The company, a Milan-based innovation think-tank that specializes in the production of components for ultra-high vacuum and gas purification applications for industrial customers invests at least 10% of its revenues in research and innovation annually, a practice it says saved the company.
In 2009, SAES Getters recorded its worst sales in the 70 year history of the company, $164 million. It…
Though not the flashiest Italian car manufacturer, automotive firm Fiat has long been a staple of the country's industrial sector, providing vehicles to a wider mass market than its local brethren: —the Ferraris, Maseratis and Lamborghinis that cater only to the elite.
As such, the firm's research and development center, with a main base in Orbassano, Turin, is constantly thinking up ways to…
Nothing but pasta could possibly be more representative of Italian sumptuousness than Ferrari, the sexy luxury race car brand that made its debut in 1947 with the 125S, produced in Maranello, Italy, and bearing the Ferrari trademark. Maranello, near the city of Modena, has been Ferrari’s home from the firm’s inception, and the main museum dedicated to the firm’s famous fast cars, as well as…
Plastic may not be the most beloved of materials to the more environmentally minded, but Plast 2012, a Milan, Italy-based show held last week, aimed to mold a different opinion of the material in people's minds.
"Plastic is a huge and innovating world," said Mario Maggiani, director at Assocomaplast, the association of Italian plastics and rubber machinery producers. Those innovations include…
With austerity abounding in Europe, two large trade fair companies have decided to combine their resources by partnering to create a new technical event to debut in May of 2014 that will showcase hydraulics, pneumatics and mechanical power transmissions and drive technology. An AssoFluid Association spokesman at the announcement adds,"that this sector needs an international platform and this…
I just arrived home after home after a ten-day visit to both manufacturing companies and manufacturing trade shows across Italy. Arranged by Machines Italia, as part of the Italian Trade Commission, I saw a variety of innovative products and production floors which I will write about over the next coming weeks. A few things struck me as belonging particularly to manufacturing in Italy. The…
Matt Powell, Assistant Editor at Plant Magazine is amongst a group of nine Canadian and US journalists, from various business and Industrial publications, who are participating to a delegation in Italy to visit the The trade shows trifecta; FLUIDTRANS PLAST 2012 XYLEXPO, in Milano as well as LAMIERA Bologna. The delegation hosted by…
Machines Italia North America launched its online advertising campaign on several horizontal, industrial and general business websites and e-bullettins across Canada and the US.
Amongst the targeted publications in the US:
Designnews.com
CNNMoney.com
Businessweek.com/innovation
Techbriefs.com
While in Canada the chosen e-outlets were:
Canadian Plant
Canadian…
Brevini is a worldwide specialist in planetary technology. After 50 years of experience we developed a product range of gearboxes which goes from very small applications to >2,5 million N/m.
We needed a new manufacturing location for the upper range (above 1 million N/M) where we could deploy the best possible technology. We focused on the wind market because it is one of the biggest for…
As 2012 gets underway, manufacturers in a diverse number of sectors hope that improvements witnessed in 2011 will continue. One of the sectors that had shown signs of growth and optimism for that matter, over the first three quarters of 2011 was fluid power. Based on statistical information collected by the US Department of Commerce, the sector over the last several years, has witnessed a renewed…