Cepra -Acimall
Acimall is the Italian Woodworking Machinery and Tool Manufacturers Association. Its main mission is to promote the Italian industry abroad. It was established in Milan in 1966 and has about 190 member companies, which represent over 85% of the national personnel and turnover, that is about 10k employees and 1 billion euro, 80% of which comes from exports.
Cepra, the Acimall promotion centre, is the operating arm of the association: it organizes Xylexpo, an international exhibition that is the world’s most important industry fair, held every even-numbered year, and publishes the bimonthly magazines Xylon in Italian and ItalianWoodTech in English. As the representative of such a large portion of the industry, Acimall-Cepra has earned the respect of all the national and international bodies that the woodworking machinery industry has occasion to deal with. It actively participates in the work of Federmacchine, the Italian federation that groups together 11 national associations representing the same number of sectors in the machine tool industry, and Eumabois, the European federation that represents and acts as secretariat for 12 national associations. As a national trade association, it is a member of the CFI (Industrial Tradeshow Committee), Confindustria (Italian Manufacturers Association), and UNI (Italian National Standards Association).

Website: www.acimall.com