Lonati Group
HISTORY OF THE LONATI GROUP
Rooted in industrial foundations, LONATI GROUP benefits from absolute world leadership in the textile machinery sector, a position supported by reliability and efficiency, the best know-how, ongoing innovation and unsurpassed standards of quality for products and services. With an extensive sales network that reaches more than 70 countries, Lonati Group is a true point of reference, accessible and open to every market, from emerging to European, Asiatic and American. Concrete management principles, skilled labor, team work and family tradition are the basis and reason for a commercial operating success that has lasted more than 60 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 Lonati style: reliability, efficiency and organization.
HISTORY OF THE FOUNDER
The Commendatore del Lavoro Francesco Lonati, born in Botticino on 28 February 1911, orphaned at the age of 9, started working at the age of 12 and by helping himself step by step he also helped many other people. Like other businessmen in his area, he made his professionalism a true passion, a way of exploiting all of his intellectual skill and will. At 35, he founded the company that still bears his name. In 1956, Lonati company presented to the world the first ‘dual-feed’ machine for the production of women’s stockings and in 1971 a new model of the double-cylinder circular machine for the production of men’s socks. In the 80s Lonati became world leader producing 90% of machines for stocking factories. As Francesco Lonati said with typical humbleness and irony: “My generation is the only one in the world that has experienced both starvation and diets”. Work and family - the two great values that develop in harmony - created his biggest success and represented his very reason for living. Today the family Lonati 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
Real Estate
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.
