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Italian Plastic Machinery: State of the Industry Report 2013

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ASSOCOMAPLAST, tthe Italian trade association belonging to CONFINDUSTRIA, which groups together some 165 makers of machinery, moulds and equipment for plastics and rubber, has produced its 2013 full-year forecast for the industry on the basis of foreign trade data for the first nine months of the year provided by ISTAT, Italy's National Institute of Statistics. The slight dip in exports (-2.8% with respect to January-September 2012) could be recovered in the fourth quarter thanks to the expected economic recovery, early signals of which have been noted recently by the CONFINDUSTRIA Research

Italian Manufacturers' Association Assocomaplast Leads Italy's Recovery

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On 6 June 2013, at Verdellino-Zingonia, CESAP hosted the annual meeting of Assocomaplast (the Italian trade association belonging to Confindustria, which groups together some 160 manufacturers of machinery, moulds and equipment for plastics and rubber). The association's president, Giorgio Colombo, opened his presentation by confirming the dates of the upcoming PLAST trade show, which is organised by Promaplast srl, Assocomaplast's commercial company, and will be held in Milan May 5-9 2015. This means that the three-yearly international plastics and rubber industry event will be opening its

Machines Italia Presents At Packology 2013 In Rimini, Italy

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Machines Italia NAFTA will be one of the presenters during the June 11th Conference / Seminar entitled Business in the US: Do Right, Do It Now held onsite during the Italian Packaging Machinery Show: Packology 2013 in Rimini (June 11-14, 2013). Machines Italia representatives from the Chicago Office of the Italian Trade Commission (ITC) will present the numerous and beneficial tools available to Italian packaging machinery manufacturers, offered by the ITC to Italian companies looking to enter or reinforce their presence in the US market. Scheduled attendence number is to be over 100

Kris Srl

In 1959, after having learned the art of printer and paper technology, Carlo Granconato decided to become an entrepreneur and started in business making die forms. In those days, die forms were for the greater part made with type-founding margins and the time of the American dies had begun. Business went like a storm and Carlo decided to manufacture cutting, creasing and perforating rules in addition to brass creasing matrixes. In 1974, Carlo and his son Massimo concentrated their energies in the study and production of self-centering creasing matrixes, thanks to which the company experienced

IMS Deltamatic SpA

The IMS Deltamatic SpA designs and produces customized machinery for the web-converting industry (IMS and OMM brands) and for the automotive interior makers (Deltamatic brand). The Headquarters is located in Calcinate, near Bergamo, where it has a large and modern factory, equipped with up-to-date tools for design, machining and manufacturing; another production factory is located in Mandello del Lario (OMM), on the Como Lake. In the United States, the company Kasper Machine Corporation in Madison Height (MI), near Detroit, constitutes its American unit. The "Converting Division" is

Europrogetti Srl

Europrogetti Group is made up of 6 highly specialized companies. Europrogetti builds automatic lines used by the box makers to manufacture paper covered rigid boxes and by the cardboard converting industry to laminate different kinds of paper/paperboard with rigid/microwave cardboard. The lines for the box makers are characterized by their flexibility, rapid size change over, adjustable pressure time, box finishing on the long or short side, up to 40 mm inside paper turn-in, back flap turn-in for clamshell and video-cassette boxes, standard and "T- shaped" wrapping, etc... And they can produce

LEMA Lavorazioni Edilmeccaniche Albavilla Srl

LEMA was born in 1949 in Erba (Como) just as a small factory, and shortly after moved to Albavilla (Como) into an industrial complex that covers an area of three thousand square meters. After more than sixty years of experience in the production of molds and presses for the ceramic tile market, the brand LEMA has become known all over the world. The fact that LEMA produces both presses and molds allows them to offer excellent quality results. The technicians of all ceramic makers that use Lema’s presses and molds for special pieces receive all the maximum support from LEMA quality products

Volber Srl

Volber, was born in 1968 and at the beginning started with metallic furniture for shoe makers. Now, Volber produces dust extractors and shoe machines; and is now part of the leadership for dust extractors, and brushing machines and sanding machines. Their pride is to make all passages for the steel to finished machine so they have control on quality.

Italian Plastic Machinery: State of the Industry Report 2012 - Exports Drive Improvements

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Assocomaplast (the Italian trade association belonging to CONFINDUSTRIA, which groups together some 165 makers of machinery, molds and equipment for plastics and rubber) has issued its report on the sector's performance in 2012 – based also on the Italian National Institute of Statistics - ISTAT foreign trade statistics. Even more than in the past – and more markedly than in other Italian mechanical equipment sectors – production output was driven by exports, with an upward trend that, despite levelling off over the year, enabled Italian equipment manufacturers offset extremely weak domestic

Anzani Srl

Anzani, established in 1953 as a manual conveyors producer for the shoe factories department knew that they were going to transform small artisan shoe makers to medium-sized firms. The shoe industrialization therefore found Anzani always beside the most important Italian and foreigner producers. This allowed them to design and create machinery to meet with the ever growing needs of automation. Their production was diversified and standard or vacuum heat setters, steamers, chillers, vacuum dryers, re-activators and several other solutions became part of their new range. Over the course of the