ACIMIT Foundation awards for Italian textile technology students

During an award ceremony at the head offices of the ACIMIT Foundation, ACIMIT Past President Mr. Angelo Vanali and ACIMIT Director, Mr. Federico Pellegata, handed over 9 grants with a value of €800 each to a total of 24 students from 5 Italian colleges of textile technology (Bergamo, Biella, Como, Prato and Varese), winners of the annual ACIMIT Foundation Awards for research into issues of relevance to the textile machinery industry (spinning, knitting and finishing).
A further 5 research studies presented by another 6 students, were given a special "mention" due to the hard and important work carried out by these students. The Award Committee, therefore, deci-ded to hand over a "half-prize" (€400) to the students behind these research studies.
Teachers from the various colleges involved were also present at the ceremony to hand over the awards. ACIMIT's work with colleges and teaching institutes is not limited to grants but includes the preparation and distribution to students and teachers of a series of publications covering Italian textile manufacturing technology.
ACIMIT Foundation has just put the finishing touches to 5 "Text Books". These Text Books are specifically prepared for colleges of textile technology, describing the most common technology used in the spinning (wool and cotton), chemical fibre, weaving, knitting and finishing sectors.
To ensure that these books match teaching needs as closely as possible, their preparation has been entrusted to a broad-based group of teachers from colleges of textile technology. This editorial group has performed its task with great enthusiasm.
The success of the initiative has been so big (more than 15,000 copies have already been printed) that the Textbooks have also been translated into English, in order to distribute them, in CD-Rom, to the most important foreign textile institutes and universities, and into Chinese, so that they can also be distributed throughout a textile country as important as China.

Italian Students at the Award Ceremony