Italian wind turbine manufacturer Brevini Wind intends to start production on a new facility in Indiana in the third quarter of 2010. The original start date was for the first quarter in 2011, however interest generated at the American Wind Energy Association’s annual conference has lead to a decision to speed up the company’s timetable regarding the project. The Italian company selected the…
Pratt Industries (http://www.prattindustries.com) will begin production of eco-friendly paper / packaging with the opening of its state-of-the-art, 100% recycled paper machine in Shreveport, La., which will become a major producer of lightweight paper in North America.
The Shreveport mill, Pratt’s third paper machine in the United States, represents a $150 million investment in the future of the…
Deep in the beating heart of Italy’s manufacturing industry, there are companies facing not only economic challenges but a rapidly changing industrial landscape to which they must quickly adapt, as Jane Bordenave discovers.
Northern Italy is the country’s industrial heartland and home to a diverse range of manufacturers producing machines for virtually any and every industrial process. The…
The ninth edition of the Italian Packaging Technology Awards (IPTA) program will be launched at Pack Expo 2009 in Las Vegas.
The IPTA program awards student winners of a writing competition (on technical innovations in packaging) a trip to Italy to visit leading packaging machinery manufacturers.
The program endeavors to deepen the packaging education of students by providing them a unique…
A trio of American trade press editors left for Milan, Italy, on the weekend of July 4 to begin a five-day tour of 13 machinery manufacturers across northern Italy. The trip was sponsored by the Italian Trade Commission (www.ice.it), to highlight the unique capabilities of the country’s machine industry. Italy has been the third-leading exporter of machines to the United States—following Germany…
MACHINES ITALIA-UCIMU PROMOTE ITALIAN TECHNOLOGY IN CANADA
Machines Italia Turning Innovation into Productivity
They got here by taking very different approaches to working out the fundamentals of heat, mass and momentum transfer principles. Rigatoni. Lasagna. Ziti. Bucatini. Rotelle. At 28 kg per person per year, Italians love their pasta, and continue to reign as today's big spenders. But the rest of the world is aggressively playing catch-up. World production nearly doubled between 1998 and 2006, from 6…
For Immediate Release: CHICAGO (USA) - Italian wind turbine manufacturer Brevini Wind intends to start production on a new facility in Indiana in the third quarter of 2010. The original start date was for the first quarter in 2011, however interest generated at the American Wind Energy Association’s annual conference has lead to a decision to speed up the company’s timetable regarding the project…