The Gimav Studies Centre releases official data on the sector: the growth trend continues for the 8th consecutive year "This marks the eighth consecutive year of growth. The upswing in exports continues, and domestic market indicators are starting to improve as a result of the Industry 4.0 Plan incentives. Our sector is growing, and it's very gratifying to be able to say that the effects of the downward trend that marked the national and international economy in 2009 are definitively behind us now". This was the initial comment by Laura Biason, Director of Gimav, the Confindustria member

Innovation Days 2018 (hashtag #attendID) takes place in the week of June 25th in Detroit and Chicago, offering Midwestern companies in the automotive, advanced manufacturing and robotics industries extensive opportunities to engage with a group of Italian delegates organized by the Italian Trade Agency via its Rome and Chicago Offices. This weeklong program will underscore Italy’s position as US top solution provider while encouraging engagements between some of Italy’s leading companies and universities as they seek to expand existing relationships and build new ones with industry peers

Milan, 12 March 2018 - Already 2656 exhibitors from 54 countries and 126,585 m 2 have been confirmed three months before the event. Expectations are growing for The Innovation Alliance, the new trade fair, which will take place from 29 May to 1 June 2018 at Fiera Milano. The event will include, for the first time, five events with linked by a common thread, i.e. the supply chain logic: PLAST, the reference event for the plastic and rubber industry; IPACK-IMA, the leading event for processing and packaging technologies; MEAT-TECH, the event specialised in meat processing and packaging

Milan, 17 January 2018 - 2018 is here, and Print4All is getting ready for its debut. Based on solid foundations, in the next few months, (from 29 May to 1 June at Fiera Milano) the event is going to complete and enrich its content with printing and converting solutions on any type of media and for any marketing, productive, and communication requirement. An ambitious project shared with the market, which did not hesitate to confirm its trust in this event. On the Printing & Communication front, the event is now even stronger thanks to the participation of leading brands, such as Agfa, Canon

Marmo+Mac is the leading global trade event for the natural stone industry. It encompasses the entire sector’s supply chain, from raw material to semi-finished and finished products, from processing machinery and technologies, to applications of stone in architecture and design. The figures of Marmo+Mac 2017 confirm its leadership status: 67,186 visitors, 60% of which are from 146 countries, 1,670 exhibitors, 64% from 52 countries. Machines Italia Mexico, in partnership with VeronaFiere and CONFINDUSTRIA MARMOMACCHINE, the association representing the Italian marble and stone machinery

The journey along the road to the event continues with the opportunities for printing in every stage of the purchasing process as the common thread. Milan, 29 June 2017 - A sheet of paper, a canvas, a white surface gradually acquire colours, shapes, and content. Just like a printing process, the road to the next edition of Print4All continues, identifying needs, making suggestions, developing ideas and projects at the printing world’s service. With less than a year to go, Print4All, the event that will be held in Fiera Milano from 29 May to 1 June 2018, is set to be Italy’s most interesting

At the invitation of the Italian Trade Agency and UCIMU – Sistemi per produrre (Italy’s machine tool, robots, automation systems and ancillary products (NC, tools, components, accessories) manufacturers' association), I joined six representatives of Canadian manufacturing companies on a visit to Lamiera in May. Lamiera is Italy’s metal forming tradeshow, which was being held for the first time in Milan (it was previously held in Bologna). The show included 480 exhibitors, a substantial increase of 25 per cent from last year’s show. The Canadian manufacturers I had a chance to speak to were

An industrial sector in a good state of health with an annual turnover in excess of 44 billion euros and a strong export propensity which opens up exciting business opportunities is the picture of the Italian processing and packaging industry painted by the Ipack-Ima Monitor, the half-yearly business study conducted over a sample of companies representing the entire supply chain. The industry, consisting of manufacturers of processing and packaging machinery, suppliers of components and producers of materials, serves a range of downstream industrial sectors divided up into a number of business

The international press conference discussed the new corporate structure, the layout based on target markets, the international promotion activities and The Innovation Alliance. The first international presentation of IPACK-IMA 2018, the leading exhibition of food and non-food processing and packaging technologies scheduled for Fiera Milano from 29 May to 1 June 2018, was held on Saturday 6th May during Interpack. In the presence of journalists and representatives of business associations and companies from Austria, Brazil, China, France, Greece, Germany, Italy, Nigeria, Singapore, Sweden

MEAT-TECH 2018, the exhibition for the meat and fish processing and packaging industry, is launching theme sections devoted to several important steps in the production process. The refrigeration chain and equipment for production, cutting and packaging will take centre stage at the 2018 show. Planning work on MEAT-TECH 2018 is continuing in order to respond to and anticipate market needs. Part of THE INNOVATION ALLIANCE, the event organised by IPACK-IMA will be held in the Milan exhibition centre from 29 May to 1 June 2018 and is currently in the process of presenting the new MEAT+ project to