Italy's Meccanotecnica Riesi (MR) was approached by the Robotic Mobility Group Laboratory of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for the production of a wheel prototype which it manufacturers that would help MIT, in conjunction with NASA-JPL, to better understand the underlying mechanics of wheel-terrain interaction. MIT’s Robotic Mobility Group required precise machining because, “a vehicle’s ability to navigate soft soil has strong implications for both its power efficiency and mobility.” MR collaborated with MIT to design and manufacture a fully instrumental wheel. Using its

Italy's Antares Vision announced a strategic partnership agreement with Xyntek Inc, the American global leader in real-time IT and industrial automation solution for the medical and pharma industry. Under this agreement, both teams will cooperate to develop distribution, local technical support and assistance of Antares inspection systems and e-pedigree applications in the US market. This agreement follows a long record of organizational and technology investments of Antares Vision sales and after-sales expansion on a worldwide scale. According to Emidio Zorzella, Antares Vision CEO, "Our

Italy's Arcadia SpA, a developer of food packaging which it claims can extend the shelf life of a variety of products is planning to open a US manufacturing site to cope with expected demand. Click on the source link to read the full article. About Arcadia SpA The packaging is: product, image, research and quality. Packaging is everywhere: there is no product that does not have a package which characterises it, protects it, transports it and explains it. Everything is packaged, put in an envelope, boxed, bagged, wrapped in paper, bottled or wrapped in film. Arcadia, taking over an activity

Italian textile machinery industry has become a benchmark in worldwide research for innovative technologies designed to reduce production costs and improve environmental impact. As part of its “Sustainable Technologies” project, ACIMIT firstly created the green label, a certification that aims to identify and render easily comprehensible the energy and environmental performances of textile machinery, in particular by pointing out the quantity of equivalent emissions of carbon dioxide (Carbon Footprint - CFP) produced during the machine’s operation. Subsequently, the Association chose RINA (www

SAN FRANCISCO, July 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Santerno has been awarded with a supply contract for 155 MW of Santerno skid inverter stations to be installed in an Imperial Valley, California solar plant. "This contract is a milestone for Santerno, as it signals our entrance into the USA Solar Farm Market," says Guido Tonin, Executive Vice President of Santerno Inc., the North America subsidiary of Italy's Santerno Group, located in San Francisco. "The supply to the Project in California is completely in line with our globalization plans for the Solar Farm market segment," says Marco Tecchio, CEO

MIDWEST EXCHANGE Inc. announced their plans to proceed with their own PET Recycling plant to produce 100% recycled PET material, giving Greater Chicago region a World Class facility and closing the loop for recycling in North America. “We believe this to be a great step in our sustainability program and provides our clients with an environmentally friendly option to using virgin resin”, stated Alex Casillas, President and Founder of MIDWEST Exchange “Our goal is to eliminate our dependency upon foreign virgin PET resin by producing locally and manufacturing recycled resin (RPET) from local

If you rely on the mainstream news media to help you assess the U.S. economy’s health, Alan Beaulieu wants to bring you out of your depression. As president of ITR Economics, which regularly analyzes the GDP health of developed and developing countries, he suggests you put your crying towel away and buy yourself something. And if you have to borrow money, do it—as long as your company’s fiscally healthy. This is the message he left with attendees at a strategy session conference held yesterday, sponsored by Industry Week magazine and the Italian Trade Commission, and held at The Inn at St

PLYMOUTH, MICH. -- A key to Chrysler Group's return to profitability is a plant performance improvement program developed by parent company Fiat SpA (IW 1000/87) , said Mauro Pino, the company's head of World Class Manufacturing at the Machines Italia manufacturing 3.0 conference in Plymouth, Mich., Thursday, June 21, 2012 Chrysler first implemented Fiat's program, called World Class Manufacturing , three years ago as a continuous-improvement system focused on all plant processes, including safety, maintenance and quality. As an offshoot of the program, Chrysler opened in January a learning