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Italians got to preview the Emerson Group’s Control Techniques Unidrive M family of drives.

Italian Manufacturers’ Input Sculpts New Drive Family

Last month, after reaching other main cities of the Old Continent, the Control Techniques European Roadshow finally landed in Milan.

Italian Machine Makers Look to 2020

Last year was confirmed to be a good year for the Italian Woodworking And Furniture Industry represented by Acimall, the industry member association.

In Italy, Automation Recovers Cheese and Helps Humans

Everyone in the world heard in May about the earthquakes that occurred in the central and northern parts of Italy, where many industries have their headquarters.

Visitors and exhibitors crowded SPS/IPC/Drives Italia, heedless of the earthquake that shook Italy.

Europeans Flock to SPS/IPC/Drives Italia

At the end of May an important event for the Italian automation world took place in Parma: SPS/IPC/Drives Italia, the “daughter” of the well-known German SPS/IPC/Drives trade fair, which takes place in Nuremberg.

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China Leads M2M Growth; Europe Not Far Behind

China Mobile became the world’s largest M2M connectivity provider at the end of 2011 with around 14 million subscribers. If the trend continues, the Chinese market will surpass the United States within two to three years.

The new UL Centre of Excellence near Milan will act as European hub for safety and energy efficiency in lighting technologies. Source: UL

New UL Facility Opens Near Milan

Underwriters Laboratories says the facility is dedicated to safety and energy efficiency in lighting technologies.

Spring Renaissance for Italian Divisions of Automation Vendors

In March, with the spring “renaissance” of nature, also came the renaissance of Italian companies and subsidiaries.

Space missions have pushed forward technical innovation and human capacity, even when it comes to packaging, says astronaut Paolo Nespoli, keynote speaker at Ipack-IMA in Milan.

Italians See Packaging Pushing Higher

The main event in Italy for processing, packaging, material handling and package printing took place in the end of February in Milan with the Ipack-IMA trade fair.

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Application: Europe's Biggest Hyperbaric Chamber

The Italian company Advanced Technology Valve (ATV, www.atvspa.com), one of the four main submarine valves producers in the world, has built the biggest hyperbaric chamber for civil purposes in Europe to test its products. ATV’s products had a fundamental role in stopping the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.

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Italian Machine Markets: 2011 Recap

Packaging machinery and machine tools both showed good growth in 2011, boding well for Italian automation markets in 2012.

Italian Insight: The Automation World Awakens

In October and November the Italian automation market seamed to wake up, challenging the wind of crisis that had not totally disappeared.

From headquarters in France and at events in Germany, Schneider Electric executives reached out to original equipment manufactur

Schneider, Omron Address Machine Builders

In reaction to the new market realities that have emerged in the last three years, Schneider Electric unveiled a new slogan: Innovation for Simplicity. Separately, during a recent technical press gathering, Omron Industrial Automation Business showed its new machine automation platform.

European Technology On Stage

With forecast sales of 60 million Euros for 2011—greater than in the record year of 2008—Rittal (www.rittal.com) told a conference of the technical press as the company celebrated its 50th anniversary that it was very confident for its future.