The Italian Trade Commission - ITA and GIMAV, the Association of Italian manufacturers and suppliers of machinery, equipment and special products for glass processing, organized a delegation of foreign buyers to VITRUM 2021 that was held in Milano, Italy, from October 5 to 8, 2021. 70 delegates, from over 20 countries participated in the event with all the travel expenses covered by ITA and GIMAV. Amongst the North American delegates, invited by Machines Italia: Future Temp Glass Ltd, North Temp Glass Ltd, Agnora, Laurier Architectural, Wholesale Bevel & Edge Ltd, Glassfab Canada, Red Seal

TECHTEXTIL North America, which this year will take place in Atlanta, GA, May 17-19, 2022, is a unique conference and trade show for the technical textile industry: from research and development, to raw materials, nonwovens, process and converting technology, recycling equipment. These are all sectors where Italy excels. To further promote Italy’s prowess, the Houston office of the Italian Trade Commission - ITA is organizing a Pavilion with leading textile technology companies. For further information on the initiative, please contact houston [at] ice.it (subject: Machines%20Italia%20E

Coverings is the leading trade show in North America for natural stone, marble and ceramic materials and technology. The event was held in Orlando, Florida, July 7-9, 2021, and featured 500 exhibitors, in an exhibition area of approximately 25,000 square meters with over 10,000 visitors. Though significantly lower compared with previous editions, Covierings 2021 was nevertheless a landmark industry event. The Italian Trade Commission - ITA together with Confindustria Marmomacchine, (the Italian association representing producers and processors of marbles, granites and natural stones in general

Fedrigoni, one of the world's leading manufacturers of special papers for packaging, publishing, graphics, and labeling, based in Verona, Italy, has expanded considerably in Mexico in the last 9 months. The strategy began to take shape in the Latin American country at the beginning of December 2020 when the company took over Industrial Papelera Venus, a company that develops, produces, and distributes self-adhesive materials, a leader on the local market. The acquisition was completed to increase production capacity, expand the offer, create favorable supply synergies, strengthen the presence

The organization of LAMIERA 2022 is in full swing. The international exhibition dedicated to the industry of sheet-metal forming machines tools and innovative technologies related to the sector will take place at fieramilano Rho from 25 to 28 May . The 21st edition of the trade fair , promoted by UCIMU-SISTEMI PER PRODURRE, the Italian machine tools, robots and automation systems manufacturers' association, and organized by CEU-CENTRO ESPOSIZIONI UCIMU, aspires to repeat the success of the two previous editions held in the same venue , which saw the biennial event constantly grow, in terms of

The year 2021 was extremely positive for the Italian industry of machine tools, robotics and automation, which reported double-digit increases for all key economic indicators. This trend should continue even in 2022, the year when all the ground lost in 2020 should be recovered. This is in short what was illustrated by Barbara Colombo, president of UCIMU-SISTEMI PER PRODURRE, the Italian machine tools, robots and automation systems manufacturers' association, during the traditional end-of-year press conference. As highlighted by the preliminary year’s data processed by the Studies Dept. &

The index of orders intake for Italian textile machinery, as processed by ACIMIT, the Association of Italian textile machinery manufacturers, for the period ranging from April-June 2021, was up 214% compared to the same 2020 period. The value of the index was attested at 150.7 points (basis: 2015 = 100), a result that was no doubt influenced by the comparison with a quarter, from April-June 2020, in which orders were obviously at a minimum, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. An analysis of the index of orders intake for the first six months of 2021 confirms a clearly positive business dynamic for

Sesto San Giovanni, 12 July 2021. In 2020, the Italian manufacturing industry of machine tools, robots and automation systems reported a considerable fall of all main economic indicators. Nonetheless, it was able to maintain the positions gained in the international rankings of the sector, where it confirmed its fourth place among manufacturing countries and among exporting countries and its fifth place in the ranking of consumer countries, as a testimony to the importance of the Italian market in the international scenario. The year 2021 is showing a completely different trend, confirming the

The Italian international leader in the design and manufacture of customized extrusion lines for processing of plastic materials, Bausano, announced the introduction of its next generation lines of twin-screw plastic extruders in the US and Canadian markets. With world-renowned “made in Italy” quality and unrivaled technological innovation, Bausano’s two renewed product lines - MD Plus and MD Nextmover - are best suited for several types of extrusion, pipes, granules, wood plastic composites (WPC), profiles and materials used in the medical industry. Bausano twin-screw extruder lines are

BIAT - Innovation and High Technology Lab, funded under the Cohesion Action Plan of Italy’s Economic Development Ministry, is an initiative designed to enable enterprises and research systems of southern Italy in particular, the regions of Abruzzo, Molise, Sardinia, Basilicata, Campania, Calabria, Apulia and Sicily - to express their full potential for innovation and excellence. The event is organised by the Italian Trade Agency in collaboration with the partnering Regional Governments. BIAT aims to promote the placing on the market and/or the transfer of innovative products and services or