Reggio Emilia, the mechatronics district beyond the Covid-19

Courtesy of the publisher and the author, we are publishing Franco Mosconi's Prologue to the book "Reggio Emilia, the territory of "intelligent mechanics", published by il Mulino, which questions the changes that the pandemic will cause in the Emilian mechatronics district
Peak mechanics: -3% in 2019 and 2020 will be worse

According to Federmeccanica, the association of metalworking industries, the current year, already weighed down by the German slowdown and the crash in the automotive sector, will be heavily penalized by the coronavirus epidemic. Here are all the numbers from the economic survey of a key sector for the country