Dear Italian Subsidiaries in North America, We would like to bring to your attention the opportunity to be part of the next edition of our magazine “Machines Italia” which is a complementary opportunity for your company to gain additional exposure within the North American marketplace. For context, you may review previous editions of the magazine at www.old.machinesitalia.org/magzine The following provides all indications and suggestions on the magazine and how your company can possibly be featured. The Chicago Office of the Italian Trade Agency, with a specific selection procedure entrusted

Fedrigoni, one of the world's leading manufacturers of special papers for packaging, publishing, graphics, and labeling, based in Verona, Italy, has expanded considerably in Mexico in the last 9 months. The strategy began to take shape in the Latin American country at the beginning of December 2020 when the company took over Industrial Papelera Venus, a company that develops, produces, and distributes self-adhesive materials, a leader on the local market. The acquisition was completed to increase production capacity, expand the offer, create favorable supply synergies, strengthen the presence

An Italian fabric maker is locating manufacturing operations in Orangeburg County. Pratrivero USA Inc., a division of Pratrivero Nonwovens, is investing $17.6 million and creating 34 new jobs in the former Mayer Industries building at 3777 Industrial Boulevard. Industrial Boulevard is near Interstate 26’s Exit 145. The investment includes $6.5 million in buildings and $11.1 million in machinery and equipment. The 34 new jobs will be realized within the next three years. Headquartered in Italy and family-owned and operated for 14 generations, Pratrivero Nonwovens provides fabrics used in a

The Italian international leader in the design and manufacture of customized extrusion lines for processing of plastic materials, Bausano, announced the introduction of its next generation lines of twin-screw plastic extruders in the US and Canadian markets. With world-renowned “made in Italy” quality and unrivaled technological innovation, Bausano’s two renewed product lines - MD Plus and MD Nextmover - are best suited for several types of extrusion, pipes, granules, wood plastic composites (WPC), profiles and materials used in the medical industry. Bausano twin-screw extruder lines are

LAMIERA, the international exhibition focused on the industry of sheet-metal forming machine tools and innovative technologies related to the sector , scheduled to take place at fieramilano Rho from 26 to 29 May 2021, has been officially postponed for one year. The new date of the event promoted by UCIMU-SISTEMI PER PRODURRE and organised by CEU-CENTRO ESPOSIZIONI UCIMU is as follows: from 25 to 28 May 2022. In consideration of the protracted stop to exhibition activities and the extension of mobility restrictions and other types of limitations, set forth in the new Decree of the President of

Promoted by CECIMO, the European Association of Machine Tool Industries, and organised by the operational structures of UCIMU-SISTEMI PER PRODURRE, the Italian machine tools, robots and automation systems manufacturers' association, EMO MILANO 2021, the leading world exhibition for metalworking industry, will take place at fieramilano Rho from 4 to 9 October, when the recovery of investment should already have started. Metal forming and metal cutting machine tools, production systems, enabling technologies, robots and automation, solutions for interconnected and digital factories and additive

On Wednesday, 24 February, a Press Conference for the South Korean public was held to present EMO MILANO 2021, the world exhibition of reference for the metalworking machine tool manufacturing industry, scheduled to take place at fieramilano in October 2021. The speakers of the meeting, which was web-streamed, were Mr Luigi Galdabini, General Commissioner of EMO MILANO 2021, Mr So-Ahn Kang, Director General at KOMMA, Korea Machine Tool Manufacturers’ Association, and Mr Vincenzo Calì, Italian Trade Commissioner - Italian Trade Agency Seoul - Korea. The conference involved more than 40

26 January 2021 On Friday, 22 January, a Press Conference for the Taiwanese public was held to present EMO MILANO 2021, the world exhibition of reference for the metalworking machine tool manufacturing industry, scheduled to take place at fieramilano in October 2021. The speakers of the meeting, which was web-streamed, were Mr Luigi Galdabini, General Commissioner of EMO MILANO 2021, Mr Tommy Hsu, President of TAMI, Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry, and Mr Paolo Quattrocchi, Executive Director at ICE-Italian Trade Agency, Taipei. The conference involved more than 50 participants –

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

ICA, a leading, Italian-based supplier of coating solutions for the wood and glass industry, continues its global expansion by establishing a North American subsidiary in Ontario through the take over of its local distributor. ICA North America oversees the sales and distribution network in Canada, USA and Mexico until the US office is operative. For ICA, this is the 6th FDI abroad office in the past 10 years in its key markets: Spain, Germany, China, India, Poland and Canada. ICA has also a manufacturing facility in India, in Gujarat state, in partnership with a Pidilite. ICA group employs