In 2024, the United States government continues to offer incentives to encourage businesses to invest in new machinery. These incentives aim to boost manufacturing competitiveness, create jobs, and support domestic manufacturing and clean energy production. Here are some notable ones:Qualifying Advanced Energy Project Investment Tax Credit (the 48C Credit):This credit applies to facilities…
Manufacturing continues to rebound coming out of the pandemic and is poised for rapid growth thanks to technical innovations, improved supplier relationships and workforce advances. Italian machine builders are leading the charge to enable manufacturing partners throughout North America to ramp up output and meet increasingly stringent customer demands in terms of quality, timing, technology,…
The Italian Trade Agency, in collaboration with UCIMU-SISTEMI PER PRODURRE, will be hosting a cruise of the Chicago River and Lake Michigan during the IMTS 2024 show here in Chicago. When: Week of September 9-14, 2024 - Date to be determinedLive music and Catering will be provided.Dress code: Business CasualQuestions? Please contact the Italian Trade Agency Chicago at +1(312) 670-4360 or by…
Flame Spray North America, a thermal spray coatings manufacturer, today announced it is expanding its operations in Laurens County South Carolina. The company’s $2.5 million investment will create 40 new jobs.Part of Flame Spray S.p.A., Flame Spray North America offers a complete portfolio of thermal spray coating and heat treatment services. The company’s only North American facility, located at…
Quotient Sciences, a drug development and manufacturing accelerator, and MG2 Srl, other automated machinery, recently announced a strategic agreement. The partnership includes the purchase and installation of a FlexaLAB development facility in Garnet Valley, Pennsylvania. The new machine can reach a speed of up to 3,000 capsules per hour, and is designed for R&D with different dosing units to…
Headquartered in Brazil, tile manufacturer Portobello America Inc. recently took receipt of 630 tons of machinery from Imola, Italy-based SACMI Group for a new production plant in Baxter, Tennessee. From dough preparation to presses and ovens, SACMI—a global supplier for the ceramics, closures, preforms and containers, food and beverage, packaging, metals and advanced materials industries and…
According to the European Patent Office, applications for additive manufacturing (AM) solutions registered an average annual increase of about 30% in the last decade. The total number of AM requests was six times higher than in other high-technology sec- tors. With a turnover that reached a record- breaking total of 16 billion euro in 2022, AM has its most important markets in the U.S. and in…
In September, Zilmet USA broke ground on construction of a 150,000-sq-ft facility in Georgetown County, South Carolina. The planned $32.7 million investment at the site is expected to create about 50 new jobs. Since its formation in Rhode Island in 2012, Zilmet USA has imported all its products from the company’s primary manufacturing plant in Italy. But greater than expected demand, both in the…
New machines are becoming smarter as they combine mechanical, electronic and digital technologies. This hybrid world is transforming manufacturing and the way people work. Transformation is the theme of Machines Italia magazine Vol. XV: Transforming How We Work, One Machine At A Time available online at the link below: https://www.old.machinesitalia.org/magazineHelping to restore the global…