate 80 percent less solid waste compared to paper bags.

“An innovative, effective and eco-friendly product – absolutely perfect for our philosophy”

D. Fiori, Lugi Guffanti 1876

“I’m very pleased with the choice of Ovtene for my business – an interesting product that works very well”

M. Arosio, Macelleria Arosio, butcher and president of Federcarni (Italian meat producers’ association)

“I have packed both sliced and whole pieces of our salame and salumi cotti and refrigerated them for various periods of time and found the paper to protect the product in a way that I have never seen before, preserving moisture while allowing the product to breathe.”

Paul Bertolli, Founder/CEO, Fra’ Mani Handcrafted Foods

“Great results!!! We opened the boxes today after 28 days. The difference between the limes using Ovtene, is nothing short of amazing!”

Dean Mixon, President, Mixon Fruit Farms