The year 2015 will not be remembered as a season of records, but for the Italian woodworking technology industry the past twelve months were undoubtedly better than expected. The trends based on the positive figures of the preliminary balance published by the association in mid-December (for convenience, see the table in the left column of this press release) will probably be revised upwards…
An impressive installation covering 2,600 square meters will represent the comeback of SCM Group at the next Xylexpo, the biennial international exhibition of the wood and furniture industry, to be held at FieraMilano-Rho from Tuesday 24 to Saturday 28 May, 2016.
This long-awaited news will be one of the focal points of the event, celebrating its 25th edition in 2016.
“We were extremely…
The woodworking technology and wood-based materials industry keeps showing encouraging trends: preliminary figures for the current year speak for themselves, showing a fully positive sign for all major indexes. The analysis carried out by the Studies office of the Confindustria-member association ACIMALL, gathering the industry's leading companies provides a brighter picture than many were…
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…
Italy's INglass Srl recently broke ground on its first facility in the US, which will be located in Byron Center, Michigan. INglass Srl, an Italian maker of molds for the plastics industry is investing $17.6 million in the West Michigan project and plans to employ 109 people over the next four years. Facility highlights The 45,000-square-foot facility, located at 920 74th St. SW in Byron…
Bonfiglioli Riduttori S.p.A., the Bologna, Italy-based leader in power transmission for mobile and self-propelled machines, announced that it will be expanding its Hebron, KY operations in Q4 2014. The expansion will include the progressive addition of new production lines of planetary gearboxes for mobile machinery to support the construction, mining, agricultural and forestry industries. The…
KIIAN USA, Inc. officially opened for business on 27th September 2013 at a formal event to mark the launch of the digital textile and signage ink production and expansion of the Kiian digital business in the Americas. This exciting development was part of a strategic programme to internationally expand KIIAN's ink business.
The establishment of a regional HQ in one of the most important of all…
Paulding County Economic Development (PCED) and RONCHI America, LLC. announced Monday that RONCHI Mario, S.p.A of Milan, Italy, one of the world's leading manufacturers of high speed flow meter based liquid filling and automated packaging machinery for the personal care, house hold cleaner and pharmaceutical industries has selected Paulding County for its new U.S. headquarters location. The…
Brevini is a worldwide specialist in planetary technology. After 50 years of experience we developed a product range of gearboxes which goes from very small applications to >2,5 million N/m.
We needed a new manufacturing location for the upper range (above 1 million N/M) where we could deploy the best possible technology. We focused on the wind market because it is one of the biggest for…
Custom Polymers PET, LLC announced that it has expanded its PET operations in Athens, AL, adding 70 million pounds of clean post-consumer PET flake to their product line. The Company has made a substantial investment in new processing equipment (much provided by Italy's Amut SpA) and a new 50,000 square foot building. In total, Custom Polymers PET, LLC now occupies 250,000 square feet with…