PLAST, held in Milan every three years, is one of the most important exhibitions for plastics and rubber industry worldwide. The whole range of products is represented in PLAST exhibits areas: Injection moulding, extrusion, blow moulding, thermoforming and welding machines, Machines for foam, reactive and reinforced resins, Molds and dies, laboratory control and test equipment, ancillary equipment for plastics and rubber processing, Machines for secondary processing, finishing, decorating, marking and plastics packaging, as downstream equipment, Machines and equipment for the plastics and

The Italian Trade Agency Office in Mexico City hands out the Italian Plastic Technology Award and the Italian Packaging Technology Award. The project aims to create a link between graduates and undergraduates in engineering programs at leading Mexican universities, and to increase their awareness of leading technology and solutions available in Italian plastics and packaging machinery. Each award had been organized alongside its respective Italian industry association: ASSOCOMAPLAST (the Italian Plastics and Rubber Processing Machinery and Moulds Manufacturers’ Association, www.assocomaplast

Assocomaplast, the Italian plastics and rubber processing machinery and moulds manufacturers’ association, and Machines Italia Mexico will be organizing an Italian pavilion at the upcoming PLASTIMAGEN MEXICO – Latin America’s largest plastic industry trade show that is taking place in Mexico City, from March 8 to 11, 2016. For additional information on the Italian company exhibiting at the show please contact please contact mexico [at] machinesitalia.org

In the second quarter of 2015, imports of machinery and equipment, (15 Machines Italia sectors), from Italy, increased 21%, from $155 million to $187 million (CAD). Italy is the fifth largest supplier of industrial technology to Canada with a market share of 3.1%, (+5.5%). Topping the Italian technology exports to Canada are metalworking machinery and tools, food processing machinery and equipment, packaging machines, plastics and rubber processing machines.

The statistical analysis performed by Assocomaplast (Italian trade association, part of CONFINDUSTRIA, representing over 160 companies) on foreign trade data provided by ISTAT regarding the first six months of this year , reveals – in comparison to January-June 2014 – a markedly positive performance for Italy's exports and imports of plastics and rubber machinery, equipment and moulds. The growth recorded since the first months of 2014 has continued this year and actually has increased: by the end of June 2015, the rise in purchases from abroad approached 17%. This provides further reassurance

The annual members assembly of ASSOCOMAPLAST – the Italian trade association belonging to CONFINDUSTRIA, which groups together over 160 makers of machinery, moulds and equip-ment for plastics and rubber – was held on Friday, 19 June at the Science and Technology Mu-seum in Milan. The assembly elected a new President for the two-year term 2015-2017: Alessandro Grassi, managing director of Frigosystem srl, who in turn named Andrea Franceschetti, international sales director for Gefran spa, as Vice President of the association. The members assembly was followed by the public Assocomaplast

PLAST breaks up the 3 years cycle with the next PLAST being held September 26 - 30, 2017, instead of May 8 - 12, 2018. The show will then continue on its usual triennal frequency. This is the big news announced on the first day of the exhibition. NPE moving from the month of March to May 7-11, 2018, as well as the overlapping with FEIPLASTIC this year, has surely affected such decision but not crucially. Every operator of the sector knows that PLAST in 2018 would have taken place in a year already crowded of important exhibitions: PLASTINDIA (in February), NPE (as just mentioned from 2018 in

December 18th, 20914 (Milan, Italy): Assocomaplast (the Italian trade association, belonging to CONFINDUSTRIA, which groups to-gether some 170 machinery manufacturers) has compared ISTAT foreign trade data for January-September of the current year with data for the same period in 2013 and confirms further growth in both imports and exports. Exports rose by over 4% while purchases from abroad grew by over 7%. This has also led to a consolidation (+3%) of an already strong balance of trade. However, we must underscore that the positive trend in exports, traditional driver for Italian

START PLAST has the objective of providing a seedbed for new projects in a venue where all the players necessary for launching a startup can be found and a very positive message can be sent out: it is still possible to do business in Italy. “Given the way the recession is dragging on and the serious difficulties that continue to plague all of Italian business, including the plastics and rubber industry,” stated Mario Maggiani, Managing Director of the organizer, Promaplast Srl, “we feel it is our duty to find a way to facilitate young entrepreneurs and the companies that represent our future

ASSOCOMAPLAST, tthe Italian trade association belonging to CONFINDUSTRIA, which groups together some 165 makers of machinery, moulds and equipment for plastics and rubber, has produced its 2013 full-year forecast for the industry on the basis of foreign trade data for the first nine months of the year provided by ISTAT, Italy's National Institute of Statistics. The slight dip in exports (-2.8% with respect to January-September 2012) could be recovered in the fourth quarter thanks to the expected economic recovery, early signals of which have been noted recently by the CONFINDUSTRIA Research