ACIMAC
ACIMAC is the association of Italian suppliers of plant, machinery, equipment, semi-finished products, raw materials and services for the ceramic, heavy clay and refractories industries.
Members include the majority of the sector’s companies of various sizes based throughout Italy, although most operate in the provinces of Modena and Reggio Emilia where the world’s most important ceramic manufacturing cluster is located.
As a member of the Italian Employers’ Federation Confindustria, ACIMAC is an integral part of the Italian industry’s representation system.
It maintains links with a variety of institutions and plays a major role in promoting and guaranteeing the growth of the sector as a whole. Being part of a national and international network helps the association pursue initiatives and develop strategies for the sector.
ACIMAC offers support to its member companies by providing professional services and information, consultancy and assistance on all the major issues concerning the sector.
Since September 2007 the ACIMAC offices have been located in Villa Marchetti in Baggiovara (Modena).
SBS
SBS – Scuola Beni Strumentali (School for Manufacturing Goods Sectors) – is a service company that provides training and consulting services to manufacturing goods producers based on the long-term experience of associations affiliated to the Italian Employers’ Federation Confindustria.
SBS’s key strength lies in the consulting support it offers companies and its use of advanced technologies to organise, share, measure, update and validate expertise and to ensure that training programmes are effective in meeting the real needs of businesses.
The traditional training programmes offered by SBS (face-to-face courses) are backed up by an advanced e-learning platform that allows training activities to be held directly in the workplace.
Many of the courses offered by SBS take a practical approach to the subject matter and use a variety of interactive and multimedia tools (texts, images, video) as well as case histories, simulations and practical lessons.
The main characteristic of the services offered by SBS is that they can be tailored to companies’ specific organisational, management and production requirements so as to provide high-level training, consulting and promotional tools.
The associations currently working with SBS are ACIMAC (Italian Ceramic Machinery and Equipment Manufacturers’ Association), UCIMA (Italian Automatic Packaging Machinery Manufacturers’ Association), ASSOCOMAPLAST (Italian Plastics and Rubber Processing Machinery and Moulds Manufacturers’ Association) and ACIMALL (Italian Woodworking Machinery and Tool Manufacturers’ Association).