155 Acimall member companies will present their solutions during the next edition of Ligna, scheduled on 18-22 May 2009 in Hannover. They are part of an extremely competing group which represents a significant percentage of all the Italian exhibitors attending the German biennial event (276). These companies – never like this year – aim to collect encouraging signals during an economic season full of worries. “We have deployed an institutional presence to support Italian organizations, as usual”, said Paolo Zanibon, Director of Acimall. “Ligna is definitely one of the most important events in our industry and, for this reason, we have been always organizing a specific promotional campaign. This year we have rather toned down since we have respected the choice of several companies to reduce exhibition spaces or to miss the German event”.
The reduction of demand for instrumental goods is influencing the industry even if entrepreneurs are waiting – confidently – for the first “smells” (or real market signals) indicating that the “cask” is empty and that the situation can only improve with a trend inversion or with some positive signals from the market. As usual, Italian organizations will exhibit state-of-the-art solutions as to process innovation in several industries: from finishing (a key-topic of our technology) to conventional machines (often “re-designed” to be more and more innovative and performing), from tools (considerably “influencing” the performances of a machine or a plant ) to panel machining – one of the aces-in-the-hole of “made in Italy” technology.
VISIT OF US DELEGATION
The Italian excellence has been recently confirmed by the recent visit of teachers and students from the Georgia Institute of Technology of Atlanta (Usa). The project – developed thanks to the cooperation between Acimall and Ice (Italian Foreign Trade Institute) – allowed Us participants to come to Italy and compare the technology level of Italian production processes with the requirements of Us companies operating in the furniture industry. Two weeks of feverish activities allowing to check the performances of “made in Italy” technologies, from raw wood machining up to product finishing and waste recycling.
