Parma & its enterprises

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

A longside the food industry, the province’s most important industry is that of mechanical engineering. Dominant in this sector is food processing and packaging machinery and equipment which, being decidedly larger than its counterparts in provinces of a similar or even greater size in terms of area and population, has become the most important area for food technology in Italy and one of the most important in Europe . A leading position that the companies which make up this sector have gained thanks to their extreme manufacturing flexibility, marked technological innovativecapability and highly-trained work force. Also very important because of their

organizational and technological skills are the mechanics companies which, in the province of Parma, are involved in a wide array of state- of-the-art processing and treatments, as well as manufacturing of technologically-advanced components and finished products. Since the 1970s, important firms in the automotive sector have been based in Parma and its outskirts.

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