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IMPORTANT PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN ASSOMAC AND UITIC The synergy between the two associations will manifest itself in a seminar during September’s Simac Tanning Tech and during the organisation of the UITIC International Footwear Technology Congress in 2023.
An important partnership between Assomac and UITIC was announced at the end of June in Milan at the Assolombarda headquarters in front of numerous industry professionals. UITIC and ASSOMAC at Simac Tanning Tech The first step of this partnership will be the presence and joint participation at the Simac Tanning Tech exhibition to be held from 20 to 22 September 2022 at Fiera Milano Rho. “If the international scenario has forced us to review the very essence of the events, Simac Tanning Tech was not caught unprepared and has rethought its organisational and offer model in an increasingly strategic key, transforming itself into an international networking hub whose highlights are fundamental for the reference sector and its protagonists,” said Maria Vittoria Brustia, President of Assomac Servizi, while outlining the innovations planned for the next edition of the exhibition. From the debut of the information platform (news.simactanningtech.com) to the rich panel of workshops and talks hosted in the exhibition halls, as well as the increasingly numerous apps that will allow visitors to better organise their visit to the exhibition and the renewed collaboration with ambassadors and journalists. And let’s not forget the prestigious partnerships – such as that with the ICE Agency, which, as usual, will allow the arrival of trade delegations from all over the world, and with SPS Italia, presented in the technological corner dedicated to new Industry 4.0 enabling technologies – that have con8 ARSTANNERY
tributed to the exponential growth of Simac Tanning Tech. Everything is based on two common denominators: relationships, which are essential for making the fair a community, and collaboration among all stakeholders to make Simac Tanning Tech the technological platform for the fashion system. “The partnership with UITIC was a natural landing place that, in September’s appointment, will find its first expression and, above all, the right stage to promote the goal that unites us: to spread and create an open and shared system so that we can all improve and grow with a healthy competitive and collaborative spirit,” concluded Maria Vittoria Brustia. The 2023 World Congress of Footwear Technology Assomac and UITIC will also collaborate on the 21st International Footwear Congress to be held in 2023 in Milan and Vigevano. Yves Morin, President of UITIC International Union of Shoe Industry Technicians, illustrated the added value of the synergy: “UITIC and its associates are delighted to join a prestigious Italian partner like ASSOMAC in organising the 21st International Footwear Congress. Italy is considered an undisputed world leader in terms of innovation and technology with regard to the leather and footwear industry. We could not have wished for a better location to mark the restart of our congresses. All our efforts are being put into the organisation of this 21st congress, which will also coincide with the celebration of UITIC’s
