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Exclusive Interview with Assocomaplast's President, Giorgio Colombo

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During a recent exclusive interview with Dr. Giorgio Colombo, President of Italy's ASSOCOMAPLAST, the national association for plastics and rubber processing machinery and mold manufacturers' association, he shared his thoughts and insights on the industry's transitional period experienced in 2013, current and future challenges faced by manufacturers and a clear outlook for 2014. President, do you feel that 2013 may be considered a year with more light or more shadow for the Italian plastics and rubber machinery industry? I think that 2013 is a year of transition after strong growth in 2011

MECHA-TRONIKA 2013: MEGA-SUCCESS Showcased And Awarded Italian Innovation in Advanced Manufacturing

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The first edition of MECHA-TRONIKA, the fair of intelligence for the industrial production recently completed its successful run October 23-26 at the Fiera Milano trade show center in Milan, Italy. MECHA-TRONIKA is a premier show dedicated to the systems and technologies able to optimize the machines, processes and systems management. Organised by EFIM-ENTE FIERE ITALIANE MACCHINE and FIERA MILANO, MECHA-TRONIKA is promoted by the official representatives of the sectors on display: AIDAM, Italian association of automation and mechatronics; ASSODEL, national association of electronic suppliers

CMB Costruzioni Meccaniche Besana SpA

CMB Costruzioni Meccaniche Besana SpA is one of the leading manufacturers in the world in the glass industry. Each product from CMB distinguishes for the top level quality, for the technology and for the performance and reliability. CMB offers custom-made solutions that can satisfy any kind of request from the small to the very big glass companies. It has a US Branch with the name of Besana-Lovati Inc. located in Winston-Salem N.C. to serve and assist on sales and technical assistance all the territories of North America, Canada and Mexico. CMB is manufacturing vertical edging machines

MG2 Srl

MG2 was founded in Bologna in spring 1966 by Ernesto Gamberini, a young designer of automatic machines, who involved a colleague and an aunt, as backers. The first location of the company was in a small warehouse in the outskirts of Bologna and there, Gamberini started to design and produce automatic machines for the food and pharmaceuticals industries. In 1967 MG2 received its first order for a capsule filling machine suitable to dose pharmaceuticals into hard-shell capsules: this product would gain so much success and become the core-business of the company. In fact, thanks to the experience

Goglio SpA

Goglio is present with production plants in Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, the United States and in China; sales and service offices with own stores are located in several European countries and in the Far East, in addition to a number of agents all over the world. Founded in Milan in 1850, today Goglio is leader in flexible packaging, rigid plastic accessories such as valves and spouts, and packaging machines. The integration of all these elements is represented by their trademark, Fres-co System. Their packaging lines include form, fill and seal machines for modified atmosphere and vacuum

AETNA Group SpA

AETNA Group SpA produces and sells, on a worldwide basis, stretch film wrapping machinery, bundlers, shrink film wrappers, cartoning and taping machines. The Group counts over 400 employees of which 80 servicemen engaged in the After Sales Department with a yearly turnover of over 85 million Euros. There are five production plants for the 4 commercial brands: ROBOPAC, ROBOPAC SISTEMI, DIMAC and PRASMATIC; as well as an international network of over 450 Agents and Distributors, and 6 subsidiary locations in France, Great Britain, Germany, the United States, Russia and China. With over than 100

Policrom Screens SpA

Policrom’s success originates in its experience and in the values that have been the milestones of its long history. Its originator, Giorgio Bisutti, caught since the very beginning a unique opportunity, which at that time was represented by glass screens for halftone reproduction, and founded a very innovative enterprise. After that, the Bisutti family developed the full potential of that product and thus set up a worldwide business network of distributors. The Company grew around values such as flexibility, service orientation, attention to quality, and proactivity in facing market changes

IMS Deltamatic SpA

The IMS Deltamatic SpA designs and produces customized machinery for the web-converting industry (IMS and OMM brands) and for the automotive interior makers (Deltamatic brand). The Headquarters is located in Calcinate, near Bergamo, where it has a large and modern factory, equipped with up-to-date tools for design, machining and manufacturing; another production factory is located in Mandello del Lario (OMM), on the Como Lake. In the United States, the company Kasper Machine Corporation in Madison Height (MI), near Detroit, constitutes its American unit. The "Converting Division" is

CastExpo 2013 & The Metalcasting Congress

Sponsored solely by the American Foundry Society (AFS), CastExpo is the single largest trade show and exposition for metalcasting in the Americas. CastExpo'13 will offer metalcasters, suppliers, and casting buyers and designers the opportunity to connect and educate themselves on the latest and greatest metalcasting has to offer. At this year's event according to show organizer information, Italy will have along with its foundry and metallurgical association of manufacturers, AMAFOND (Booth#566), the following companies exhibiting: IMF Group, O.M.LER 2000 Srl and Progelta Srl During its four

Italian Plastic Machinery: State of the Industry Report 2012 - Exports Drive Improvements

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Assocomaplast (the Italian trade association belonging to CONFINDUSTRIA, which groups together some 165 makers of machinery, molds and equipment for plastics and rubber) has issued its report on the sector's performance in 2012 – based also on the Italian National Institute of Statistics - ISTAT foreign trade statistics. Even more than in the past – and more markedly than in other Italian mechanical equipment sectors – production output was driven by exports, with an upward trend that, despite levelling off over the year, enabled Italian equipment manufacturers offset extremely weak domestic