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Sustainability Award Winner - Taghleef Industries SpA

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April 20th, 2011 Written by Pat Reynolds, Editor-in-Chief Now in its third year, AIMCAL’s Sustainability Competition recognizes equipment, materials, or processes that reduce environmental impact, minimize energy usage or waste, and’or increase recycling. Taghleef Industries SpA, makes the Nativia flower sleeve film from a renewable resource, corn, at its San Giorgio Di Nogaro, Italy, facility. The compostable material not only protects the flowers during transport and handling but also presents an eye-catching appearance. Compared to petroleum-based polymers, PLA offers a smaller carbon

Thomas SpA

Since 1951 Thomas SpA has been producing metal sawing machines, offering the world its values of experience, technology, reliability and safety, with solutions that are always innovative and can benefit the quality of the work of the professionals using them. The firm can claim over fifty-five years of excellence in the sector and customers find the right quality/price ration in the Thomas brand together with a very high level of technical support. Thomas SpA offers its customers a wide range of metal sawing machines from traditional circular saws to the most modern band saws, in manual, semi

Innse Berardi SpA

The Machine Tool Division of the Camozzi Group arises from the fusion of two historical brands of Brescian Industry: Berardi SpA founded in 1926 and Innse Macchine Utensili SpA founded in 1887. INNSE BERARDI SPA's working plants are located in Brescia, Via Attilio Franchi 20. The recent acquisition of Ingersoll (2003) has further strengthened the machine tools division. This company, located in Rockford, Illinois, is an international leader in the production of special machine tools for aeronautic/aerospace, defense and energy fields. The production range of the machine tools division includes

Pedrazzoli IBP SpA

Today, PEDRAZZOLI IBP SpA is one of the leading companies in the international field of machine tools. Its importance, which began in the 70s, is strengthened by the wide spread of PEDRAZZOLI tube benders and cutting lines, mass produced and sold by a wide network of sales agents and resellers who are skilled in providing after-sale assistance to our clients. Its headquarters are in Bassano del Grappa, in the Venice region (Italy), but PEDRAZZOLI IBP SpA has many branch offices, that provide assistance in some of the most developed countries such us the United States, Brazil, the United

Italy Addresses the Needs and Concerns Facing the Landscape of Global Manufacturing

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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

Leather Production Still Fashionable in Italy

Italy produces approximately 50% of the machinery used to produce footwear and leather goods around the world and 80% of tanning machinery globally, according to Assomac, an association that represents Italian manufacturers of machines for footwear, leather and tannery industries. Many of the manufacturers are small, with the entire industry employing approximately 6,200 people in Italy. There are three basic tanning centers in Italy, says Peter Helfer, a managing partner at Campex LLC, an Exeter, N.H., a company that sells Italian leather-making machinery in North America. Whole hides and