Italian Technology Centre, the new centre for the promotion of the Italian industry of capital goods located in Pune, was inaugurated on 6th March 2013. It was born from a network agreement signed by eleven companies manufacturing machine tools and plastic processing machines.

Promoted by UCIMU-Sistemi Per Produrre and Assocomaplast, reference associations for the two sectors which the network companies belong to, ITC is part of the concrete initiatives established by the Ministry of Economic Development and Federmacchine, the federation of manufacturers of capital goods, included in the vast Machines Italia in India project, conceived in order to support the Italian companies penetrating the Indian market.

Several Italian and Indian representatives of institutions and the business world were present during the ceremony, presided over by Massimo Carboniero, vice president of UCIMU-Sistemi Per Produrre and owner of Omera, one of the companies partner in the project.

BLM (Cant?, CO), Colgar (San Pietro All'Olmo, MI), Giuseppe Giana (Magnago, MI), ISTECH (Vanzago, MI), Losma (Curno, BG), Millutensil (Milano), Omera (Chiuppano, VI), PRODUTECH (San Paolo D'Argon, BG), ROSA (Rescaldina, MI), Streparava (Adro, BS) and TRIA (Cologno Monzese, MI) are the companies that will be able to count on the support of ITC, whose work will be led by a team of local officials in tight coordination with the Italian institutions. Promotion of both the individual brands and the ITC brand, development of new contacts with the institutional world and Indian culture and first after sales service point are the main tasks that the Centre will take care of during its first period of activity.

India is the seventh largest destination of the capital goods for the Italian industry (2011 statistics), a lively market, and this centre seeks to promote numerous concrete initiatives, open to all the companies of the two sectors.