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FAIRS
| AN EXCELLENT EDITION OF SALONE DEL MOBILE.MILANO
| Positive and very satisfactory figures were given last Sunday afternoon, right after the official closing of the 58th edition of the Salone del Mobile: The 386,236 attendees, over the 6 days, from 181 different countries made for a 12 percent increase over the 2017 edition, which also featured Euroluce and Workplace3.0. The comparison must be made with 2017, as the Salone focuses on light and workplace and on bathroom and kitchen at alternate years. Inevitably, compared to 2018, attendance decreased: “434,509 visitors in six days ( 26 percent more than last year)”, wrote the official press release in 2018.2,418 exhibitors, 34 percent of them from 43 different foreign countries, were split between the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, the International Furnishing Accessories Exhibition, Euroluce, Workplace3.0 and S.Project, including the 550 designers under 35 who took part in SaloneSatellite...(read more) |
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SCM GROUP
| LINE OF CREDIT FROM EIB
| Scm Group announces that the European Investment Bank (Eib) is providing an unsecured line of credit worth 50 million Euro, lasting 7 years. The line of credit covers 50 percent of R&D investments foreseen by the Italian Group for the four year period 2017-2020, for an overall total of more than 100 million Euro. These investments aim to develop products and services based on technological solutions that are even more effective, flexible and simpler for the end client to use and can guarantee production processes in line with new needs in smart manufacturing and 4.0 Industry to encourage greater sustainability in the use of resources...(read more) | | |
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BARBERAN
| FIRST "JETMASTER" IN CHINA
| Greentec, from Qingdao, province of Shangdong, has bought the first “Jetmaster” digital printing press from Barberàn that will be installed in China. The IT crew that will work with the press have come to Barcelona for a training previous to the shipping of the line. “Jetmaster” printing technology is based on single-pass, which allows to print digital images directly onto multiple surfaces without direct contact with the piece. This enables high speed production for industrial levels....(read more) | | |
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CEFLA
| CONFIRMED SPONSORSHIP WITH DUCATI
| In 2019 the Ducati bikes ridden by Andrea Dovizioso, Danilo Petrucci and test rider Michele Pirro will once again feature the Cefla logo on their fairings. For the second year running, then, Cefla will be taking to the track with the Mission Winnow Ducati team as an Official Partner of Ducati Corse. The sponsorship deal was formally signed during a meeting attended by Gianmaria Balducci, president of Cefla, and Luigi Dall’Igna, general manager of Ducati Corse...(read more) | | |
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RUSSIA
| LOGS AND LUMBER EXPORTS
| In 2018, Russia continued to reduce the exports of logs and increase the exports of lumber. The export volume of these products became almost equal, 19.03 million cubic meters (minus 2.1 percent) and 18.7 million cubic meters (plus 14.9 percent) respectively, according to the report Russian forest based industry in 2018. At the end of 2018, the total production capacity for the Osb panels in Russia reached about 2 million cubic meters. Last year, 1.2 million cubic meters of Osb panels were produced and 1.3 million cubic meters consumed...(read more) | | |
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