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Article: Ready, set, gone!(includes related article on machine tool industry)
- Article from:
- Modern Machine Shop
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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Italy exports 60 percent of its machine tool production. Theirs is a formula for success based on supplier cooperation, pragmatic decentralization and engineered solutions. Here are examples of some key players in the fourth largest machine tool producing motion.
It was a pretty rosy picture at the Italian Machine Tool Show (BiMU) held last fall in Milan. Like IMTS that preceded it, the Italian international show broke records for attendance and exhibitor participation.
Business is good for the Italians especially in the international marketplace. Growth is coming from exports, chiefly to a revitalized Europe and to the U.S.A. While the Italian machine ...