Machines Italia

Skiers at the City of Toronto's Earl Bales Ski and Snowboard Centre will enjoy more time hitting the slopes, thanks to A new Italian made, high speed, 4-seat chairlift  which has been operating since the beginning of the 2012/2013  this ski and snowboard season.  The $2.3 million lift provided by Leitner Poma will drammatically improve the customer skiing and snowboardking experience at the Centre.

Canadians likely think of Italy more as a romantic vacation destination and are more aware of its cultural characteristics than its many industrial qualities.

Indeed, the country is beautiful and the food so magnificent, so deliziouso, yet there’s much more to appreciate than its fascinating history, ancient and elegant architecture, some of the world’s most beautiful artistic treasures and many fabulous wines.

Much of the recognition Italy is getting these days has more to do with its precarious economic condition and its contribution to the potential unravelling of the euro zone, thanks to a debt that is 120% of its…

The thing is, water bottles and other plastic beverage containers are recyclable and according to the Canadian Bottled Water Association. 70% of them (2010 data) are recycled and account for 0.02% of the total waste…

There are millions of hectares of mountain pine beetle-infected wood in Canada. Most trees will rot where they fall, as there isn't enough demand for all the material. Yet there is a technology that could put this wood to use: cross laminated timber, or CLT. In Italy companies are manufacturing and allocating a lot of the stuff, for example using it to rebuild 4,000 houses since 2009, when a 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck the country's L'Aquila province.

The Timber Machinery Alliance is a consortium of equipment manufacturers, making the various tools needed to turn little pieces of wood into massive…