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From the well-established Trafilerie San Paolo to the acquisition of all the Sommer group’s shares
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- Tramev, specialising in the production of shears and equipment for the wire and cable industry; - Raptor, a software development company established to provide the market with a set of advanced operative solutions; - Eclo, dealing with the recovery of the exhausted sulphuric acid baths of firms that clean metals by chemical pickling. This industrial “world” was celebrated last September, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Trafilerie San Paolo, with a photo exhibition, “Steel – Life”. The photographs displayed were taken by Lucrezia Roda during the various steel processing stages carried out at the different group’s plants (Fig. 1). In 2016, the Roda family has also acquired 100% of the shares of the Sommer group’s
companies, thus becoming their sole owner. Such goal was achieved thanks to the forces fielded by Giuseppe Nazzareno Roda and his seven sons, all involved in the family business, and to the collaboration of their competent teams, capable of putting new ideas into practice. Nowadays, the Sommer group is turning its attention to the international market, thanks to its technical-commercial network in continuous evolution. Its ongoing insourcing process is going hand in hand with constant R&D activities, which have already enabled the group companies to enter some emerging markets and to consolidate their position in Europe. For further information: www.orbita.it, www.tspaolo.it and www.sommer.it
© Lucrezia Roda
ased in Erba (Como, Italy), Trafilerie San Paolo has been producing drawn steel, scalped from one bundle to another and rolled to be cold formed, since 1966. The company celebrated its fiftieth anniversary last year. Inextricably linked to the history of the Roda family and to Orbita, a firm based in Cesana Brianza (Lecco), it has been successfully managed for half a century by the founder of the family, Giuseppe Nazzareno Roda. In fact, Roda has been the head of the company as well as of its group of subsidiaries established over time since their very foundation. The Sommer Group, created in 1992 by the will of Roda himself, who is currently its president, now consists of eight companies. They are engaged in manufacturing different industrial products, but they are united by the work culture, innovative spirit and “manic” pursuit of quality transmitted by the Italian entrepreneur. Besides Trafilerie San Paolo, the group is composed as follows: - Orbita, the company established by Roda in 1962 and now run by his sons Massimo and Andrea, specialising in the production of chains and bearings for overhead conveyors; - Trafilerie Meal, for the transformation of drawn steel in bundles for various applications in the mechanical and steel industry; - Trafilerie Gerosa, for the production of drawn and rolled raw and annealed steel; - Eme - Elettromeccanica Erbese, for the construction, maintenance and servicing of machines and plants for the steel sector, from wire drawing to the subsequent machining operations of bars and rolls in steel and non-ferrous metals;
1 Figure 1: One of the 27 shots of the “Steel – Life” exhibition.
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