STANDARD & LEGISLATION - UCIF Informs
Finishing Goes Beyond Surfaces (With a Conference) Marcello Zinno UCIF – Italian Surface Treatment Equipment Manufacturers’ Association, Milan, Italy
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urface treatments have made
numerous requests for registration. We
As UCIF President Marco Leva stated, “We hope
great strides in recent decades.
have now formalised the participation of 14
there will be an exchange of opinions and ideas
Continuous research and innovation,
following our guests’ speeches. This conference
diverse topics related to finishing. Many
will be not held for commercial purposes:
of these solutions, have led the treatment
of them will be accompanied by their own
we expect this message to be grasped and
industry to constantly evolve. Automation,
customers, who will illustrate the benefits
to attract new potential UCIF members.” The
environmental sustainability, energy saving,
brought by these innovations to their
conference will be called “Finishing becomes
production efficiency, Industry 4.0, 3D
production.
SMART”, where SMART is the acronym of
printing, and chemical advances are just
That is why the UCIF conference will not
Surface, Manufacturing, Advanced, Research,
some of the aspects that will be explored
only be an important occasion to take stock
and Technology.
on November 6 during the conference
of the technologies available for individual
Participation will be free upon registration
organised by UCIF, the Italian Surface
sub-processes: it will also be an opportunity
and places will be limited. We wish to bring all
Treatment Equipment Manufacturers’
for customers and suppliers to understand
different players of this industry and its satellite
Association, at the Fondazione Cariplo
the trends in the sector and the objectives
activities together, with the aim, in future, to
Congress Centre in Milan.
of applied research, which will hopefully
develop a dynamic supply chain that will enable
After this was announced a few months
provide all participants with useful ideas,
finishing to acquire ever-greater importance in
ago, the UCIF secretariat has received
knowledge, and inspiration.
the industrial production processes.
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companies, which will report on the most
strongly supported by the target markets
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