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Italian Print/Convert Machinery: State of the Industry Report 2013 & New ACIMGA President Elected

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Milan, June 18th 2013 – Marco Calcagni (Omet) is the new President of ACIMGA for the two-year period 2013-2014. Elected during the General Member Assembly that took place today in Milan, Calcagni will be flanked by Vice-President Aldo Peretti (Uteco Converting) and by the following offices: Board of Directors Ugo Barzanò, past president (IMS Deltamatic), Silvana Canette past president (Flexotecnica), Felice Rossini past president (Rossini), Daniele Barbui (ACE di Barbui Davide&Figli), Alberto Brivio (BP Agnati), Giovanni Cama (Cason), Alfredo Cerciello (Nordmeccanica), Costanza Cerutti

Bottero SpA

Bottero SpA has been manufacturing machines and systems for processing glass for over 51 years, from the first tilting tables to the first automatic lines, creating the world’s first machine for cutting laminated glass in 1975, moving on to CNC technology cutting machines in the 1980’s and the modular series of the 1990’s. This is the result of the continuous work of the most qualified technicians to find quality solutions at reasonable prices for the company’s international customers. The design of the machines, as well as the study and construction of special systems to suit individual

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

Mexico produces auto parts for everyone

Mexico increased the value of its auto parts production by 10.3% between 2011 and 2012, displacing South Korea as the fifth largest global manufacturer of automotive parts and components. Mexico's main advantage over Asia was the diversification of sales, since while the bulk of South Korea's auto parts production is for its assembly plants (such as Hyundai, Kia and SsangYong), Mexico serves several Asian, American and European brands, explained Oscar Albin, president of INA. Since 2009, the auto parts sector in Mexico has recorded a sustained increase and in 2012 production reached a historic

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

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

Brustia-Alfameccanica Srl

Brustia started producing shoe making machinery in 1957, and over the years has specialized in heel nailing/heel attaching machines in a complete series for lasting (machines for pulling over and lasting, heel seatside lasting, heel seat lasting machines). Later on, through their subsidiary Alfameccanica, the production line has been completed with the backport moulding machine. Seventy percent of the production, about 500 machines per year in various models, is destined for export throughout the whole world. Brustia can be found in all the major shoe companies in the main markets like China

Atom SpA

65 years of history and more than 200.000 machines manufactured and distributed represent the best “business card” to summarize what ATOM brand means in the cutting world: a brand byword of quality, reliability and technology of all the products licensed by the plants of the prestigious company with the headquarters located in Vigevano (Italy). Products which throughout the years, as a result of constant investment in research and development, moved from the consolidated die cutting presses to the recent prestigious automatic oscillating knife cutting systems. This witnesses the capacity of