Verona-Bologna, 9 January 2020. Veronafiere and BolognaFiere have established a 50-50 joint venture in view of Metef, the international expo on aluminium, metal foundry and technologies for innovative materials. The show was first organized in Italy in 1997 by Metef as the first expo worldwide dedicated to aluminium. It later became a joint venture with Verona’s exhibition centre and in 2017 this latter purchased the entire equity. Since its first edition in Verona in 2017 Metef has attracted people on an international scale, hosting 400 exhibitors and over 11,000 sector operators, 40% of

Even in the last quarter 2019, the collection of machine tool orders highlighted a negative sign. In particular, in the fourth quarter 2019, the UCIMU index of machine tool orders registered a 16% downturn compared with the same period of the previous year. The absolute value of the index was 105.5 (base 100 in 2015). The overall outcome was affected both by the negative performance of the domestic market and by the weakness of foreign demand. In particular, the collection of orders in the domestic market showed a 21.2% fall compared with the fourth quarter of 2018. The absolute value of the

Already 466 companies have sent their applications to exhibit at 32.BI-MU, the international exhibition of reference in Italy for the machine tool sector, held at fieramilano Rho from Wednesday 14 to Saturday 17 October 2020. It will document how the matching between manufacturing world and digital technologies is accompanying the development of the industry, also according to the new principles of circular economy. To date, the number of exhibiting companies has increased by 3.5% compared with the number achieved in December 2017 for the previous edition of BI-MU. The event will be at

Undisputed leader in the scenario of the exhibitions regarding the sector, EMO represents the articulated world of metalworking in the best way, combining vision and innovation, as proven by the data of the previous Italian edition (EMO MILANO 2015), hosting 1,600 exhibiting companies, on an exhibit area of 120,000 sq. m. and registering over 155,000 visits of operators coming from 120 countries. Metal forming and metal cutting machine tools, production systems, enabling technologies, solutions for interconnected and digital factories and additive manufacturing will be among the products and

The USA Market for Advanced Manufacturing (AM) and Robotics Manufacturing in the U.S. has often been assumed to be in long-term decline, with the competitive advantage moving to low-cost countries such as Mexico and China. However, with advanced technologies likely to automate as much as 60% of factory tasks, in the future low-cost countries may no longer enjoy a competitive advantage, and the USA could well regain lost ground. Although many basic and low value-added products have moved out of the USA, the country still has an incredibly thriving manufacturing sector with more than $4 trillion

November 2019 – The Italian Trade Agency (ITA) is pleased to announce the North American winners of its annual technology awards (see Attachment A in the PDF for a full list). Essays by engineering students based in several renowned Universities in Canada, Mexico and the United States were selected by panels of Italian experts for their outstanding quality and innovativeness. Five scholars and eighteen students receiving the award have been honored with a one-week educational trip to Northern Italy commencing November 10th, 2019. The initiative’s fundamental mission is to enrich the

Columbia Md (Usa) - September 30 2019 - Eurotech Inc announces a new business unit named Dynatem to develop a new generation of ‘high performance mission computer’, suitable also for aerospace missions. Dynatem will respond to new challenges in the edge supercomputing for complex environments, such as: aerospace sector and not only it. The business unit will specialize in design and construction of high-performance, robust and energy-efficient computing systems: the 'Mission computers’, to be applied in the aerospace and defense sectors. The new business unit arises from the refocusing of the

A highlight of Vitrum 2019 is the thought-provoking, fact-filled calendar of in-depth Seminars on crucial topics of general and specific interest to glass industry professionals. Four informative, galvanizing events featuring high-profile speakers will offer trade professionals a valuable opportunity to share and compare and get up-to-date on the most cutting-edge technology and also preview possible future scenarios implementing that technology, the various technical standards of reference and the options for safeguarding proprietary company data. “This year, we envisioned an even more

From 23 to 25 September, the Italian Automatic Packaging Machinery Manufacturers’ Association will be taking centre stage at Pack Expo, the most important event for the industry in North America. Following its success in Chicago in 2018, Ucima is preparing to return to the USA for Pack Expo (23-25 September), one of the most important international exhibitions devoted to processing and packaging. This year’s venue is the Las Vegas Convention Center, the location that hosts the show in odd-numbered years. The seventh stop in the association’s 2019 international promotional programme, the show