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UNITECH INDUSTRIES

By company size, turnover and worldwide sales Unitech Industries is among the leading manufacturers of machines for dry and wet finishing of woven and knitted fabrics, technical textiles, nonwovens, geotextiles and medical textiles. Unitech is also active in the field of digital printing being able to supply machines for fabric preparation, steaming and finishing after printing. The company is vertically organized starting from materials and components ending to the complete machine, including electric and software parts. Unitech always focuses the company activity on know-how, production

Lawer is an example of Italian excellence, a worldwide leader in the development of industrial dosing systems with over 50 years of experience in the field. Our firm was established in 1970 in the district of Biella, heart of the Italian textile industry. This provided the perfect environment for our growth and shaped our mission from the very beginning: the development of highest quality and efficient dosing solutions combining safety and sustainability. Automation is at the heart of Lawer’s dispensing and dosing solutions. Our systems guarantee high accuracy, daily repeatability and maximum

As expected, there was again a decrease in the index of the orders collected by the Italian machine tool manufacturers in the second quarter of 2020. In particular, according to the data processed by the Economic Studies Department & Business Culture of UCIMU-SISTEMI PER PRODURRE, in the period April-June, the index registered a 39.1% downturn compared with the same period of 2019. The outcome was due both to the reduction in the orders collected by Italian manufacturers on the domestic market (-44.7%) and to the fall reported on the foreign market (-37.8%). This is the actual figure

Glass processing technologies enjoyed a positive 2019; especially brilliant for hollow glass. Expectations ran high for 2020 and then, the COVID-19 pandemic re-wrote the script. For now, reliable forecasting is impossible. INDUSTRY PERFORMANCE IN 2019 Positive results in 2019 (+2.7%) were driven by a rise in exports (+3.7%) allowing Italy’s glass processing technologies industry to continue the growth trend that has kept it in a starring role for the last decade. Thanks in part to the revision of the customs codes used in the survey, it achieved an absolute value of overall sales in excess of

Italian manufacturing companies represent one of the major engines driving the country’s economic growth and development thanks to their ability to produce wealth and employment, make associated industries and services flourish and contribute to financial, economic and social stability. The Italian Trade Agency’s Chicago Office with this dossier intends to provide them with an overview about the current trends and virtual platforms available in the USA marketplace along with an orientation on the services offered by the Agency, so to afford them an ever-increasing number of opportunities to

Outlook 2020: From Re-set To Re-invent

Due to the spread of the novel coronavirus or COVID-19, the outlook for 2020 set out at the beginning of the year is now moot. An exogenous shock is hitting the USA and the global economy as a whole to an unknown extent. What is special about the new economic crisis is that there have been simultaneous supply and demand shocks which have commanded not only a reduction in jobs, output, and revenues but also a strong volatility and enormous losses of value on the financial markets. As a result of these shocks, the post COVID-19 manufacturing ecosystem is expected to create a paradigm shift both

Alabama Governor Greets The Expansion Of 2A S.p.A. Foundry

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey announced that 2A S.p.A., a prominent Italian die-casting company, planned to invest $15 million to expand its foundry in Auburn, where it serves as a Tier 1 supplier to major producers of automobiles and heavy trucks. The expansion project at 2A USA in Auburn will create more than 50 jobs and double the Auburn facility’s current die-casting area.“2A has earned a reputation for technical innovation, and its decision to expand its Alabama manufacturing operation is a testament to its skilled workforce in Auburn,” Ivey said. “We’re thrilled that this first-class company is

Waiting for more details to evaluate the impact of the pandemic on the industrial economy, based on the analysis of the Acimall Studies office we can illustrate the trend of wood and furniture technology in 2019. Unfortunately, those twelve months were characterized by hardly encouraging signals for the health of our industry, a suffering condition that can only get worse after the dramatic events of the first months of 2020. “Now more than ever, it is essential to understand the economic situation of the industries we represent,” said Dario Corbetta, director of Acimall, the Confindustria

As the current situation regarding COVID-19’s impact on the United States of America’s (USA) manufacturers rapidly changes, the Italian Trade Agency Chicago Office has included a number of what are considered trusted sources providing a wealth of updated information about the virus’s impact on the USA manufacturing economy. Of these sources, IBIS World, Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation and National Association of Manufacturers have recently published surveys on the current impact the virus has and will have on manufacturers. IBIS World’s March 24, 2020 survey on the

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Even in the last quarter 2019, the collection of machine tool orders highlighted a negative sign. In particular, in the fourth quarter 2019, the UCIMU index of machine tool orders registered a 16% downturn compared with the same period of the previous year. The absolute value of the index was 105.5 (base 100 in 2015). The overall outcome was affected both by the negative performance of the domestic market and by the weakness of foreign demand. In particular, the collection of orders in the domestic market showed a 21.2% fall compared with the fourth quarter of 2018. The absolute value of the

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