Lonati Group
HISTORY OF THE LONATI GROUP
Rooted in industrial foundations, the Lonati Group benefits from absolute world leadership in the textile machinery sector. A position conquered thanks to its reliability and efficiency, the best know-how, ongoing innovation and unsurpassed standards of quality of products and services. With an extensive sales network that reaches more than 70 countries, the Lonati Group is a sound point of reference, easily accessible and open to every market, from emerging ones to the European, Asiatic and American markets. Concrete management principles, skilled collaborators, team work and family tradition are the basis and reason for a commercial operating success that has been lasting more than 70 years. Incorporating several independent companies with different characteristics and functions - from industry to agriculture, from real estate to education - the Group expresses a single will and a single way of operating that is summarized by the three words that identify the Lonati style: reliability, efficiency and organization.
HISTORY OF THE FOUNDER
Cavaliere del Lavoro Francesco Lonati, fatherless at the age of 9, started working at the age of 12 and continued working until a few days before his death almost at the age of 91. His indomitable passion for working would soon turn into a professionalism that, with an uncommon determination, would take him far beyond national borders to a more than deserved international success. At 35, in 1946 he founded the company that still bears his name. In 1956, Lonati presented the first “dual-feed” circular machine for the production of women’s stockings and in 1971 a new model of the circular machine for the production of men’s socks. In the 80s, Lonati became the world leader producing 90% of machines for stocking factories. Witness to the economic boom of those years, to which he made his contribution, he said with his typical humbleness and irony: “My generation is the first one in the world that has experienced both starvation and diets”. Work and family, the harmonious development of these values was his biggest success and represented his very reason for living. Today the Lonati family continues this tradition of growth and progress.
COMPANIES
THE COMPANIES IN THE GROUP
The constant commitment in finding new solutions that are more beneficial for everyone and at the same time respecting the environment in which we live is the common denominator of the companies within the Group
MECHANICS
Electronics
AGRO-FOOD
Services
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BRANDS OWNED
NO PROFIT
Growing up together, three words that encapsulate the true essence of the Fondazione Lonati, an institution designed and intended to commemorate those who have believed in this idea throughout their lives. Cav. Francesco Lonati and his wife Adele shared growth and success in the family and in business, finding in cooperation with others and in the traditions of their homeland the reason to believe in seriousness, commitment, work and the search for a better future for everyone. The Fondazione Lonati operates according to this philosophy of solidarity-inspired development, investing both in higher technical education related to textile knowledge, that is its reference sector, and in charitable activities of solidarity and assistance with special attention to children and the elderly.
