Giancarlo Losma passed away last Friday, April 30th, 2021. He was past president of UCIMU-SISTEMI PER PRODURRE, the Italian machine tools, robots and automation systems manufacturers' association, which he led from 2008 to 2011. A visionary entrepreneur, founder of the company of the same name, Losma SpA based in Curno (Bergamo), Giancarlo Losma was 74 years old and had many ideas for the future of its entrepreneurial activity, to which he devoted his whole life, assisted by his wife, Letizia. Enthusiastic about its job, President Losma had established his enterprise in the Seventies

The rebound of the natural stone sector worldwide starts with MARMOMAC. The main international trade event for the lapidary industry was held in Verona, Italy September 30th - October 3rd, 2020 and its positive outcome was a statement of the resiliency of the sector in the face of the global pandemic. MARMOMAC RESTART 2020 was a three-day virtual event packed with meetings, networking sessions, seminars and showcase the latest in technology and products. VeronaFiere trade show venue, Associazione Italiana MARMOMACCHINE (CONFINDUSTRIA MARMOMACCHINE), the association representing the Italian

The figures for July-September 2020 clearly reflect what’s happening in this key segment of the Italian mechanical engineering industry. In general, the orders of machinery and tools for wood and furniture are recording a decreasing trend below expectations, which indicates a partial improvement of the economic situation compared to the previous quarters, strongly impacted by the lockdown. This trend indicates that the industry’s production system has identified the necessary countermeasures to carry on, within a context where the role of digital communication tools to support business is

Sesto San Giovanni, 1st October 2020. In 2019, the Italian machine tool manufacturing industry ranked fourth among manufacturing countries and fourth also among exporting countries, overtaken by China that stole its historical third place. On the contrary, its fifth position in the ranking of consumer countries remained unchanged, as a confirmation of the importance of the Italian market in the international scenario. After a 2019 that was certainly not positive, the year 2020 marked a collapse of investments in machine tools, in Italy and abroad, but a consumption recovery is expected already

Waiting for more details to evaluate the impact of the pandemic on the industrial economy, based on the analysis of the Acimall Studies office we can illustrate the trend of wood and furniture technology in 2019. Unfortunately, those twelve months were characterized by hardly encouraging signals for the health of our industry, a suffering condition that can only get worse after the dramatic events of the first months of 2020. “Now more than ever, it is essential to understand the economic situation of the industries we represent,” said Dario Corbetta, director of Acimall, the Confindustria

The announcement naming the new director was made Monday, February 3rd: “Cattaneo’s lengthy, deeply rooted experience with associations and Confindustria convinced us that he was the right person for GIMAV,” stated GIMAV President, Michele Gusti. Taking office immediately, he replaces Laura Biason, who left the association at the end of 2019. Cattaneo will assist the Board and President Gusti in guiding the glass processing machinery manufacturers association along a pathway of international outreach, strewn with some very significant challenges and events. Cattaneo’s background includes an

From May 5 to 10, 2019 a group of 50 stone industry professionals from various countries were invited to Italy for MARMO+MAC 2019, a familiarization road trip focused on stone/marble processing technology. MARMO+MAC 2019 included visits to quarries and processing plants across Italy, as well as b2b meeting sessions with leading technology providers. The purpose of this trip was to allow international marble and stone industry professionals to learn about the latests technology and innovations while seeing them at work. MARMO+MAC 2019 program was designed to encourage peer to peer networking

The year 2018 was really good for wood and furniture industry technologies. The final figures processed by the Studies Office of Acimall, the Confindustria member association that represents industry companies, have driven up previous forecasts: 2018 closed with domestic production at 2.514 billion euro, up by 10.6 percent from the previous year. Definitely a significant result, the best in the past ten years, net of inflation, achieved with a first semester that was very positive on both the domestic and the export side, followed by a second half that basically maintained the same levels of

2018 PRELIMINARY BALANCE Again this year we can say that "…the barometer for woodworking and furniture industry machinery and plants keeps pointing to nice weather". We used the same expression at the end of 2017, which closed with 11.6 percent growth over 2016, and we are repeating it this year to tell you about an excellent 9.5 percent growth recorded by production in the past twelve months compared to 2017. All economic variables analyzed by the Studies office of Acimall, the Confindustria association that represents industry companies, indicate that 2018 was another positive year