The market for construction and industrial machinery, is a cyclical business, which is shown below in the chart portraying a composite of earthmoving equipment sales in North America. Our composite covers 14 different products including tracked dozers, excavators, motor graders, skid steel loaders, and wheel loaders to name a few of the products and we are showing a 10-year period with five years…
“We are very excited about establishing our North American production facility in South Carolina. Laurens County provided us with an excellent production facility and has the skilled workforce to suit our needs. Flame Spray would like to thank everyone at the South Carolina Department of Commerce and the Laurens County Development Corporation for all their hard work and assistance in helping us…
The company’s American subsidiary, Turbocoating Corp. USA, opened in North Carolina and plans to create 53 jobs and invest $15 million in the next three years. The company will occupy 60,000 square feet at Cataway Industrial Commons in the town of Hickory.
City and county leaders gathered Friday next door at the North Carolina Center for Engineering Technologies for the announcement.…
“Our pasta company is thrilled to be launching U.S. operations in Illinois starting later this year,” said Gian Luca Ranan CEO of Pastificio Rana. “We feel Illinois and the Chicago region provide us a great location to recruit employees, and to market our products and deliver them to our customers across the United States.”
Pastificio Rana was started in 1962 when Giovanni Rana began making…
In 2010 the production of Italian construction equipment, according to Unacea's provisional assessment, totally gained about 5 percentage points for a total amount of nearly 2 billion euros, 53% of which destined to the production of earthmoving machines and 47% to other construction machines. The Italian production of earthmoving machines, after being halved in 2009, regained about 16 percentage…
By Bill Bregar | PLASTICS NEWS STAFF
MILAN, ITALY (May 6, 11:20 a.m. ET) -- Milan-based injection press maker Negri Bossi SpA has acquired Italian robot-maker Sytrama srl to bring automation in-house.
Sytrama is based in Vignate, Italy, just a few miles away from Negri Bossi. The injection press manufacturer said Sytrama will remain at the Vignate operation.
Sytrama makes beam robots, side-…
Milan, May 5th 2011 - The Italian Trade Commission together with FEDERMACCHINE via its Machines Italia project invited Italian manufacturers to an executive presentation on the project's activities in North America conducted on their behalf.
According to statistics, production increased by 23 percent, a good result, though certainly not enough to go back to pre-crisis levels. In this respect, we can add that, if the industry index in 2000 was equal to 100, today we are at 65, and at the end of 2011 we might climb up to 75. The crisis was heavy and is not behind us, yet; recovery has started, we can feel it, but it is highly unlikely…
April 20th, 2011
Written by Pat Reynolds, Editor-in-Chief
Now in its third year, AIMCAL’s Sustainability Competition recognizes equipment, materials, or processes that reduce environmental impact, minimize energy usage or waste, and’or increase recycling. Taghleef Industries SpA, makes the Nativia flower sleeve film from a renewable resource, corn, at its San Giorgio Di Nogaro, Italy, facility…
For the fourth consecutive year, Machines Italia and the Italian Trade Commission will be joining, as Gold Leve Sponsors, the Canadian Engineering Competion.
This year’s edition of the prestigious event was hosted by McGill University in Montreal from March 10th to 13th.
For the past quarter of a century, the aims of the Canadian Engineering Competition has been to celebrate and encourage the…