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Machines Italia and Italian Clean Technology Sponsor the Intersolar 2012 Innovation Exchange in SF

The Italian Trade Commission's Machines Italia project and its Italian Clean Technology desk take center stage this year at Intersolar North America 2012 (Booth # 8814) from July 10-12, 2012 at San Francisco's Moscone Center. The annual event, co-located with SEMICON West, expects 950 exhibitors, 22,000+ visitors and 1,600 conference attendees. The ITC will be the sponsor of the show's Innovation Exchange, featuring over 50 presentations on the latest in clean technologies and presenting its book "The Italian Edge: Technology for Sustainability" at the show. Within the Innovation Exchange, the

ITALIAN TECH WEEK: Small & Nimble Manufacturers are Global Problem Solvers - Machine Design Article

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Tens of thousands of engineers and technical managers from across Europe gathered in Northern Italy last month for a series of events loosely termed Technology Exhibition week. These included Fluidtrans Compomac (fluid power), Mechanical Power Transmission and Motion Control, Plast (plastics and plastics-processing machinery), Xylexpo (woodworking machinery) — all held in Milan — and Lamiera (metal-forming equipment), held in Bologna. Widespread interest in Italian components, machines, and technology belies the country’s current economic conditions. It’s no secret that Italy is caught up in

Radical Innovation at Italian Manufacturer - IndustryWeek Article

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Devoting 11-12% of sales to R&D has proven to be a successful strategy for SAES Getters, a producer of scientific and industrial applications where stringent vacuum conditions or ultra high pure gases are required. SAES' product applications span from the display industry, in all its forms from conventional CRTs to the new generations of flat displays, to the manufacturing of components used in several and diversified electronic devices ranging from x-ray tubes to wafer-level MEMS, from applications in particle accelerators and in large vacuum systems for physical experiments to solutions

PLANT takes on SAES Getters Spa - Plant Magazine Article

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The company, a Milan-based innovation think-tank that specializes in the production of components for ultra-high vacuum and gas purification applications for industrial customers invests at least 10% of its revenues in research and innovation annually, a practice it says saved the company. In 2009, SAES Getters recorded its worst sales in the 70 year history of the company, $164 million. It attributes that rough year to changes in technologies of one of its major industrial sectors. When consumer electronics companies were producing liquid crystal displays (LCD), SAES Getters provided vaccuum