The VDMA Country Office Italy is the first point of contact for Italian companies interested in VDMA services. In addition to organizing events and networks, the office in Bologna offers technical expertise for the mechanical engineering sector.
Italy is the second largest mechanical engineering nation in Europe and the fifth largest worldwide. Germany and Italy also have a close trading relationship. The exchange and cooperation between the two countries is an important pillar for the sovereignty of the European economy and the mechanical engineering industry.
Despite bureaucracy and competition, Italy remains an attractive market for machinery. The government is unusually stable and business-friendly and is promoting itself with tax breaks worth billions. But they are not easy to obtain.
At the web event on May 20, 2026, Dr. iur. Alexandra Balmer from the German-Swiss Chamber of Commerce will answer your questions about assembly assignments in Switzerland.
Work assignments in Austria entail numerous reporting and documentation obligations. In the web event, VDMA members will gain practical insights into how they can prepare and carry out assignments.
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With 3500 members, the VDMA is the largest network organization and an important voice for the machinery and equipment manufacturing industry in Germany and Europe.
In the EU, machines, machine parts, components and systems were manufactured for an estimated EUR 908 billion in 2023.
With around 3 million employees mechanical and plant engineering is the largest employer among the capital goods industries in the EU.
The VDMA is becoming increasingly attractive for companies in other European countries. We are consistently pursuing this path, because our future as an industrial SME is Europe!
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Do you have individual questions or need professional advice? Our experts will be happy to advise you in person, by telephone or at your premises.
With cost-free listings in our online directories, you can present yourself to potential customers.
By participating in research activities and utilizing the results, we offer your company access to the best minds in science. What is more, we help you to recognize relevant mechanical engineering trends and disruptions at an early stage to make them useful for your business.
We provide you with survey results and benchmarks from various business areas that will help you evaluating and classifying your company’s performance, amongst other things.
Access to an extensive statistics data base, forecasts, country reports and much more will help you manage your business activities.
Take advantage of the many opportunities at VDMA for networking and collaboration along the entire industrial value chain and mechanical engineering topics - in person or online.
With our VDMA newsletters we inform you by email about current trends, news, and events from the VDMA and the world of mechanical engineering – you decide which newsletters you need.
We represent the issues of mechanical engineering in Germany and Europe on your behalf. Our technical expertise, our knowledge of the industry, and our straightforward positioning makes us a recognized and valued contact for companies, as well as for the public, science, administration, and politics.
The VDMA offers you a comprehensive range of further education and training courses relevant to mechanical engineering: Conferences, courses, seminars as well as digital learning.
Stay on top of technical legislation with our support. In addition, the VDMA promotes the competitiveness of the mechanical engineering industry through its participation in the DIN Standards Committee for Mechanical Engineering (NAM).
With our publications, we impart knowledge and provide insights into the latest developments in our industry and in our association.
The VDMA magazine is aimed exclusively at VDMA member companies and gives them unusual insights into the mechanical engineering industry. What challenges is it dealing with? What projects is it working on? And how does it envision the future? To find out, we talk to our members and visit them on site. In doing so, we don't shy away from presenting controversial viewpoints that reflect the diversity and vibrancy of mechanical engineering.
We offer various networking events, including high-level congresses and target-group specific experience exchanges on expert level. In addition, VDMA connects you with your customers during numerous trade fairs and exhibition activities; in Germany and all over the world.
3,500 primarily medium-sized member companies in the capital goods industry make the VDMA the largest industrial association in Europe and the most important network organization in the industry.
Strong representation of interests
The VDMA is the most important voice of the machinery and equipment manufacturing industry. It represents the common economic, technical and scientific interests of the industry in Germany and around the world.
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More than 500 VDMA employees worldwide support you with practical services to make the right decisions in your company - along the entire value chain.
