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 –

October 2020 data released by Statistics Canada and Trade Data Monitor showed a solid positive growth for Italy’s exports to Canada of technology from the various (15) Machines Italia capital good related sectors. With a +5,47% Italy marks the best performance among the top 20 partner countries. Italy’s market share also grew +26%. In stark contrast, Canada's total imports of industrial machinery and equipment fell 16% in the first 10 months of 2021. Packaging machinery and agricultural machinery are Italy’s top performing sectors with a +33,3% and +21,8%. Equipment for the graphic and

The Italian Trade Agency and ASSOMAC, the Italian National Association that represents the Italian Manufacturers of Machinery for Footwear, Leather Goods, Tannery, and Related Accessories, organized an Italian Pavilion at Sourcing at Magic which took place, online, from September 15 to December 15, 2020. The Italian presence at Sourcing at Magic boasted 11 among the most representative Italian machinery manufacturers for footwear and leather processing including: S.P.S.Tecnologia Meccanica, Gus-bi officina Meccanica, Revomec, Ciucani Mocassino Machinery, Feltre, DV Leather, Mec Man, Lamebo

The pandemic that broke out almost one year ago strongly affected the results of the Italian industry of the sector, which registered double-digit decreases for all main economic indicators in 2020. However, the trend of the year 2021 should be completely different and, even if the ground lost over the last twelve months cannot be fully recovered, the forecasts are really positive. This is in brief what was reported by Barbara Colombo , president of UCIMU-SISTEMI PER PRODURRE, the Italian machine tools, robots and automation systems manufacturers' association, during the usual end-of-year

The speakers of the meeting, which was web-streamed, were Mr Luigi Galdabini, general commissioner of EMO MILANO 2021, Mr Kazuo Yuhara, general manager of JMTBA, Japan Machine Tools Builders’ Association, and Mrs Erica Di Giovancarlo, director of the Tokyo Office of ICE-Italian Trade Agency. The conference involved about 60 participants – among machine tool manufacturers, representatives of local organisations and journalists – who followed the conference in live streaming. In addition, other attendees will be able to take part in the broadcast press conference, available in the online section

Glass processing technologies enjoyed a positive 2019; especially brilliant for hollow glass. Expectations ran high for 2020 and then, the COVID-19 pandemic re-wrote the script. For now, reliable forecasting is impossible. INDUSTRY PERFORMANCE IN 2019 Positive results in 2019 (+2.7%) were driven by a rise in exports (+3.7%) allowing Italy’s glass processing technologies industry to continue the growth trend that has kept it in a starring role for the last decade. Thanks in part to the revision of the customs codes used in the survey, it achieved an absolute value of overall sales in excess of

Cinisello Balsamo 17 December 2019. The year 2019 marked the end of the positive trend, started in 2014 by the Italian machine tool, robot and automation industry. Nevertheless, the registered decrease is very moderate and shows how the values of the main economic indicators are returning to normal levels, after the exploit supported by the measures of Industry/Enterprise 4.0. The slowdown will continue in 2020. This is in brief what was illustrated by Massimo Carboniero, President of UCIMU-SISTEMI PER PRODURRE, the Italian machine tools, robots and automation systems manufacturers'

From 23 to 25 September, the Italian Automatic Packaging Machinery Manufacturers’ Association will be taking centre stage at Pack Expo, the most important event for the industry in North America. Following its success in Chicago in 2018, Ucima is preparing to return to the USA for Pack Expo (23-25 September), one of the most important international exhibitions devoted to processing and packaging. This year’s venue is the Las Vegas Convention Center, the location that hosts the show in odd-numbered years. The seventh stop in the association’s 2019 international promotional programme, the show

Last March, UCIMU-SISTEMI PER PRODURRE embarked on a trip to Canada to gather insights of the country’s thriving metalworking sector. The program of the fam trip that stretched across 4 days, from March 4 to 8. was custom tailored by Machines Italia and included production site visits (12) and meetings with key industry stakeholders (8) in Ontario and Quebec: Magna Powertrain Inc , Motor Specialty Manufacturing, NTN Bearing Corporation of Canada, Hibar, Mott Manufacturing Ltd, BMP Metals Inc, Tycos Tool & Die, North Star Technical Inc, Fred Hall and Son, Mecaer America Inc, ICC Industrial

The growth of the Italian packaging machinery manufacturers shows no sign of stopping. According to the preliminary figures published by the Research Department of Ucima (Italian Automatic Packaging Machinery Manufacturers’ Association), the sector’s turnover is expected to see further 6.8% growth to 7.7 billion euros in 2018. Both the Italian and international markets have contributed to these results. In 2018, export sales surpassed a value of 6 billion euros, 6.6% up on the previous year. According to the latest available disaggregated data relating to the first eight months of the year