Who we are
The PPWR (Regulation EU 2025/40) introduces a new European framework for packaging, directly applicable in every Member State, with the first obligations for companies taking effect on 12 August 2026. Evalda was created for this moment: a digital platform that verifies packaging compliance, identifies the regulatory obligations that apply, and optimises sustainability, costs and environmental contributions — kept continuously up to date as the legislation evolves, and always backed by human experts.
Behind the platform stands a committed founding team: four partners who have invested their own capital, their technology and their working lives in Evalda, supported by a consolidated network of 38 consultants who work on our projects internationally — not occasional collaborators, but people who know our software and the world of artificial intelligence in depth.
How Evalda was born
Evalda was founded as a deliberate, long-term venture. The founding partners brought together two assets that rarely sit in the same company: a proven AI software platform, developed and hardened over years in other demanding sectors, and more than three decades of hands-on packaging, reverse-logistics and retail experience across Europe. Rather than starting from zero, Evalda was built on that foundation — and the partners backed it with their own dedicated investment to serve the fast-growing environmental and regulatory needs of the packaging market.
How we work
Enter a product SKU and a few preliminary details, and the platform guides you step by step: which obligations apply, which forms to use, with information retrieved automatically from European and national legislation and public databases. It doesn’t stop at a single regulation — it connects the whole relevant legal framework. If a packaging choice under the PPWR could amount to greenwashing, Evalda flags it and warns about the sanction risk before it becomes a problem.
We work as a true digital twin of the company: we enter your processes, understand your needs, and identify solutions that are compliant with European rules — and that also generate savings and competitiveness. Compliance is already an obligation; our job is to make it the simplest and most efficient part of your packaging decisions.
Where we’re going
Evalda stays focused on packaging, with an ever broader offer: beyond the PPWR we already cover CONAI and EPR schemes, traceability and the wider regulatory landscape around packaging. We keep enriching the available subscriptions with new content and building tailor-made, digital-twin-based solutions for the more articulated needs of larger companies. Packaging compliance is not a side project for us — it is the company. That focus, and the partners’ direct stake in it, is what lets our customers build multi-year compliance programmes on Evalda with confidence.
The partners
Evalda is led day to day by its four founding partners — each with decades of experience in their field, each personally invested in the company, and together covering the full arc of the problem: packaging operations, European retail, corporate finance and AI engineering.
Dario Melpignano
Partner · LinkedIn
Dario has spent the last twenty years turning AI into products companies actually use — long before it was fashionable. Co-founder and long-time President of Neosperience S.p.A., listed on Euronext Growth Milan, he has built platforms for banking, insurance and healthcare; Evalda is built on that experience. It is the reason every answer the platform gives is accurate and can show you the article it came from.
Laura Sabbadini
Partner · LinkedIn
Laura has spent thirty years where packaging actually happens — warehouses, supermarkets and reverse-logistics loops across Europe. She opened Polymer Logistics’ Italian business and took it from zero to market leadership, ran IFCO Systems Italy, and co-founded the Eurepack consortium. When she explains the PPWR to a packaging team, it is with the authority of someone who has moved the crates herself.
Lorenzo Scaravelli
Partner · LinkedIn
Lorenzo has spent almost forty years financing and governing companies — from heading M&A, private equity and IPOs in the IMI group to running Winter Consulting and LDV Partners and sitting on the board of Neosperience S.p.A. He was the first to see that a proven AI platform and deep packaging expertise belonged in one company, and he backed that conviction with his own capital. At Evalda he keeps the ambition funded and the governance solid.
Jurgen van Herp
Partner · LinkedIn
Jurgen has spent twenty-five years getting returnable packaging onto European retail shelves — running Polymer Logistics in Central Europe, leading sales at Cabka and EcoRetail, and building his own retail-solutions firm, Elips Solutions, in the Netherlands. He knows what a buyer, a category manager and a logistics director each need to hear. At Evalda he brings the PPWR to Northern Europe in the language of the shop floor.