On the evening of Tuesday 6th November at the World Trade Center in Dubai was held Gala Dinner of the Gulfood Manufacturing Industry Excellence Awards 2018. A technical jury of experts included in the Management of the most eminent food companies in the Gulf area has tested hundreds of innovative proposals of Food Technology companies among the 1600 exhibitors of Gulfood Manufacturing 2018. Alcos Food Plants received the honor of the nomination for the Top Packaging Innovation category with the preview in Dubai of the new RENAPACK as the new automatic aseptic filling machine specific generation for bag-in-box solutions for food service and catering. A great recognition of the work and the dedication of the whole Alcos Team, which can not but be proud of the whole company, starting from our Carlo and Domenico Dondi, majority shareholders, and the belief that a second generation has well deserved the passage of witnessed by the great pioneer of aseptic technology that was Renato Ponzi, to whom a dutiful and moved thought in the second anniversary of death.