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FALORNI TECH

Established in 1958 by Gianfranco Falorni, who began his business as a representative of well known suppliers of refractory materials for the glass industry, "Falorni Glass Furnaces" is today a renowned and successful company producing and installing complete glass melting plants. Starting from a counseling service, the company produces 'turnkey' systems for both artistic glasswares specialized in manual processing of glass, and the industrial glasswares having big automated plants. Thanks to the experience acquired over the years, the company is now able to offer systems with high quality

More Glass in the US and North American Buildings

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According to Laura Biason, Deputy Director of GIMAV, the Association of Italian manufacturers and suppliers of machinery, equipment and special products for glass processing, Italy is one of the main overseas suppliers of machinery to the United States. The figures were up this year according to the recently-published report by MAPI (Manufacturers’ Alliance for Productivity and Innovation) : in the first semester, glass processing machinery, at +63.2% over the same period last year, was the fastest-growing machinery sector. This preference for Italian-made machinery could be felt and was fully

Leather Production Still Fashionable in Italy

Italy produces approximately 50% of the machinery used to produce footwear and leather goods around the world and 80% of tanning machinery globally, according to Assomac, an association that represents Italian manufacturers of machines for footwear, leather and tannery industries. Many of the manufacturers are small, with the entire industry employing approximately 6,200 people in Italy. There are three basic tanning centers in Italy, says Peter Helfer, a managing partner at Campex LLC, an Exeter, N.H., a company that sells Italian leather-making machinery in North America. Whole hides and