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Varinelli Officine Meccaniche S.r.l.

VARINELLI co. built the first broaching machines in the early fifties. Generally, they were simple Internal Broaching Machines. These broaching machines were later developed and improved, and today are built for specific industrial sectors and manufacturers of small and medium size. The Western Europe Motorcar Industry, in great evolution from the end of fifties up to sixties, was the vehicle for VARINELLI to promote continuous and further developments in the broaching field. Thanks to some Patents and manufacturing agreements obtained from the USA broaching machines manufacturers, and thanks

Italy Addresses the Needs and Concerns Facing the Landscape of Global Manufacturing

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CHICAGO – The Italian Trade Commission's Chicago Office (ITC), represented through its project Machines Italia, will be one of the major sponsors of the World Business Forum 2010 (October 5 th and 6 th). On the second day of the Forum (October 6th) during the official program itself, Dr. Luca Majocchi, former CEO of Unicredit, one of Italy's major commercial banking institutions, and currently managing director of Meccano SpA as well as an advisor to FEDERMACCHINE (Italy's National Federation of Associations of Manufacturers of Capital Goods Intended for Industrial and Handicrafts

Leather Production Still Fashionable in Italy

Italy produces approximately 50% of the machinery used to produce footwear and leather goods around the world and 80% of tanning machinery globally, according to Assomac, an association that represents Italian manufacturers of machines for footwear, leather and tannery industries. Many of the manufacturers are small, with the entire industry employing approximately 6,200 people in Italy. There are three basic tanning centers in Italy, says Peter Helfer, a managing partner at Campex LLC, an Exeter, N.H., a company that sells Italian leather-making machinery in North America. Whole hides and