Innovation Days 2018 (hashtag #attendID) takes place in the week of June 25th in Detroit and Chicago, offering Midwestern companies in the automotive, advanced manufacturing and robotics industries extensive opportunities to engage with a group of Italian delegates organized by the Italian Trade Agency via its Rome and Chicago Offices. This weeklong program will underscore Italy’s position as US top solution provider while encouraging engagements between some of Italy’s leading companies and universities as they seek to expand existing relationships and build new ones with industry peers

LAMIERA, the international exhibition dedicated to the metal forming industry and related technology, took place in Milan – its new stage - from May 17th to 20th, 2017 at the Fieramilano Rho fair ground. The event showcased the latest and most modern metal fabricating and metal forming machinery and equipment and featured an extensive program of seminars, presentations and thematic exhibits. Over 23,000 professionals and almost 500 exhibitors participated at the 2017 edition of LAMIERA. The Italian Trade Commission and UCIMU-SISTEMI PER PRODURRE invited 110 foreign delegates from 13 countries

FABTECH will bring plenty of innovation and technology solutions to Chicago from November 6-9, 2017. More than 40,000 attendees and over 1,700 exhibiting companies are expected to gather once again to celebrate metal manufacturing at its best. As per previous editions of the show in Chicago, Italy will have 40 of its leading companies exhibiting. The event also provides educational sessions and expert-led presentations covering the latest trends and technology in the metal forming, fabricating, welding and finishing industries. In addition, FABTECH 2017 will showcase more manufacturing

At the invitation of the Italian Trade Agency and UCIMU – Sistemi per produrre (Italy’s machine tool, robots, automation systems and ancillary products (NC, tools, components, accessories) manufacturers' association), I joined six representatives of Canadian manufacturing companies on a visit to Lamiera in May. Lamiera is Italy’s metal forming tradeshow, which was being held for the first time in Milan (it was previously held in Bologna). The show included 480 exhibitors, a substantial increase of 25 per cent from last year’s show. The Canadian manufacturers I had a chance to speak to were

North Carolina based Advanced Ceramic Coatings (ACC), a joint venture between Ohio-based GE Aviation and Turbocoating Corp. of Italy, announced that it will invest $15 million to build a new 62,500-square-foot facility at Hillside Enterprise Park in Duncan and create 50 jobs. Local officials identified ACC as the company seeking incentives under the economic development project codenamed “Project Door.” The facility will be constructed on a piece of property at 1191 Howell Road within the 84.5-acre park owned by Indianapolis-based developer Scannell Properties. ACC’s site is near a 77,000

LAMIERA, the international exhibition dedicated to the metal forming machine tool industry and to all innovative technologies related to the sector, chooses Milan as its new stage. From May 17 to 20, 2017, the prestigious and modern exhibition centre of Fieramilano Rho, in Milan will host the next edition of LAMIERA. As usual, the event will showcase the latest and most modern technology for metal fabricating and metal forming as well as a very rich program of seminars, presentations and exhibits. Over 20,000 professionals attended the last edition of the show. The Italian Trade Commission and

The new exhibition, TTBois EXPO 2017, dedicated to technology for woodworking and furniture industry components will be held in Casablanca, Morocco, from June 29th to July 2nd 2017. Cepra, the operating branch of Acimall-Italian woodworking machinery and tools manufacturers’ association, is organizing a new exhibition in a very promising region, Northern Africa. The first event of TTBois Expo is planned from 29 June to 2 July 2017, in the premises of the International Fairgrounds Ofec in Casablanca (Morocco). Cepra’s partner for this initiative is Forum7, a Morocco-based organization with

The eighteenth edition of LAMIERA hosted by BolognaFiere May 11-14 the 2016 edition registered a 10% increase in the number of visits (compared to the 2014 edition). The show 20,395 visitors, of which 857 were foreign operators. The Italian Trade Agency Mexico City and Chicago offices took leading North American companies to the show, allowing them to take part in the 500 bilateral meetings which were organized between Italian exhibitors and foreign companies. The Agency through its international network of offices, brought other delegations as well from Austria, Germany, India, Iran, Poland