The biennial international exhibition has decided to squeeze its calendar from five to four days. From the next edition – scheduled from Tuesday 26 to Friday 29, May 2020, at FieraMilano-Rho – Xylexpo will last shorter: the decision was taken unanimously by the managing board of Cepra, the operating arm of exhibition owner Acimall, at the meeting held on October 10. “This option had been on the table for a while”, said Luigi De Vito, vice president of Acimall and Scm Division director. “The pace has changed, the exhibition business – like the manufacturing industry and the woodworking

Innovation Days 2018 (hashtag #attendID) took place the week of June 25th in Detroit and the greater Chicagoland area, 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. The weeklong program underscored Italy’s position as US top solution provider while encouraging engagements between some of Italy’s leading companies and universities as they seeked to expand existing relationships and build new ones with

The Gimav Studies Centre releases official data on the sector: the growth trend continues for the 8th consecutive year "This marks the eighth consecutive year of growth. The upswing in exports continues, and domestic market indicators are starting to improve as a result of the Industry 4.0 Plan incentives. Our sector is growing, and it's very gratifying to be able to say that the effects of the downward trend that marked the national and international economy in 2009 are definitively behind us now". This was the initial comment by Laura Biason, Director of Gimav, the Confindustria member

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

The 2018 edition of Xylexpo is going to be a milestone in the 50-year success story of the event: the area has been virtually sold out for a few weeks now and, with the addition of a fourth hall, the exhibition will get close to 35 thousand net square meters, a significant progress from 29,189 in the previous edition, when the area expansion amounted to two thousand square meters compared to 2014. So, after many "highs and lows", Xylexpo – the biennial international exhibition of woodworking and furniture industry technology to be held at FieraMilano-Rho from Tuesday 8 to Saturday 12 May, 2018

Milan, 17 January 2018 - 2018 is here, and Print4All is getting ready for its debut. Based on solid foundations, in the next few months, (from 29 May to 1 June at Fiera Milano) the event is going to complete and enrich its content with printing and converting solutions on any type of media and for any marketing, productive, and communication requirement. An ambitious project shared with the market, which did not hesitate to confirm its trust in this event. On the Printing & Communication front, the event is now even stronger thanks to the participation of leading brands, such as Agfa, Canon

The week-long visits of the Italian Technology Awards winners recently concluded. An international program sponsored by ITA (Italian Trade Agency), it is part of a “ Machines Italia” special project aimed at expanding the educational horizons of North American students through cross-contamination of skill-sets and knowledge transfer with a select group of Italian machinery manufacturers. For the second consecutive year, GIMAV – the Association of Italian manufacturers and suppliers of machinery, equipment and special products for glass processing – made its own contribution to the program by

The Italian Government’s adoption of the National Industry 4.0 Plan for industrial technological and digital transformation represents a great opportunity for manufacturing companies operating in Italy. The plan aims to raise tax incentives for investments in goods and technologies that connect physical and digital systems, in order to conduct complex analysis (Big Data) and adapt manufacturing systems in real time. The 2017 Budget Law introduces new tax incentives and increases existing incentives for companies investing in technological and digital transformation in accordance with the

On May 11th, 2017 the Italian Trade Agency Chicago Office was interviewed during the Rapid + TCT 2017 Conference in Pittsburgh, hosted by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers. The show is one of the premier events for Advanced Manufacturing and provides a forum on the new trends and outlooks for Industry 4.0 and beyond. The ITA’s spokesperson talked about its mandate to assist and promote Italian advanced manufacturing technology in the US and illustrated the Italian government's national plan, Industry 4.0, and how it will benefit Italian manufacturers investing in innovation. To watch the

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