World trade is slowing, with political and economic turbulence emerging on many markets as well as uncertainty regarding a protectionist turn by certain world leaders, but the footwear, leather-goods and tanning machinery industry has delivered yet another positive year. “If we can take some credit – says Gabriella Marchioni Bocca, ASSOMAC President – it is for the fact that, despite all the uncertainty, our sector has managed to hold its ground. With world trade witnessing a slowdown in growth rates, footwear, leather-goods and tanning machinery has registered extremely positive levels in all

The journey along the road to the event continues with the opportunities for printing in every stage of the purchasing process as the common thread. Milan, 29 June 2017 - A sheet of paper, a canvas, a white surface gradually acquire colours, shapes, and content. Just like a printing process, the road to the next edition of Print4All continues, identifying needs, making suggestions, developing ideas and projects at the printing world’s service. With less than a year to go, Print4All, the event that will be held in Fiera Milano from 29 May to 1 June 2018, is set to be Italy’s most interesting

ASSIOT is the Italian Association of Gears and Transmission Systems Manufacturers. Founded in 1971, ASSIOT’s membership is now 100 companies strong, which represent 70% of the Italian power transmissions manufacturing industry, and approximately 9,000 employees. ASSIOT became the16th Machines Italia partner associations. Now the Italian Trade Commission’s sponsored project embraces 16 key industrial technology and machinery sectors. For further information on ASSIOT and the power transmissions industry, please contact assiot [at] assiot.it (subject: Machines%20Italia%20E-newsletter%20) .

PRINT4pack conference was held at Fiera Milano Rho, in Milao from September 20 to 21, 2016. The 2-day event was organised by ARGI, Italian Association of Graphic Industry Suppliers, ACIMGA, Italian Manufacturers Association of Machinery for the Graphic, Converting and Paper Industry, with the support of the Italian Trade Commission (ITA), the Ministry for Economic Development, as part of the Made by Italy program. The aim of the conference was to invite professionals from around the world to share their insights on the trends, opportunities, new materials and technologies in the graphic and

Last November, the Italian Trade Commission (ITA) announced the US winners of the thirteenth Italian Packaging Technology Award (IPTA), seventh Italian Machine Tool Technology Award (IMTTA) and the first-ever in the US - the Italian Glass working Technology Award (IGTA). ITA honored recipients for their outstanding theses submissions and academic scholarships with a one-week educational and cultural trip to Italy which commenced on November 27th, 2016. The 2016 US winners joined distinguished students from two other countries (Mexico, Russia) in an intense educational program at the Università

Every year, GIMAV conducts a survey of the Italian glass industry with the aim of providing an overview of the sector and information on its structure, sales, production and export markets. GIMAV is the Italian Association of Glass Processing Machinery and Accessories Suppliers and represents almost 80% of the Italian glass industry. The results were more than encouraging: the positive trend for Italian glass processing machinery, accessories, and special products posted a year earlier was repeated and consolidated in 2015. The report signaled a new wave of optimism for everybody

NOVEMBER 2016 – The Italian Trade Agency (ITA) is pleased to announce the U.S. winners of the thirteenth Italian Packaging Technology Award (IPTA) . seventh Italian Machine Tool Technology Award (IMTTA) and the first-ever in the US - the Italian Glassworking Technology Award (IGTA). ITA will honor recipients for their outstanding theses submission and academic scholarship with a one-week educational and cultural trip to Italy commencing November 27th, 2016. The 2016 winners will join distinguished students from four other countries (Mexico, Russia, Egypt and Indonesia) in an intense education

The recent PRINT4pack Conference held on September 20-21, 2016 in Palermo, Italy was part of the Made BY Italy promotional programme which Italy's ACIMGA association has been developing for years to support the Printing and Converting Industry and was organized in cooperation with ARGI (Italian Association of Graphic Industry Suppliers) and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency and Italy's Ministry for Economic Development. The Conference provided a unique opportunity to spread in the Mediterranean basin an innovative and propositive culture about the new role of Packaging and the new

The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in collaboration with PNICube, the Italian Association of Competitions for University Incubators and Local Business Plans, are honouring Italian start-ups that achieve significant success abroad in the fields of ICT, Science, Engineering and Technology, with its “L’innovazione che parla italiano” (Innovation that Speaks Italian) award. The awards will be jointly presented to the recipients by the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Mr. Paolo Gentiloni, and the Italian Minister of Education

The Italian Trade Agency (ITA) Chicago USA is currently organizing an upcoming U.S. buyer delegation to Italy in October 2016. The ITA, in cooperation with U.C.I.M.U.-SISTEMI PER PRODURRE, the Italian Association of Machine Tools, Robots, and Automation Manufacturers, is inviting U.S. based companies involved in the metalworking sector to attend the 30 th edition of the BI-MU show, which is set to be held in Milan from October 4-8, 2016. BI-MU is a biennial trade show exhibiting metalworking technologies, machine tools, accessories and tooling. The 29 th edition of BI-MU in 2014 hosted 1,060