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"In Italia, dopo l'acquisizione di Avio l'anno, ci sono realta', piu' piccole ma molto interessanti a cui stiamo guardando in questo momento". Cosi' Ferdinando Beccalli-Falco, presidente e a.d. General Electric Europe, a margine dell'evento - promosso dalla Camera di commercio di Torino - per favorire 'un ponte tra le Pmi del territorio piemontese"...

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Foreign investors might be wary of doing business with Italy, given the lacklustre growth and complex politics. But David Olson, a businessman from Michigan in the US, is undeterred, and is determined to help Italian firms spread their wings. This is your first foray into Italy. Why Italy, and why now?   One word: climate. Not the weath...

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by Melissa Anders   Davide Canavesio was looking into Detroit and Chicago as potential locations for a new North American office for his Italian manufacturing firm. That is, until Virg Bernero came along. The Lansing mayor met Canavesio at a business conference in Turin, Italy. "He said, 'You should consider Lansing,'" Canavesio sa...

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Continua la grande tradizione dei moduli pressurizzati "made in Italy", realizzati nello stabilimento torinese di Thales Alenia Space. Dopo l'Mplm, le componenti dei moduli della Stazione Spaziale Internazionale, i cargo europei Atv, adesso tocca ai moduli del cargo spaziale "privato" statunitense Cygnus.   Il 17 settembre, infatti, dalla ba...

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by Serena Perfetto   "Creativity is the way to transform dreams into reality": there is no better quote we could hope to end our conversation with Serena Zanello during the Spring Show at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.   Young, Italian, woman, entrepreneur, Serena moved to California a few years ago, after she complet...

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by Lavinia Pisani   The first time I fell for the work of Francesco Camillo Giorgino, a.k.a. "Millo," was the second I laid my eyes on one of his murals: a red-painted heart, amidst a surrounding black-and-white surface, that was being firmly hugged by a larger-than-life child-like figure.    After seeing Millo's name featured on...

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È italiana la prima bicicletta senza raggi che si ripiega in uno zaino. È realizzata in alluminio e, quando sarà in commercio, entro fine 2015, peserà sotto i dieci chili. L'invenzione è di Gianluca Sada, ingegnere trentunenne che ha realizzato il primo prototipo di bicicletta che passa dalle dimensioni di un comune ombrello a quelle di una normale...

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In Turin, the chocolate is at home. Piedmont chocolatiers got their first license to sell chocolate in 1678, almost 200 years before the first gianduia bar entered the chocolate scene in Turin.   But when "CioccolaTò Festival" takes place, as during the last days, Turin becomes the international temple of chocolate and a very greedy chance t...

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Akron Mayor Don Plusquellic announced Friday morning that Ravizza Packaging, a third-generation, family owned manufacturing company based in Turin, Italy, will open its U.S. headquarters in Akron as part of plans to sell its patented Simplicita Bag Smart throughout America.   Ravizza Packaging, founded in 1982 by Roberto Ravizza and his fath...

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Venaria Reale di Torino (the Royal Palace of Venaria) invites visitors to admire the extensive Este painting collection arriving from the Galleria Estense di Modena and other Italian and European museums. During The Italian Courts: The House of Este, expect works by the likes of Cosmè Tura, Dosso Dossi, Correggio, Titian, Tintoretto, Guercino, Vel...

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