Duna-USA adding space, foaming line in Texas
Duna-USA Inc. is expanding its Baytown, Texas, plant to handle growth in the insulation, tooling, aerospace, automotive and sign markets. The maker of rigid polyurethane tooling and modeling boards and epoxy-based sealers and adhesives is adding 21,000 square feet for a third manufacturing building and an office structure on the 5.5-acre site...
Italian Summer Fest scheduled in Peoria
The Italian American Society of Peoria will hold its 83rd Annual Italian Summer Festa on Sunday August 12, from 12:00 noon to 7:00pm at Hickory Grove Park inNorth Peoria. (Hickory Grove Road off Knoxville Ave, follow signs). The Summer Festa Picnic is a long-standing family event held by the Society every year since its founding in 1929 as a time...
Don't miss this incredible concert: "Christmas in Italy" with internationally acclaimed Cristina Fontanelli.
A vocal journey through Italy's best-loved songs and arias by composers such as Donizetti, Tosti, and Puccini, plus favorites like "Torna A Surriento," "Ave Maria," and other Christmas classics. Now playing for nine Christmas seasons in New York, the magic of "Christmas in Italy" comes to the West Coast for the second time in 2012. Ms. Fontanelli...
Italy Invests in US: Italy’s M&G Group To Construct its PET/PTA plants in Corpus Christi (TX)
Italy's M&G Group (M&G) recently announced that it has signed a US$ 1 billion engineering, procurement and construction contract ("EPC Contract") with Sinopec Engineering Group (SEG) for the turnkey construction in Corpus Christi, Texas of its PET/PTA plants. Together, they will be merging the world's largest single line PET plant, with a 2...
Telling Vermont’s Italian story
When Mari Tomasi died of cancer in 1965, she still lived in the house where she was born at 63 Barre St. in Montpelier. The street is significant for a couple of reasons. First, it is named for the town she immortalized in much of her written work, and Montpelier's other great novelist, D.P. Thompson, in the 19th century also made his home on Barr...
Club plans chocolate celebration
The Italian American Club of Maui will be hosting a chocolate celebration from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 14 at Ulupalakua Ranch. The $15 admission includes a winery tour, wine tasting, beverages and chocolate desserts. (Participants are asked to bring a favorite chocolate delight to share.) The event will begin with a no-host lunch...
Sbarcare a New York? Se lavori sul brand si può. Intervista a Francesco de Biase
Portare l'Italia dentro a New York nelle più spettacolari ambientazioni per farsi conoscere nella più favolosa città del mondo non è più solo un sogno oggi per le PMI italiane, per gli stilisti e per gli artigiani. Grazie al fatto che quest'anno è l'anno della cultura italiana negli States Francesco de Biase ha creato un modello che permette a tutt...
Property Desk si presenta alla Italy-America Chamber of Commerce
Pubblichiamo di seguito l'articolo di presentazione delle nostre attività di consulenza, apparso nell'ultima Newsletter della Italy-America Chamber of Commerce, in cui si ripercorre il complesso quadro delle problematiche, spesso sottovatutate, associate agli investimenti immobiliari all'estero.
Italian American Writers Association Literary Reading
Since 1991, IAWA has given voice to writers through its Open Reading series every second Saturday of the month at the Cornelia Street Café. IAWA East is now held alternate months at Sidewalk Café, (August, October and December) and readings continue at Cornelia Street Café on odd months (September.) WHEN: June 8, Saturday, 5:30-7:30 pmWHERE: Sidew...
I rapporti tra Italia e USA nell’economia globale
"Italy - US Relations in a Global Economy" è il tema della conferenza in programma il prossimo 11 giugno all'American University of Rome (AUR) che la promuove con la Niaf. I lavori inizieranno alle 15.00 nell'Auriana Auditorium dell'ateneo con l'intervento di saluto del Presidente Niaf Joseph V. Del Raso e della deputata di Scelta Civica elett...
Great News: Lower Manhattan restaurants are well represented in the Italian Dine-Out!
Even greater news: You can get the deal of a lifetime at a number of the city's top Italian restaurants in downtown Manhattan neighborhoods such as East village, Noho, Tribeca and Financial District starting tomorrow, June 26th when the first ever Italian Dine-Out kicks off! We're talking delectable, authentic Italian food for incredible prices thr...
Italy's first electric motorbike makes 3D debut in NY
It sounds like a daydream - a sleek, powerful, state-of-the-art motorcycle with Formula 1 technology that plugs into the wall. But the battery is not the most surprising aspect of Italy's first electric street motorcycle - the Energica - poised to enter dealerships in 2015. Much of the body of the first working model was sculpted by a 3D-printing m...