SACMI IMOLA S.C., a leading Italian technology supplier to the ceramic, plastic and packaging industries, will soon be presenting a new Formsleeve+ labeling machine at open house hosted at its offices in Italy on March 13th 2013. Putting to work laser or solvent technology, this breakthrough machines utilizes roll-fed film, making sleeves that have a heat-shrink percentage that is equal to current optimal standards. With a more adjustable design, which uses pliable material selection management, SACMI's new Formsleeve + labeling machine can expedite efficiency levels reducing both machine

Italy's SIPA SpA via its SIPA North America, Inc. subsidiary is extending its North American operations in Atlanta, GA, as they continue to invest in the North American market. To support the rapidly increasing market demand for blow- and injection-molds from SIPA, the North American subsidiary decided to move to a new location, that covers 20,000 sq ft, and is conveniently located close to the main Atlanta international airport. With this enlarged space, SIPA has already been able to increase its efficiency in regards to assistance to their expanding customer base across the continent. Upon

Machines Italia PowerPoint presentation (In Italian) conducted by the Italian Trade Commission Offices (ICE-Agenzia) of Chicago, Toronto and Mexico City on February 27, 2013 at the offices of FEDERMACCHINE in Milan, Italy.

Safety & Market Surveillance Package: a milestone to machinery compliance? As a long-time promoter of effective and efficient market surveillance, the European machinery industry warmly welcomes the European Commission's Package presented on February 13, 2013, yet calls for more ambitious measures in order to tackle the challenge of non-compliant machinery in the Internal Market. "The European machinery industry, represented by CECE, CECIMO, CEMA, FEM and EUROMAP, warmly welcomes the proposal from the Commission, as it reflects many of the suggestions that our industry has made during the past

Orders of Italian textile machinery are on the rise for both the domestic and foreign markets. ACIMIT's President Sandro Salmoiraghi stated "What's needed now is to boost investments in capital goods and work together in foreign markets." Based on an industry study conducted by ACIMIT, the Association of Italian Textile Machinery Manufacturers, during the fourth quarter of 2012, the orders index for textile machinery rose by 22% compared to the previous quarter, for an absolute value of 130.4 points. Even more significant was the increase with respect to the same period the previous year (+46%

Promoted and supported by Italy's plastics and rubber processing machinery and moulds manufacturers' Association, ASSOCOMAPLAST, a new Technical Committee, called 270 Plastics and Rubber Machines, has been activated recently by the International Organization for Standardization, ISO. At the kick-off meeting which took place in Milan on December 13, 2012, the Committee's Secretariat was given to Ms. Paola Visintin of UNI, Italy's National Organization for Standardization. Scope of ISO/TC 270 is the standardization in the field of machines used for the preparation, processing and recovery of