Social Media Will Keep Current and Past Participants Connected in 2015 and Beyond! The Italian Technology Award, now in its second decade, is a prize organized by the ITA - Italian Trade Agency ( www.italtrade.com) along with several partnering organizations. ITA and a host of sponsors encourage students and researchers from NAFTA regions and beyond to gain firsthand knowledge of leading Italian technologies deployed in machinery manufacturing industries, including machine tools, textile, plastic, ceramic, marble and packaging. Italy, one of the world’s main producers of advanced manufacturing

The Italian Trade Agency Office in Mexico City hands out the Italian Plastic Technology Award and the Italian Packaging Technology Award. The project aims to create a link between graduates and undergraduates in engineering programs at leading Mexican universities, and to increase their awareness of leading technology and solutions available in Italian plastics and packaging machinery. Each award had been organized alongside its respective Italian industry association: ASSOCOMAPLAST (the Italian Plastics and Rubber Processing Machinery and Moulds Manufacturers’ Association, www.assocomaplast

Assocomaplast, the Italian plastics and rubber processing machinery and moulds manufacturers’ association, and Machines Italia Mexico will be organizing an Italian pavilion at the upcoming PLASTIMAGEN MEXICO – Latin America’s largest plastic industry trade show that is taking place in Mexico City, from March 8 to 11, 2016. For additional information on the Italian company exhibiting at the show please contact please contact mexico [at] machinesitalia.org

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The statistical analysis performed by Assocomaplast (Italian trade association, part of CONFINDUSTRIA, representing over 160 companies) on foreign trade data provided by ISTAT regarding the first six months of this year , reveals – in comparison to January-June 2014 – a markedly positive performance for Italy's exports and imports of plastics and rubber machinery, equipment and moulds. The growth recorded since the first months of 2014 has continued this year and actually has increased: by the end of June 2015, the rise in purchases from abroad approached 17%. This provides further reassurance

December 18th, 20914 (Milan, Italy): Assocomaplast (the Italian trade association, belonging to CONFINDUSTRIA, which groups to-gether some 170 machinery manufacturers) has compared ISTAT foreign trade data for January-September of the current year with data for the same period in 2013 and confirms further growth in both imports and exports. Exports rose by over 4% while purchases from abroad grew by over 7%. This has also led to a consolidation (+3%) of an already strong balance of trade. However, we must underscore that the positive trend in exports, traditional driver for Italian

The opening of the energy sector in Mexico has generated the interest of the main companies in that sector in Italy. This was acknowledged by Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta, during his official visit to the country, after signing agreements to boost bilateral relations. "The opening of the energy field is, without a doubt, one of the most important sectors of interest", said Letta after affirming that both countries had 24 years of delay in cooperation. To this end, representatives of leading European companies in the field, such as TEGMA, which yesterday signed an agreement with the

Thanks to a "renewed high-level political dialogue," Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta's visit to Italy will strengthen the strategic relationship between Italy and Mexico, said Ambassador Alessandro Busacca. In an interview with Notimex, the Italian ambassador to Mexico emphasized that Letta's visit takes place within a framework of bilateral relations that he described as excellent, since both countries are united by close ties of friendship and collaboration. Within this framework, events scheduled for 2014 will take place, such as the Business System Mission next spring and the meeting

ASSOCOMAPLAST, tthe Italian trade association belonging to CONFINDUSTRIA, which groups together some 165 makers of machinery, moulds and equipment for plastics and rubber, has produced its 2013 full-year forecast for the industry on the basis of foreign trade data for the first nine months of the year provided by ISTAT, Italy's National Institute of Statistics. The slight dip in exports (-2.8% with respect to January-September 2012) could be recovered in the fourth quarter thanks to the expected economic recovery, early signals of which have been noted recently by the CONFINDUSTRIA Research

SALTILLO, Coahuila (10/10/2013) - This Thursday, President Enrique Peña Nieto, accompanied by the Secretary of Economy, Ildefonso Guajardo, inaugurated the new Chrysler assembly plant that was built in 18 months to manufacture the new Ram ProMaster commercial vehicle and with which the automaker is positioned to improve its participation in domestic production and sales as well as in exports of vehicles manufactured in Mexico. He also said that Chrysler will join the large-scale production of a new engine at its Ramos Arizpe plant in the same state. With both projects whose investment is 1,249