Bruschi USA Inc., an affiliate of the Italian zinc die casting company Bruschi S.p.a., purchased two parcels at the corner of North Granville Woods Road and West Bradley Road, in Milwaukee, Winsconsin, from JAS Investments Inc. for $1.1 million. The properties at 8050 N. Granville Woods Road and 6840 W. Bradley Road have a combined assessed value of $1,174,000, according to city records. According to the company’s web site, Bruschi’s new US plant should begin production in March. Founded in 1948, Bruschi S.p.A. is based in Milano, Italy. The company produces 60 million components and processes

ICA, a leading, Italian-based supplier of coating solutions for the wood and glass industry, continues its global expansion by establishing a North American subsidiary in Ontario through the take over of its local distributor. ICA North America oversees the sales and distribution network in Canada, USA and Mexico until the US office is operative. For ICA, this is the 6th FDI abroad office in the past 10 years in its key markets: Spain, Germany, China, India, Poland and Canada. ICA has also a manufacturing facility in India, in Gujarat state, in partnership with a Pidilite. ICA group employs

Established in 1981 and headquartered in Fornovo Taro, Parma in the heart of Italy’s so called Food Valley, Bardiani Valvole Spa is a global leader in specialty valves for various applications and industries such as food processing, dairy, beverages, pharma + biotech, chemicals, tobacco and textiles. 80% of its production is exported abroad through a network of sales and distribution outlets in various countries. Despite its worldwide success, Bardiani remains family owned, nimble and agile with a workforce of slightly over 100 specialized professionals. Bardiani’s founder (emilio Bardiani)

On May 2, 2019, Italy and the world honour the day, 500 years ago, when Leonardo da Vinci died. A host of celebrations have been planned in various countries to commemorate the anniversary. Next October, the Uffizi Galleries of Florence will inaugurate the exhibition "The Leicester Codex of Leonardo da Vinci: Water as Microscope of Nature." The 72-page Codex, which discusses the movement of water, fossils, and moonlight (among other topics) is being loaned by Bill Gates, who purchased it in 1990 for over $30 million. At the Biblioteca Reale in Turin the famous self-portrait of Leonardo has

With over 1,500 exhibitors, tens of thousands of visitors from 63 countries and 180 thousand square meter of floor space the World AG EXPO, in Tulare, California is the largest, annual agricultural trade show in the US. Machines Italia, the Italian Trade Commission - ITA’s Houston office and FEDERUNACOMA, the Italian Agricultural Machinery Manufacturers Federation, brought 11 top Italian companies to the 2019 edition of the event which took place from February 12 to 14. The Italians exhibited in an Italian pavilion (600 sq. mt, North Exhibits - Stand T46-T48): Ama Group, Annovi Reverberi

The Automate 2019 Show and Conference, North America’s largest showcase devoted to automation industry trends, leading-edge technology and business innovation, took place April 8-11, 2019 at McCormick Place in Chicago. The biennial event is the biggest yet with more than 500 exhibitors who shared the latest technologies with 20,000+ attendees hoping to implement automation to better compete in the global market. According to the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) World Robotics Report 2018, which compiles A3’s Robotic Industries Association (RIA) collected statistics, robot sales in

The Italian Trade Agency via its Chicago Office, along with the US Foreign Commercial Service in Italy and with the support of the Italian Embassy in Washington DC, organized the 2019 Italian delegation to the SelectUSA Summit held in Washington, DC, June 10-12, 2019. The Italian delegation this year was the third largest from the European Union and seventh largest overall in terms of size from all countries which sent delegates to the Summit. As part of the delegation’s activities, the Italian Ambassador to the US, On. Armando Varricchio hosted a reception on June 9th at his residence in

From May 5 to 10, 2019 a group of 50 stone industry professionals from various countries were invited to Italy for MARMO+MAC 2019, a familiarization road trip focused on stone/marble processing technology. MARMO+MAC 2019 included visits to quarries and processing plants across Italy, as well as b2b meeting sessions with leading technology providers. The purpose of this trip was to allow international marble and stone industry professionals to learn about the latests technology and innovations while seeing them at work. MARMO+MAC 2019 program was designed to encourage peer to peer networking

In Leonardo da Vinci’s time 500 years ago to the present day, Italy remains a beacon of innovation in the arts as well as in science, technology and engineering. In keeping with Leonardo’s legacy, Machines Italia and the Italian Trade Commission (ITA) partnered with Collision - a sold out, highly anticipated tech-conference that took place from May 20 to 23, 2019 at the Enercare Centre in Toronto - to contribute to Canada’s high tech boom with a touch of Italian ingenuity. Billed as one of the fastest growing and largest tech-conferences in the world with a whopping 25 000 attendees from over

Expo Pack Guadalajara, the second largest Mexican trade fair for packaging materials and technologies, took place from June 11 to 13, 2019 at the Expo Guadalajara exhibition center in Guadalajara, JL. The event registered over 17,000 visitors and approximately 7,000 exhibitors on 150,000 square feet of floor space. The growing international relevance of the show was attested by the numerous country-specific pavilions among which, the most prominent ones, were Argentina’s, the United States’, Brazil and France. The Italian Trade Commission (ITA), in partnership with UCIMA - the Italian