The Gimav Studies Centre releases official data on the sector: the growth trend continues for the 8th consecutive year "This marks the eighth consecutive year of growth. The upswing in exports continues, and domestic market indicators are starting to improve as a result of the Industry 4.0 Plan incentives. Our sector is growing, and it's very gratifying to be able to say that the effects of the downward trend that marked the national and international economy in 2009 are definitively behind us now". This was the initial comment by Laura Biason, Director of Gimav, the Confindustria member

The Italian Government’s adoption of the National Industry 4.0 Plan for industrial technological and digital transformation represents a great opportunity for manufacturing companies operating in Italy. The plan aims to raise tax incentives for investments in goods and technologies that connect physical and digital systems, in order to conduct complex analysis (Big Data) and adapt manufacturing systems in real time. The 2017 Budget Law introduces new tax incentives and increases existing incentives for companies investing in technological and digital transformation in accordance with the

The 2017 EXPO PACK took place in Guadalajara, JA, from June 13 to 17, 2017. Fifteen thousand professional buyers - from a wide range of industries, including food processing, beverage, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics & personal care, graphic arts, chemicals, textile, footwear, automotive, hardware, furniture and electronics - attended the Guadalajara event; the largest Latin American show for packaging and processing technologies and materials. EXPO PACK Guadalajara 2017 featured 500 companies on nearly 13,000 net square meters of exhibit space (140,000 net square feet). The Italian Trade

Pack Expo Las Vegas 2017 saw, once again, a strong presence of Italian packing machinery manufacturers, thanks to the continued participation of the Italian Trade Agency Chicago Office and the Italian association for the industry UCIMA. This year’s show took place from September 25th through the 27th at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The Italian Trade Agency and UCIMA organized an Italian pavilion Booth #S-6249 to promote the over 30+ Italian exhibitors at Pack Expo and to provide information to US companies looking to gain and or maintain their competitive edge in the marketplace by using

Italy’s Trentino region is home to over 800 companies in the mechanics and mechatronics industry. The sector employs almost 10,000 people, which makes it Trentino’s largest employer, and provide an important contribution to the region’s exports. The Office of the Italian Trade Agency in Chicago together with Italy’s Trentino Sviluppo invited 10 US companies to explore partnership and sourcing opportunities from leading Italian technology solution providers from in the region. The trip took place from June 18th to 21st, 2017. US delegates met with their Italian counterparts and visited

The Manufacturers’ Outlook is a yearly study conducted by Plant magazine and key business partners. Over 500 respondents – manufacturing industry executives from across Canada - participate in the survey by sharing their views on what has transpired over the past year and on what they expect in the near future. The replies are then analyzed and summarized in a report, which is reviewed and discussed by a panel of experts and industry media. The report and the panelists’ insights are then made public and circulated through Plant magazine and the other Annex Business Media outlets. Since 2009

At the annual members’ meeting held on 30 June 2017, GIMAV officially presented and shared the data on the Italian Flat Glass and Hollow Glass industry. The report, titled “The Italian industry of glass processing machinery, systems, accessories and special products in 2016” – provides a comprehensive and detailed annual snapshot of the industry, highlighting its structural characteristics, sales, production activity, domestic and export markets (the latter in particular were cross-checked with data published by Istat, the Italian National Institute of Statistical Surveys). The last survey by

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

An industrial sector in a good state of health with an annual turnover in excess of 44 billion euros and a strong export propensity which opens up exciting business opportunities is the picture of the Italian processing and packaging industry painted by the Ipack-Ima Monitor, the half-yearly business study conducted over a sample of companies representing the entire supply chain. The industry, consisting of manufacturers of processing and packaging machinery, suppliers of components and producers of materials, serves a range of downstream industrial sectors divided up into a number of business

The 2017 EXPO PACK will take place in Guadajara, JA, from June 13 to 17. Fifteen thousand professional buyers - from a wide range of industries, including food processing, beverage, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics & personal care, graphic arts, chemicals, textile, footwear, automotive, hardware, furniture and electronics - will attend the Guadalajara event; the largest Latin American show for packaging and processing technologies and materials. EXPO PACK Guadajara 2017 will feature 500 companies on nearly 13,000 net square meters of exhibit space (140,000 net square feet). The Italian Trade