For journalists and press operators planning to visit PLAST 2018–International Exhibition for Plastics and Rubber Industries (May 29-June 1, 2018 at the FieraMilano fairgrounds in Rho) – an online pre-registration service is available up to Friday April 27, 2018. Journalists preregistering will receive a pass that allows them to enter the show – as well the concurrent events which join The Innovation Alliance ( http://www.theinnovationalliance.it/?lan=en) - free of charge throughout the entire duration, and to access PLAST 2018 Press Office (located at the service center of FieraMilano), which

+109%: this is the increase in Italian exports of machinery, equipment and moulds for plastics and rubber processing to Russia in the first nine months of 2017 with respect to the same period one year earlier, based on analyses of ISTAT foreign trade data by the Statistical Studies Center of Amaplast – trade association within CONFINDUSTRIA including over 170 manufacturers. This excellent trend has brought Russia – major historical European outlet market – back into the top ten Italian export destinations after four years of significantly poor performance resulting from the combined effect of

The international press conference discussed the new corporate structure, the layout based on target markets, the international promotion activities and The Innovation Alliance. The first international presentation of IPACK-IMA 2018, the leading exhibition of food and non-food processing and packaging technologies scheduled for Fiera Milano from 29 May to 1 June 2018, was held on Saturday 6th May during Interpack. In the presence of journalists and representatives of business associations and companies from Austria, Brazil, China, France, Greece, Germany, Italy, Nigeria, Singapore, Sweden

As of the first deadline for applications, more than 600 companies have confirmed their participation in PLAST 2018 – international exhibition for the plastics and rubber industries, which will take place in Milan from 29 May to 1 June 2018 – reserving an area about two thirds as big as that occupied in the 2015 fair. This is a noteworthy result, particularly in light of the fact that many Italian and foreign exhibitors have reaffirmed their intention to display plants and systems in operation, thus providing an exhaustive and up-to-date technology showcase. PLAST 2018 confirms its stature as

Assocomaplast (the national trade association, member of CONFINDUSTRIA, including over 160 manufacturers of plastics and rubber processing machinery, equipment and moulds) has developed ISTAT foreign trade data for the sector in the first half of 2016 and compared them with those for the same period in 2015. The data show imports at nearly 390 million euros, with a new peak (+9.7%) deriving from steady growth in April-June after a negative first quarter. This would seem to reaffirm the signs of recovery in the domestic market that had shown up on the radar last year. The trend in exports this

Distinguished U.S. Students Win Italian Technology Award to Study Advanced Engineering in Italy NOVEMBER 2015 – The Italian Trade Agency (ITA) is pleased to announce the U.S. winners of the twelfth Italian Packaging Technology Award (IPTA) and sixth Italian Machine Tool Technology Award (IMTTA). ITA will honor recipients for their outstanding theses submission and academic scholarship with a one-week, respectively, educational trip to Italy commencing November 29, 2015 and concluding on December 5, 2015. The 2015 winners will join distinguished students from five countries in an intense

Italian auxiliary equipment manufacturer Moretto SpA has opened its first U.S. operation, in Columbus, Ohio, to handle sales, service and spare parts. Mr. Paolo Gasparotto, business development manager, said the 15,000-square-foot facility opened in October to cover the United States and Canada. Initially, Moretto is employing four people in Columbus, but Gasparotto said the company will add staff as business expands. Moretto SpA, based in Massanzago, Italy, is an international maker of auxiliary equipment, operating subsidiaries in Germany, Poland, Brazil, Turkey and now, the United States