The Italian Technology Award program includes the Italian Packaging Technology Award (IPTA), specific to the packaging technology sector. The IPTA program asks students to write an analysis of innovations in packaging technologies for a chance to win a trip to Italy to visit leading packaging machinery manufacturers. Italy is one of the world’s main suppliers of machinery and materials for the…

In the second quarter of 2015, imports of machinery and equipment, (15 Machines Italia sectors), from Italy, increased 21%, from $155 million to $187 million (CAD). Italy is the fifth largest supplier of industrial technology to Canada with a market share of 3.1%, (+5.5%). Topping the Italian technology exports to Canada are metalworking machinery and tools, food processing machinery and…

Since 1939, Cibus Tec, taking place in Parma, Italy from October 25 to 28, 2016, has been a benchmark for technological innovation in the food Industry and a showcase of the best solutions available on the market – from the ingredients to the processing technologies, from packaging to logistics – for all types of products: fruit & vegetables, milk & dairy products, meat & seafood,…