Machines Italia

Design News' editor, Sylvia Barak takes an inside look at Ferrari's pursuit of excellence through its manufacturing philosophy.

Design News' editor, Sylvie Barak, interviews Assocomaplast's director, Mario Maggiani during the Plast 2012 show in Milan on various subjects as the future of plastics and current views on plastics along with how Italian plastic machinery manufacturers are innovating their product offerings.

Italy's Cavanna SpA which provides packaging systems for the food, drug and cosmetic industries is to hold a grand opening celebration on May 24th, 2012 for its new factory and North American headquarters in Duluth, Georgia

Automation World's Digital Managing Editor, Grant Gerke writes on the expanding partnership betweek Fiera Milano and Deutsche Messe as they announce a new event called TPA Italia at a news conference at the FluidTrans trade show in Milan, Italy.

Adrienne Selko, editor for IndustryWeek magazine, provides her insights into the dynamics of Italian manufacturing witnessed during her recent trip to Italy as part of the Machines Italia US/Canada Journalist Delegation to Italy (May 6-16, 2012)

Sacmi (www.sacmi.com) the industry's leading manufacturer of compression molding equipment for closures, created a breakthrough process which combines compression molding and blow molding that delivers significant advantages over conventional processes, providing enhanced quality, higher productivity, sustainability benefits and the potential for lightweighting.  Sacmi, the original developer of the process, collaborated with Amcor Rigid Plastics (world's leading producer of rigid plastic packaging) in year long project to adapt the technology for pharmaceutical packaging and have commercialized the industry's first Compression Blow Forming (CBF) machine for the production of rigid HDPE pharmaceutical bottles. 

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, in Bologna.  The delegation hosted by the Italian Trade Commissions of both Canada and the US, and Machines Italia, an initiative designed by the commission to promote Italian-made machinery and technology to manufacturers in North America.  Follow Matt Powell's live feed of the events at: