making everyday things
Horween Leathers (Chicago, IL) must use wood tanning drums like these, which come in pieces in order to fit them into their 1905 building.
involving innovative technical textiles applied to the automotive, aerospace and geotextile sectors.”
ACIMIT members make Italy the fourth largest exporting country for textile machinery, preceded by Germany, China and Japan. The Mediterranean country enjoys an 11% market share of all exports, according to figures supplied by the asso- ciation. The United States is Italy’s fifth largest export market for textile machinery.
Italian textile machinery makers exported $147 million worth of their products in 2012 to NAFTA countries, 13% more than the previous year, and more than twice the average growth rate for exports to NAFTA countries from 2008-2012, which was 5.9%. Overall, Italy’s machine manufacturing export market
represents 83% of the $3.3 billion Italian textile machinery sector, which is made up of 300 companies that employ 11,400 workers.
Chocolate market wrapped up Buy chocolate from any of the big three producers in the United States — Hershey’s (
www.hersheys.com), Mars (www.
mars.com) or Nestle (
www.nestle.com) — and you can bet that Carle & Montanari-OPM SpA’s (
www.cm-opm.com) machines were used to make and package it. The same goes for high-end chocolate producers such as Godiva (
www.godiva.com), Lindt (
www.lindt.com) and Ghirardelli (
www.ghirardelli.com). “In chocolate, you could say that our company has the most extensive product line in the world,” says John Hrivnak, director of sales for Carle & Montanari-OPM USA (
www.cm-opm.com). “Our equipment program in chocolate machinery spans the entire pro- cess, from cocoa beans all the way through palletizing out the door.” Hrivnak’s sales “area” is quite large — all of the United States and Canada.
He estimates there are 1,000 Carle & Montanari cocoa processing, chocolate preparation, molding, wrapping and
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