ACIMIT, the Italian Association of Textile Machinery Producers, groups together at present 251 Italian producers of textile machines and accessories, whose production accounts for 85% of the whole production of Italian textile machines, and 19 associated members (consortia, technical institutes, technical magazines, engineering and trading companies, research centres).
The purposes of the Association
The main purpose of the Association (which is a non-profit-making body) is the promotion of the Italian textile machinery industry and the support of its activities, especially abroad, through the most innovative means.
In order to promote in particular the knowledge of the Italian textile machinery worldwide (that is to inform about “who is making what”),ACIMIT can offer any kind of information on the activity of their member companies, thus ensuring to the image of the Italian textile machinery sector the widest diffusion (through exhibitions, publications, technological seminars).
Another important activity of ACIMIT is to inform their member companies about the commercial, financial and technical problems which can be met with on the various markets, thus making their access easier.
The ACIMIT Foundation
Beside these activities, ACIMIT felt the necessity of promoting an additional range of initiatives regarding economical and professional training issues, which however can be better dealt with by a Foundation: this was the reason of constituting the ACIMIT Foundation in 1997.
Among the most significant activities started by the Foundation during the first three years of activity, worth mentioning are the publication of 4 economic researches on the textile machinery sector and a significant activity of professional training in favour of Italian and foreign students (which involved the implementation of technology courses in Italy, the publication of school text-books and the awarding of scholarships).
The ACIMIT service company
With a view to build up an organisation which could be better up to the new requirements of the enterprises and to the provisions newly established for the associations, ACIMIT constituted on January 1 st, 1999 the service company ACIMIT Servizi srl.
The subject-matter of the new company is to provide services for the promotion, organisation and advertising of exhibitions and shows in Italy and abroad, as well as administrative outsourcing services for the companies intending to displace abroad their tasks and activities.
