Turning Innovation into Productivity Video Series

Introduction (3 min) It’s the twenty-first century. Your customers’ needs come first. Your response is critical:

- Demands for products built to their specifications? Your operation must have flexibility to deliver what customers want.

- Ideas for new products, faster cycle time and greener processes? You need a machine-making partner with creativity to spare. - Solutions to challenges in the manufacturing process? Your operation needs innovation to keep things running at peak efficiency.

Where do you find that combination of flexibility, creativity and innovation? You find them in machines from Italy. Machines Italia.

Watch and listen to how Italian suppliers in various manufacturing sectors of machinery and technology are helping numerous North American companies and their operations gain a competitive edge, and delivery for customers, while boosting their bottom line.

What is creativity? Is it human expression found in art, music and letters? Of course it is. But creativity is so much more. Creativity is the machines maker’s art, evident in Machines from Italy. Across industrial sectors, they are among the most creative and advanced in the world. Put Italian passion and creativity to work for you. Machines Italia. Turning creativity into productivity.

Do you know what innovation is? It’s a change in the thought process for doing something, or the useful application of new inventions or discoveries.

Across a wide variety of industrial machinery manufacturing sectors Italian manufacturers are innovating not only machine technology, but critical thinking too, from applications to relationships.

Competition comes from every corner of the globe. The decisions you make – about products, people and processes – will determine the quality of your offering and your return on investment.

When you have options and your operation is nimble and able to respond to opportunities, you win. Across various industrial sectors, Italian machinery represents the very best in high technology, smart solutions and flexibility.

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For information on the companies cited within this publication or any of our thousands of Italian manufacturers, you may contact them directly, through our partner associations or any of the Machines Italia offices listed here.

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