IPACK-IMA has kicked off the new year with a packed programme of promotional events, intense media planning and new web initiatives for the next edition of the show due to be held in 2018. With 16 months still to go before the event begins, 60% of the exhibition space has already been booked by leading Italian and international processing and packaging technology companies. Alongside a direct sales network spanning 41 countries, in 2017 the promotional activities for IPACK-IMA will extend across numerous shows through collective participations organised by UCIMA. The first event will be Propak

The new exhibition, TTBois EXPO 2017, dedicated to technology for woodworking and furniture industry components will be held in Casablanca, Morocco, from June 29th to July 2nd 2017. Cepra, the operating branch of Acimall-Italian woodworking machinery and tools manufacturers’ association, is organizing a new exhibition in a very promising region, Northern Africa. The first event of TTBois Expo is planned from 29 June to 2 July 2017, in the premises of the International Fairgrounds Ofec in Casablanca (Morocco). Cepra’s partner for this initiative is Forum7, a Morocco-based organization with

Eni is involved in the ExoMars space mission by the European and Russian Space Agencies, developing a drilling system to explore Martian soil. Mars’s weak atmosphere doesn’t offer much protection from radiation and sunlight, so organic molecules are more likely to have been preserved underground than on the surface. The Rover will search for these molecules to see if they provide any hints that life existed on the planet. Recent missions to Mars have provided us with a wealth of information about the planet, but we’ve only just begun to scratch the surface. A new mission by the European and

So far this year, Italian investments in the US have been numerous and have been all over the map. The US States which have reported a string of recent Italian investments include Tennessee, Virginia, Illinois and Texas. Tennessee: In the first four months of this year, 2016, four noted Italian investments have taken place in “The Volunteer State” by the Italian companies Martinelli Ettore, Beretta, Del Conca and Sacmi. Martinelli Ettore had its grand opening in April of its new facility which had started operations in January. Operations will initially focus on Martinelli Group’s core

Benefiting from over 62 years of experience, OCME is known worldwide as one of the most trusted leaders and innovators within the field of integrated packaging, filling and handling technology. Based in Parma, Italy, OCME manufactures primary and secondary packaging machines including fillers, end-of-line and logistic machines for the beverages, food processing, detergents, petro-chemical and tissue sectors. In addition to being a machine supplier, OCME provides complete ‘turnkey’ lines and complete solutions. OCME prides itself on paying particular attention to the environment and its

The Italian company Fratelli Pezza Srl, founded 1970, is worldwide leader in the manufacture of sandblasting and marking equipment for flat glass. Located in northern Italy, the company produces a wide range of manual and automatic sandblasters including the top of the range MISTRAL EV series, whose software allows you to program up to 50 blasting areas on the glass plate as well as to create and store up to 50 customized working programs. The machine is also equipped with the shading blasting feature, a technique which is increasingly being used in modern architecture as it allows to produce

Sarong is the worldwide leader in quality thermoforming, fill and seal packaging machines, superior packaging materials and exceptional contract packaging, for food, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and household products. Sarong’s North American head office was established in 2012 and it is located in Mississauga (Ontario) Canada. To date, they delivered over 1000 machines worldwide for single dose serving packaging for food, pharmaceutical, cosmetics and household. Sarong’s machines are manufactured in Italy where quality comes first, containing over fifty patents related to thermoforming machines

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

ACIMALL Press Office, Assago, November 19, 2015: “We really feel that the next Xylexpo will be an essential stage in the success story of our exhibition: we are doing all we can to create a big event, an excellent review of innovative technology featuring all the leading actors of this industry. And I am proud to say that all Italian companies will be there!”. This is the comment by Lorenzo Primultini – president of the exhibition – about what we can expect at the next edition of the international biennial trade fair scheduled at FieraMilano-Rho from 24 to 28 May 2016. Primultini spoke at the