Chinese leader Xi Jinping visited Hong Kong on Friday 1st July to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the city’s return to China. Indeed, in 1997 the city, until then under British control, was handed back to Chinese supervision, not without massive protests and social riots that continue even today. In addition, the US preferential relationship […]
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Digital is the pinnacle of the automation industry, and it generates wealth wherever it is applied. According to the Global Machinery Equipment report, the industry’s worldwide turnover will be increasingly driven by digital tools such as Analytics, apps and other digital industrial 4.0 solutions. Therefore, all companies operating in the automation industry are gradually diversifying
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Italian companies, especially SMEs, reached an important achievement during last year, recording +50% exports to America. It has even more value given this recent geopolitical situation we are facing. The ones who are directly involved in the export field report that Italian goods have more than favourable reception. The US is a market that has
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In Italy, the pharmaceutical chemicals sector is worth 228 billion euro. It is the third in Europe after France and Germany and the tenth worldwide. The companies involved are more than 3,000 and employ almost 300,000 people, driving the creation of additional jobs. In fact, we often do not realise how essential specialised chemistry is
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How influential is a country like China in the photovoltaic market? The answer is simple: a lot. The “country of the dragon” certainly holds sway in the production of panel components and in their assembly. In fact, despite the pandemic effects, according to Eurostat, in 2020 3 out of 4 solar panels entering the EU’s
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Italian wines and sparkling wines’ export has always been a happy island. The average annual growth rate has been 5.2% over the last twenty years. And it has not stopped even with the pandemic. On the contrary, according to the UIV, it was precisely thanks to the lockdown that the world appreciated even more our
The world likes prosecco and Italian wines, but their export is oligarchic. Leggi tutto »
Dal 7 al 12 giugno si è tenuta la sessantesima edizione del salone del mobile alla fiera di Rho/Milano. Dopo l’edizione boom del 2019, che contò più di 400 mila visitatori e lo stop obbligato (se non per un’edizione ridotta del Supersalone nel 2021) imposto dalla pandemia per due anni, l’edizione 2022 non ha disatteso
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A few weeks ago, some Asian countries took a significant decision: they will no longer export some raw materials outside their borders, locking themselves in a kind of archaic autarky. This is how the supply crisis resulting from the Ukrainian conflict has brought Maslow’s pyramid back. Each state, overriding the treaties it has signed up
Knowing the target markets in detail and adopting product localisation strategies is essential when a business wants to sell in a foreign country with laws and cultures different from its own. This is more important when a business wants to build a stable position in the target country (localisation) and even more so when it
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Despite having suffered an abrupt setback due to the pandemic situation, in 2021 the Italian automation market exceeded 6 billion mark, growing by 21% compared to the catastrophic 2020 and 8% compared to 2019. In particular, manufacturing recorded the biggest gains, benefiting from its strong domestic demand. This growth was due to the excellent performance
