EIMA INTERNATIONAL is one of the world’s leading agricultural machinery and technology trade shows. Its 44th annual edition will take place from February 3 to 7 2021, and it will be the first international physical event scheduled to take place in Bologna, Italy after the COVID pandemic lockdown. FEDERUNACOMA, the Italian Federation Of Agricultural Machinery Manufacturers has been organizing the event in Bologna since its first edition in 1969. On October 23rd, 2020, the ITA-Italian Trade Agency in collaboration with FEDERUNACOMA held a video conference to launch the EIMA INTERNATIONAL project

Simac Tanning Tech 2020, the international annual trade show for the tanning and leather industry, wrapped up last February with a positive outcome: 324 exhibitors from 25 countries, thousands of visitors and plenty of new machinery and technology on display. The fair was also an opportunity to open a window on the future of manufacturing thanks to the Innovation Corner, a project dedicated to industry 4.0 solutions, developed by the Italian Trade Agency and ASSOMAC, the Italian National Association Of Manufacturers Of Footwear, Leathergoods And Tanning Technologies. ASSOMAC and the Italian

Leveraging on the positive feedback from the first Canadian edition of the world renowned high tech conference in 2019, Machines Italia and the Italian Trade Commission will be attending Collision 2021 that will take place from June 21 to 24 at the Enercare Centre in Toronto. Billed as the “Olympics of tech”, Collision is one of the fastest growing and largest tech-conferences in the world with a whopping 25 000 attendees from over 120 countries were joined for four days by some of the greatest minds in technology and A-list speakers including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, producer and artist

The rebound of the natural stone sector worldwide starts with MARMOMAC. The main international trade event for the lapidary industry was held in Verona, Italy September 30th - October 3rd, 2020 and its positive outcome was a statement of the resiliency of the sector in the face of the global pandemic. MARMOMAC RESTART 2020 was a three-day virtual event packed with meetings, networking sessions, seminars and showcase the latest in technology and products. VeronaFiere trade show venue, Associazione Italiana MARMOMACCHINE (CONFINDUSTRIA MARMOMACCHINE), the association representing the Italian

The collection of exhibitors’ applications is going on rapidly for EMO MILANO 2021, the world exhibition dedicated to metalworking machine tools, which will take place again in Italy after six years and after the success of the 2015 edition. Scheduled at fieramilano Rho from 4 to 9 October 2021 , EMO MILANO 2021 is long-awaited by the operators of the world manufacturing industry, which consider it as the event that will definitely mark the enterprises’ return to “normality”. Promoted by CECIMO, the European Association of Machine Tool Industries, the trade show is organised by the operational

The pandemic that broke out almost one year ago strongly affected the results of the Italian industry of the sector, which registered double-digit decreases for all main economic indicators in 2020. However, the trend of the year 2021 should be completely different and, even if the ground lost over the last twelve months cannot be fully recovered, the forecasts are really positive. This is in brief what was reported by Barbara Colombo , president of UCIMU-SISTEMI PER PRODURRE, the Italian machine tools, robots and automation systems manufacturers' association, during the usual end-of-year

How many types of glass are there? It can be highly technological, or fashionable, it can be made to protect, and to be used on tables every day ... Glass objects have found their way into myriad aspects of daily life. Thanks to its physical properties, in many cases glass is preferable to its equivalent in another material – because it is aesthetically more pleasing or because it offers results or effects that would otherwise be impossible to achieve. Yet, the end consumer who uses these objects rarely stops to consider that an entire supply chain lies behind the advantages that come with the

The figures for July-September 2020 clearly reflect what’s happening in this key segment of the Italian mechanical engineering industry. In general, the orders of machinery and tools for wood and furniture are recording a decreasing trend below expectations, which indicates a partial improvement of the economic situation compared to the previous quarters, strongly impacted by the lockdown. This trend indicates that the industry’s production system has identified the necessary countermeasures to carry on, within a context where the role of digital communication tools to support business is

Sesto San Giovanni, 1st October 2020. In 2019, the Italian machine tool manufacturing industry ranked fourth among manufacturing countries and fourth also among exporting countries, overtaken by China that stole its historical third place. On the contrary, its fifth position in the ranking of consumer countries remained unchanged, as a confirmation of the importance of the Italian market in the international scenario. After a 2019 that was certainly not positive, the year 2020 marked a collapse of investments in machine tools, in Italy and abroad, but a consumption recovery is expected already