Italian plastics machinery industry positions itself for global growth.

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[TABLES HAVE BEEN OMITTED] Italian manufacturers of plastics processing machinery are producing top-quality equipment. They exhibit a growing confidence that technological parity and expanded marketing will net increased sales penetration in world markets. he Italian plastics processing : machinery industry's last five : years have probably been the : brightest in its history. Sales and: try is a net exporter of plastic goods and processing machinery.

Some challenges are to increase international links, reduce high fixed costs, a