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Brembo: USA-Mexico-Canada Sales +49.8%

The Italian company Brembo - present in Mexico with production plants in Puebla, Apodaca and Escobedo - closed the first half of the year with a net profit of 148.9 million euros, 17.3% higher compared to the same period last year. Revenues amounted to €1.75 billion, an increase of 28.3% compared to the first half of 2021. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (Ebitda) amounted to 305.3 million, a net increase of 13% compared to 270.2 million in H1 2021. The level of orders for the coming months "confirms a solid and good saturation of production capacity globally

Get Your Motor Running At EICMA 2016

EICMA is unarguably the largest international show for motorcycles, bicycles and e-bike and the two-wheel industry. Since its debut, over 100 years ago, the event keeps getting larger and larger. Here are some of the figures from the latest EICMA, which took place in Milan from November 8 to 13, 2016: - Visitors: 600,000; - Exhibition space: 3 million square feet (280,000 sqm); - Exhibitors: 1143, 45% of which from 41 countries, outside of Italy; - Media: 6,000. The Italian Trade Commission (ITA) and ANCMA, the Italian Motorcycles, Bicycles and Accessories Manufacturers Association, invited

Daily Planet Discovery Channel Canada: Machines Italia Is On Air

Machines Italia teamed up with Daily Planet, the flagship science magazine produced and distributed by Discovery Channel Canada, to film a series of segments on exciting scientific and technological innovations by Italian companies. The Daily Planet crew was in central Italy at the beginning of May 2016 and stopped in Livorno, Carrara, Bologna and Modena, where they shot stories on compelling technologies such as stone and marble extraction and processing, soft robotics, sports motorcycles and exotic sports cars. The first four segments aired between the end of May and December, 2016, within

Innovations In Aerospace, Automotive, Energy, Robotics And 3D Printing On Display At i3 Forum

Prime Minister Matteo Renzi made his first official visit to Chicago on March 30, 2016. The visit by the Italian head of state focused on Italian manufacturers in the Midwest at the ITA’s i3 Forum=Impact. Innovate. Integrate. at the University of Chicago’s Gleacher Center. “The i3 Forum provided a unique opportunity for U.S. and Italian manufacturers to address the challenges and trends in the marketplace through sharing practical experiences,” said Roberto Luongo, Director General of the Italian Trade Agency. "Chicago is not only the epicenter of the U.S. advanced manufacturing ecosystem, it

Machines Italia & Daily Planet, Discovery Channel Canada

Machines Italia teamed up with Daily Planet, the flagship science magazine produced and distributed by Discovery Channel Canada, to film a series of segments on exciting scientific and technological innovations by Italian companies. The Daily Planet crew was in central Italy at the beginning of May 2016 and stopped in Livorno, Carrara, Bologna and Modena, where they shot stories on compelling technologies such as stone and marble extraction and processing, soft robotics, sports motorcycles and exotic sports cars. The first two segments aired on May 17 and May 19, 2016, within episodes (S3)

Italy Invests in the US: Piaggio Group to Open Design Center in Pasadena (CA)

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The Piaggio Group is to open an Advanced Design Center in the USA, in Pasadena, California. The announcement was made yesterday in Miami by Group Chairman and CEO Roberto Colaninno, during the Piaggio Group Americas convention attended by more than three hundred US and Canadian dealers and the Piaggio Group distributors based in South America. The Piaggio Group Advanced Design Center will be headed by Miguel Galluzzi, a designer born in Argentina and raised in the USA, whose projects in Italy include some of the most celebrated motorbikes of the last twenty years: the Ducati Monster, the

COBO S.p.A.

COBO Group is composed of several companies, mainly located around Brescia and Reggio Emilia, that are in the heart of the industrialized area formed by the provinces of Milan, Turin and Genoa. The group applies itself to the development and production of electrical and electronic components, seats, steering wheels and completely assembled column kits for manufacturer of industrial vehicles, agricultural machines, earth moving machines and lift trucks, as well as custom-built cars and motorcycles. History: COBO was born in 1952 as a family company, to produce electric components for the