Ship a Pallet to Slovakia

Italian exports to Slovakia consist largely of components, machinery and metals bound for the factories. Alongside industry, however, a consumer market is growing that asks for Italian products. The most common cases:

The automotive supply chain, from Bratislava to Košice

Five carmakers and around 370 suppliers make Slovakia one of the densest automotive clusters in Europe. From Italy come mechanical and electronic components, steel and aluminium parts, moulds and tooling for the supplier parks. Some of the recipients are Italian themselves: Brovedani makes precision components in Galanta, Marelli electronics and engine components in Kechnec, Meta System on-board chargers for electric cars in the Trnava area. A pallet of spare parts or samples arrives directly at the plant warehouse.

Italian-owned plants far from the capital

Not everything is concentrated around Bratislava. Immergas makes boilers in Poprad, below the Tatra mountains, and has passed the two million mark. Technogym builds fitness equipment in Malý Krtíš, in the south of the country, in the group's only plant outside Italy. Both receive components, equipment and consumables from head office, recurring shipments of one or two pallets where pickup at the Italian site and delivery straight to the factory cut out intermediate steps.

Wine and food for Bratislava

Italian food and drink exports to Slovakia are worth over 245 million euros a year, and Italian wine accounts for almost a third of the country's wine imports, second only to Hungarian. Importers and distributors in Bratislava receive wine, coffee, pasta, baked goods and confectionery by pallet, with a peak in September, when the Italian Trade Agency (ICE) holds its Food & Wine workshop in the capital for Italian producers and Slovak buyers.

Furniture and design for the Nitra fair

Every spring Nitra hosts Nábytok a bývanie, the furniture and living fair, where Italian manufacturers exhibit too. Furniture, furnishing components and stand material arrive by pallet at the Agrokomplex exhibition grounds, and throughout the year the country's furniture retailers stock up from Italy's furniture districts.

Metals and semi-finished products for heavy industry

Steel, aluminium and copper are among the top items in Italian exports to Slovakia. Semi-finished products, profiles and metal components leave the industrial districts of Lombardy, Veneto and Brescia for the workshops of Žilina, Trnava and Košice, home to the city's large steelworks.