In the first 5 months of 2015, machinery imports, in the 15 "Machines Italia" sectors, grew by 26.2 percent, compared to the same period in 2014, with an aggregate value of €7,262 billion. The positive trend of Mexican machinery imports affects all sectors except metallurgy - foundry.
In the January-May 2015 period, imports from Italy grew by 3.2 percent. Positive growth in imports from Italy…
Stratasys Direct Manufacturing, a subsidiary of Stratasys, a leading 3D printing company, recently released a report on the impact of 3D printing on the manufacturing industry. The paper is based on a survey of , engineers and managers working in advanced companies ("advanced manufacturing"), 40 percent of whom are employed by companies with more than $50 million in revenue. For this reason,…
ICE- Agency Toronto in collaboration with Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development and Canada's Ministry of Industry (Industry Canada) has completed a survey of the Italian presence in Canada. Starting with a database of approximately 200 Italian branches and 150 Italian direct investments, a questionnaire was drafted and submitted over the past 3 months to collect…
Sarong (www.sarong.it) is a world leader in the design and manufacture of machines, technologies and materials for thermoformed filling, sealing and packaging. The company operates in the pharmaceutical, food, cosmetics, and home and environmental product sectors.
In North America, where Sarong has been present since 2012 with its own subsidiary located in Mississauga, north of Toronto (Canada…
Machines Italia Magazine is already in print, scheduled for release in
october 2015.
The magazine, now in its tenth edition, will be circulated this year through Society of Manufacturing Engineers - SME channels, both electronically and in print, to a list of about 60,000 managers, C-level, of North American companies in the trade association's databases. The magazine will also be distributed at…
"Reshoring" (i.e., relocation, the reverse process of offshoring) allows companies to take advantage of available incentives, use skilled labor and do innovation while protecting intellectual property. For some companies, being able to use gas at very low costs makes the United States far more "cost effective" than other countries where electricity and coal costs are considerably higher.…
Varese, VA, December 1, 2015
The survey to be presented was conducted by ICE- Agency's Toronto, Mexico City and Chicago offices through a series of direct interviews with nearly 700 "Top C-Level" managers with decision-making power, representing a diverse number of industries and managers directly responsible for the purchase of new machinery and technology.
The participants were chosen to…
Aerospace Industry Conference. Los Angeles, CA, October 26 - 28, 2015
The U.S. Department of Commerce, in cooperation with the Aerospace States Association (http://aerostates.org) is organizing, for the first time ever, the National Aerospace FDI Exposition, October 26-28, 2015 in Los Angeles, California.
The goal of the event is to bring together foreign investors with U.S. companies,…
Italy will host the 2015 edition of EMO (http://www.emo-milano.com/la-manifestazione/), the international machine tool fair, which alternates between Hannover and Milan and is promoted by CECIMO (www.cecimo.eu/site), the European association of metalworking machinery and technology industries.
EMO Milan 2015 will be held Oct. 5-10 at the prestigious Fiera Milano Rho exhibition center and will be…
The U.S. group announced that it plans to install new cookie production lines at its Salinas plant in the northern state of New Leon. The food giant plans to decommission the nine lines at the outdated Chicago plant with four innovative lines at the Mexican plant. The project requires an investment of $130 million (€107 billion). Mondelez has already invested $600 million (€536 million) in recent…