From October 5 to 10, 2015, Italy hosted the 2015 edition of EMO ( http://www.emo-milano.com/en/home/), the international exhibition of metalworking machines, tools, robots and automation. It is promoted by CECIMO (the European Association Of Machine Industries And Metalworking Technologies, www.cecimo.eu/site) and takes place every 3 years, in Hannover, Germany and in Milan, Italy. EMO Milano 2015’s slogan was "We build the future" and zoomed in on the most advanced metalworking technologies available on the market. With over 1,400 participating exhibitors and 150,000 visitors from various

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The 10th volume of Machines Italia Magazine was circulated in both print and digital formats to 60,000 C-level managers across North America, through the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) outlets including major trade fairs in the US, Canada and Mexico. Machines Italia Magazine vol. X is now also available online http://www.old.machinesitalia.org/magazine The goal of Machines Italia Mag is to inform North American manufacturers of technological solutions offered by Italian companies through case studies and client experiences in the three NAFTA markets. The 2015 edition features a host

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

The Italian Technology Award program includes the Italian Packaging Technology Award (IPTA), specific to the packaging technology sector. The IPTA program asks students to write an analysis of innovations in packaging technologies for a chance to win a trip to Italy to visit leading packaging machinery manufacturers. Italy is one of the world’s main suppliers of machinery and materials for the packaging sector. The IPTA program is coordinated and organized by the Italian Trade Agency’s Chicago Office, and co-sponsored in Italy by UCIMA (Italian Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Association

The Italian Machine Tool Technology Award (IMTTA) program asks senior students attending premier North American universities to write theses on contemporary innovations and issues taking place in mechanical engineering-related industries. The aim of the program is to enrich the engineering education advancing knowledge on significant technological issues within the industry for the next generation of engineering professionals. Recent winners of the IMTTA won a two-week trip to Italy and have taken part in certification programs such as those offered by the Polytechnic University of Milan. The

Machines Italia Canada and Canadian Manufacturing, Annex Publishing, Canada’s largest publisher of industrial media, teamed up to develop The Industrial Edge Showcase. An online review which brings together stories of Canadian manufacturers using technology and innovation to stay on the cutting edge. Behind each Canadian success story there is Italian-made machinery and technology. Among the companies featured in the Industrial Edge Showcase: Elemex, Lofthouse Manufacturing, MAPEI, Printoh, Recochem, Prinoth, Tycos – Magna. More to be added soon. Read the case studies at http://www

Six Canadian end users and distributors of Italian agricultural technology and machines were invited on a four day trip to Italy to visit Expo Milano 2015 ( www.expo2015.org/en/index.html?packedargs=op=changeLang) world fair taking place in Milan from May 1st to October 31, 2015. The focus of Expo Milano was “Feeding the World” and the trip was geared toward illustrating the contribution of Italian companies to the global agricultural industry. The program of the initiative which was sponsored by the Italian Trade Commission and FEDERUNACOMA ( www.federunacoma.it/en), the Italian Agricultural

EXPO MANUFACTURA is Mexico’s most important international trade show for the manufacturing industry featuring technology and equipment ranging from forming technologies, alloys, laser machines, micro and nano-technologies, robotics, mechatronics, control and instrumentation, quality control systems, precision engineering systems, sustainable manufacturing systems and additive manufacturing. The show will take place in Monterrey, NL, from February 2 to 4, 2016.