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Operational Flexibility, High Specialisation, and Technological Investment: The Keys to OMR’s Success Alessia Venturi ipcm
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Specialising in the application of anti-corrosion coating systems for the heavy industry, energy, and construction sectors, OMR maintains a well-established partnership with Tosca, a Milan-based company that designs, manufactures, and installs automatic shot blasting machines. This is how OMR manages to subject its products to an excellent surface pre-treatment cycle and obtain optimal adhesion of its coatings, particularly those obtained by thermal spray.
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most well established Italian applicators of anti-corrosion coatings. It operates in this field since 1974. Angelo Viganò established it to offer coating, maintenance, and reconditioning services to the construction and construction machinery sectors. Later, however, due to a crisis in this field, OMR specialised in the application of anti-corrosion coatings on valves and pipes for the transport of water, gas, oil, fuels, and process fluids. OMR is currently chaired by Giovanna Locatelli and her son Massimo Viganò. Europe, the Middle East, Russia, and the USA are some of the
taly is one of the countries characterised by the most technologies
main markets it serves directly or through its customers in the
and skills in the field of corrosion protection, with its numerous
oil & gas sector, including Eni, Saipem, Tenaris, Technip, Exxon Mobil,
companies specialising in the application of anti-corrosion coatings on
and Gas de France. With a 12,000 m2-wide covered structure on a
a wide variety of products, of which 80% are intended for export. This
28,000 m2-wide area, the firm is fully equipped and organised to
means that most of the parts coated in Italy are intended for major
manage any component, from individual parts to large series.
projects in the global heavy industry, energy, and construction sectors.
“Investment in new technologies is what has allowed OMR to excel
Officina Meccanica Rivoltana (Arzago D’Adda, Bergamo) is one of the
on world markets,” states Giovanna Locatelli. “Our investments have
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