Assago, 13th May 2003

FIRST COURSE IN THE “ADVANCED WOODWORKING TRAINING CENTER” IN BANGALORE, A JOINT PROJECT OF IWST, ACIMALL AND ICE

17 students “opened up” the “Advanced woodworking training center” in Bangalore, Karnataka State, India. On the 30th of last April, the center officially started the first course on woodworking technology organized by the training center, created in the premises of the local Institute of wood science and technology and representing the result of a joint project among the already mentioned Indian Institute, Acimall and Ice, the Italian Foreign Trade Institute. The scheduled courses, held at the Iwst in Bangalore, are organized in three different “modules”, each lasting two working weeks. The first module is dedicated to “woodworking basics“, the second one to “basic mechanical machining”, while the third one focuses on “advanced mechanical machining”.
Each course is attended by some twenty people on average and total annual participation is estimated around 700 people, who will be able to benefit from this opportunity every year.
Machines and materials for this particular initiative promoting the “made in Italy” woodworking philosophy were offered by 26 Italian companies, who equipped an efficient traditional joiner’s shop able to process both solid wood and panels. Here are the companies in alphabetical order: Acm, Alfamacchine, Bma, Balducci, Coral, Fantoni, Fimac, Framar, F.lli Bini, Freud Pozzo, Gamma Zinken, Grifo, Lazzari, Leitz Italia, Maggi Engineering, Metal World, Omga, Ormamacchine, Paoloni macchine, Pizzi, Sicar, Utensilegno, Utensili Spl, Vitap, Veba Meccanica.

“I must say – said Giancarlo Anselmi, Acimall Vicepresident – that the board of directors of our association had decided to revise the promotion methods we had used for several years, therefore we wanted to create a sort of worldwide network, a series of centers located in those countries where traditional promotion had proved to be inadequate to achieve tangible results.
However, I would also like to add – explained Anselmi – that this first deployment will surely give positive results for Italian machinery, without considering the undoubtedly noble social value. The aim is certainly to promote the penetration of Italian machines, but we do not have to forget that our promotion in India is combined with a process aimed at giving more development chances, creating a clean and safe working environment, providing a concrete possibility of professional and economic growth and, therefore, an improvement in the living quality of a significant number of families.”

For more information :
Luca Rossetti
phone +39 02 89210200 – rossetti@acimall.com