Italian machinery maker Amut has acquired Comer Engineering, which manufactures sorting and treatment lines, to create Amut Ecotech. Amut says the acquisition will allow it expand its product range so will offer lines that can be placed upstream of its own products for washing and recycling thermoplastics. Comer Engineering is based in Maserada sul Piav, Italy, and manufactures equipment for sorting urban waste, plastics and E&E waste. Amut says the new firm has already received orders worth €10m.

Following the application of the limitations written into Euro VI for trucks, the construction machinery sector is also preparing for new measures for reducing polluting emissions. The European Commission is getting ready to revise Emissions Directive 97/68EU for such non-road mobile machinery as front loaders, excavators, backhoe loaders and other construction machinery with the aim of drastically reducing fine particles. The manufacturers representative for the sector, Comamoter, in the Unacoma association under the Confindustria National Manufacturers Federation, is lined up with the

With an investment of $US 10 million, The Italian company, Zanini Auto Group, will open a production plant in Tamaulipas to manufacture plastic automotive parts. The Secretariat of Economic Development and Tourism (Sedet) of Tamaulipas, stated that the project will generate about 240 jobs. The company plans to construct the plant in the border city of Reynosa. In a press release, the company stated that it chose Tamaulipas because of the state’s competent workforce, infrastructure, logistics, location and economic policy. Some of Zanini Auto Group’s customers are Ford, Volkswagon, Volvo, Fiat

Italian manufacturer OMET Srl, a leading manufacturer of of narrow- and mid-web printing presses and converting equipment, opens its first US Subsidiary, OMET America Inc. The US Operations will provide various advantages to its American, Carribean, and South American customers including: Local parts inventory, providing the shortest lead time; Technical engineers available for immediate service response; Provide on-site support for new press installations; Programs for periodic maintenance visits and training programs, available on demand; Online press service through Internet connection

Machines Italia Staff continues its conversation with the Lean Nation Radio Program during its live broadcast from Baltimore (MD) during the Association for Manufacturing Excellence Annual Conference 2010.

Machines Italia Staff took part in a frank conversation with the Lean Nation Radio Program during its live broadcast from Baltimore (MD) during the Association for Manufacturing Excellence Annual Conference 2010.

CHICAGO – The Italian Trade Commission's Chicago Office (ITC), represented through its project Machines Italia, will be one of the major sponsors of the World Business Forum 2010 (October 5 th and 6 th). On the second day of the Forum (October 6th) during the official program itself, Dr. Luca Majocchi, former CEO of Unicredit, one of Italy's major commercial banking institutions, and currently managing director of Meccano SpA as well as an advisor to FEDERMACCHINE (Italy's National Federation of Associations of Manufacturers of Capital Goods Intended for Industrial and Handicrafts

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