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.
FROM LOCAL TO GLOBAL.
In recent years, the global market has revolutionised possibilities and opportunities; Brescia’s historic capacity for adaptation and renewal has taken up the challenge by bringing in new projects and ideas, raising the quality bar in order to cross national borders and react to the global crisis in record time. New strategies, new technology and new emerging markets; the results and goals achieved give reason to the stubbornness and entrepreneurial courage of this region. Renewing and enhancing the traditional development models of the territory: a simple formula, but always successful and exportable in every field, a look at the world from the point of view of one’s origins.
PROGRESS IS ALWAYS IN THE AIR WITHIN THE LONATI GROUP.
These are the two goals of the Lonati Group. In order to strengthen the world leadership in hosiery machines, companies with a high specialised and quality profile joined the holding company: Dinema, Santoni, Matec and Sangiacomo. The second goal, motivated by the need for financial soundness and operational autonomy, led to major acquisitions from the main drivers of the Brescia economy, first of all the steel sector with Alfa Acciai, followed by other significant investments in the mechanical engineering, real estate, agro-food and research sectors. New development horizons for a success handed down from generation to generation.
