Our new yet demanding challenge

MOLINI D’ITALIA INTERNATIONAL WAS CREATED TO PROMOTE AN EXCHANGE WITH THE MILLING SECTOR OF OTHER COUNTRIES THROUGH A SHARED LANGUAGE

Over the last few years, Molini d’Italia - the official magazine of Italmopa (the Italian Milling Industry Association) and, since January 2014, also of ANTIM (the National Association of Milling Industry Technicians) -

by Andrea Valente President Italmopa

has offered to its readers some utterly significant news. Founded back in 1950, Molini d’Italia has progressively established itself as a landmark both for the Italian milling industry - the most sizeable in Europe with more than 11 million tons of wheat annually processed - and for those who entertain economic or institutional relations with the milling sector. Promptly adapting to the new publishing needs, the magazine has first developed a digital version that has widened its circulation - by now far-reaching - and then fully embraced the international challenge.

Molini d’Italia International, within this framework, represents a new yet demanding challenge, but also, from the awareness of the need to overcome national borders, the wish to foster an exchange with the milling sector of other countries through a shared language. This widening of perspectives is first and foremost a cultural one for a sector such as the milling one, which is all too often tied to its ancient traditions, but is increasingly required to be active in the international arena. Within this framework, Molini d’Italia International fully represents the special features of the Italian milling sector, which is certainly at the forefront of innovation and has long been committed to seizing challenges and opportunities offered worldwide. My wish therefore, is for this first step towards the magazine’s internationalisation to be successful, conducive to further development of the magazine’s ambitious yet realistic agenda, also supported by its high editorial quality.

Have a good reading!

Andrea Valente