Industry and Strategy

CPR System: management of reusable plastic packaging

ASTER is the consortium for innovation set up by Regione Emilia Romagna, by 6 Italian regional universities, by the CNR and ENEA and by the sector associations. It stands as a landmark for favouring company access to innovation, mainly via the coordination of the Hitech Network, a network of public and private research laboratories serving the entrepreneurial fabric. To better clarify purposes and intentions, we met up with Fabio Rangoni, president of ASTER.

The Marchesini Group continues to grow and invest, and also confirms good forecasts for 2013.

IMA closes 2012 with a preliminary strong growth, with consolidated revenues of 734.3 million euros (+9.7%), EBITDA of 101.4 million euros (+9%) and a backlog of orders worth 404.9 million euros (+7.1%)

Editorial by Stefano Lavorini

“There is as much difference between us and ourselves, as there is between us and the others”
Michel de Montaigne, filosofo e scrittore francese, 1533-1592
            
If it is true that there is strength in numbers, what for a small firm might be impossible is not so if one groups together… This is the essence of the matter. This the sense and the objective of the networking contract that opens the way to “a varyingly shaped virtual concern” capable of better responding to a market that is in a state of crisis, dominated by competitors and evermore sizeable and battle hardened customers.

Objective: innovation for competitivity The most important card to exit the crisis will be played in investment in R&D. We focus attention on structures within Italy, particularly in the area of Emilia, that offer companies suitable tools to effectively innovate and also to access funds. Focus on CRIT, IR4I, Aster. by Riccardo Ceredi

B&R are inaugurating the Italian Automation Academy, a structure entirely dedicated to training, and thus they are “writing” a telling story of commitment in favour of a serious approach to automation. The sense and the scope of this undertaking is rounded off by the network of relations and agreements with Academies, Research Centers and obviously, the market. L.G.

An anticipation of the contents that, beyond the technological value of the offer on display from June the 11th to 14th, show the character of the event organized by Ucima at Fiera Rimini.