Machines Italia and the Italian Trade Commission - ITA in collaboration with ACIMIT, the Association of Italian Textile Machinery Manufacturers, are organizing a series of webinars to showcase the best of Italian textile technologies and create networking opportunities between Italian machinery providers and Mexican textile manufacturing companies. The webinars will take place on 29 and 30 September 2021 and will be hosted on the ITA Smart 365 Fair web platform. For further information on the initiative, please contact messico [at] ice.it (subject: Machines%20Italia%20Newsletter)

Machines Italian and the Italian Trade Commission - ITA in collaboration with ASSOMAC, the National Association of Technology Manufacturers for Shoes, Leather Goods and Tannery, organized a series of three webinars. The webinars that are hosted on the ITA’s Smart 365 Fair web platform, aim to promote Italian excellence and know-how in the leather and tanning industry, to showcase the latest machinery and technology and to consolidate and create new commercial relations with local manufacturers. The webinar series was launched on June 9, 2021 and the next appointments are scheduled for July 22

MCE Expocomfort is one of the world’s largest conferences and trade shows for industrial and commercial HVAC, plumbing, refrigeration, renewable energy, cogeneration technology and much more. More than 160 thousand visitors, from 54 countries and 2,500 exhibitors usually attend the biennial trade event in Italy. While the 2020 edition of the show was cancelled and the 2021 one was held online due to health and safety concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic, MCE Expocomfort 2022 will once again be hosted in Milano, Italy from March 8 to 11, 2022. Machines Italia and the Italian Trade

BIAT - Innovation and High Technology Lab, funded under the Cohesion Action Plan of Italy’s Economic Development Ministry, is an initiative designed to enable enterprises and research systems of southern Italy in particular, the regions of Abruzzo, Molise, Sardinia, Basilicata, Campania, Calabria, Apulia and Sicily - to express their full potential for innovation and excellence. The event is organised by the Italian Trade Agency in collaboration with the partnering Regional Governments. BIAT aims to promote the placing on the market and/or the transfer of innovative products and services or

The ITALIAN GLASS SERIES is an online video project in 4 episodes created by Italian Trade Commission - ITA, GIMAV, the Italian Association of Manufacturers and Suppliers of Machinery, Equipment and Special products for Glass Processing in collaboration with National Glass Association (NGA). The series features leading Italian glass working companies and cutting-edge technologies, materials and processes which have been carefully selected for their suitability and changing impact for the US Market. Though intended for a wide audience, these videos showcase glass working machinery in motion

Throughout April 2021, the Italian Trade Commission - ITA has launched the Italia Demo Days, a series of free digital events open to all attendees of the World Ag Expo Digital Platform. Each Demo Day featured an educational session with Lessiter Media experts and U.S. market dedicated product video demonstrations specifically created by 41 Italian manufacturers. The educational session covered topics such as hay and forage equipment, specialty crop equipment, and vegetable cropping machinery. The Italia Demo Days jointly attracted over 2,000 viewers/attendees. If you missed any of Italia Demo

Machines Italia and the Italian Trade Commission - ITA Toronto participated in Collision 2021 virtual summit that took place from June 21-24, 2021 with a small contingent of Italian startups: Video Systems Srl, Deliverart Srl, Ermes Cyber Security Srl, Telecom & Security Srl, RIC3D Srl, Look Lateral Inc. Billed as the “Olympics of tech,” Collision is one of the fastest growing and largest tech-conferences in the world with a whopping 25,000 attendees participating from over 120 countries, engaging for four days with some of the greatest minds in technology and featuring A-list speakers

2,500 companies, over 160 thousand employees and more than Euro 100 billion in total revenues. These are some of the key figures of the Italian automotive industry which ranks 6th in Europe and 19th in the world for production, and 4th in Europe and 9th in the world for sales. 65% of motor vehicles manufactured in Italy are sold abroad. The automotive industry has played and continues to play a very important role in Italy’s economy. Italy’s automotive value chain encompasses the vehicle, system and component design, manufacture and marketing for both the OEM and aftermarket segments. The

On Wednesday, 24 February, a Press Conference for the South Korean public was held to present EMO MILANO 2021, the world exhibition of reference for the metalworking machine tool manufacturing industry, scheduled to take place at fieramilano in October 2021. The speakers of the meeting, which was web-streamed, were Mr Luigi Galdabini, General Commissioner of EMO MILANO 2021, Mr So-Ahn Kang, Director General at KOMMA, Korea Machine Tool Manufacturers’ Association, and Mr Vincenzo Calì, Italian Trade Commissioner - Italian Trade Agency Seoul - Korea. The conference involved more than 40

October 2020 data released by Statistics Canada and Trade Data Monitor showed a solid positive growth for Italy’s exports to Canada of technology from the various (15) Machines Italia capital good related sectors. With a +5,47% Italy marks the best performance among the top 20 partner countries. Italy’s market share also grew +26%. In stark contrast, Canada's total imports of industrial machinery and equipment fell 16% in the first 10 months of 2021. Packaging machinery and agricultural machinery are Italy’s top performing sectors with a +33,3% and +21,8%. Equipment for the graphic and