During a roundtable discussion organized on 20 March 2013 at the European Parliament in Brussels, the European coalition of machinery industry associations, represented by CECE, CECIMO, CEMA, FEM and EUROMAP, called on the European Parliament to fully support and further strengthen the Commission proposal for a new Regulation on Market Surveillance. During the discussions, there was widespread…
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…
Safety & Market Surveillance Package: a milestone to machinery compliance? As a long-time promoter of effective and efficient market surveillance, the European machinery industry warmly welcomes the European Commission's Package presented on February 13, 2013, yet calls for more ambitious measures in order to tackle the challenge of non-compliant machinery in the Internal Market.
"The…
This January 2013, in Hannover, Germany the signing of a business agreement took place between Deutsche Messe AG and Ipack-Ima Spa for the creation of the new exhibition INTRALOGISTICA ITALIA 2015, planned for May 19-23, 2015 at the FieraMilano exhibition center in Rho. The show will be held in conjunction with IPACK-IMA and the EXPO – two extremely prestigious, public-drawing events.
In order…
Promoted and supported by Italy's plastics and rubber processing machinery and moulds manufacturers' Association, ASSOCOMAPLAST, a new Technical Committee, called 270 Plastics and Rubber Machines, has been activated recently by the International Organization for Standardization, ISO.
At the kick-off meeting which took place in Milan on December 13, 2012, the Committee's…
According to statistics provided by the association, Assocomaplast, Italian imports and exports for the sector recorded new gains in the first half of 2012 with respect to the same period in 2011.
Italian exports for the sector, marked a substantial increase (+11%) exceeding 1.23 billion euros overall. This has produced measurable improvement in the balance of trade, which has reached…
Italian exports of graphic, paper and converting machinery have increased by 4.82% in the first quarter of 2012. Imports are also showing an impressive + 9.94%. Such are the figures published by the Research Center of trade association ACIMGA based on Istat data.
The same source reveals that the USA remains the first buyer of Italian machinery with a 68.8 % increase, followed by Germany and…
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The value of Italian textile machinery production for 2011 registered a 9% increase compared to 2010, from 2.4 to 2.6 billion euros. A similar increase was recorded for exports (+10%), which reached a value of just over 2.1 billion euros.
Exports remain the driving force behind the sector growth in Italy. The dynamism of major textile markets combined with the ability of Italian machinery…
The 2010 figures reported by Italian packaging machinery manufacturers show that the industry has put the crisis firmly behind its back. The sector's turnover totalled 3,759 million euro at current prices, 16,4% up on 2009, when it slumped to 3,229 million euro. Last year's turnover even surpassed that of 2007 (3,610 million euro) and was not far short from the record figure of 3,827 million euro…