In 1997, ACIMIT set up the ACIMIT Foundation for dealing with a series of research studies in the economic sector and for professional training and relations with schools and Universities in Italy and abroad, in a more functional way.

The research studies published until now are the following:
The textile machinery industry in Italy (April ’97, only in Italian)
The textile machinery industry in the year 2000 (November ’97, only in Italian)
The crisis in the textile sector in Asia as we approach 2000 (November ’98, only in Italian)
The competitiveness of emerging countries in the textile machinery industry (November ’99, only in Italian)
Technical evolution of the Chinese textile machinery industry (February '01, only in Italian)
The textile machinery industry in Italy (December '01, only in Italian)
World textile machinery industry (May '03, only in Italian)
The textile machinery market in China (November '04, only in English)