Marcegaglia

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Marcegaglia is an Italian family company in the steel transformation and energy. The company is also active in the tourism ( holiday clubs ), and the real estate industry.

• 2.1 The Marcegaglia group today
• 2.2 The Metal - and steel processing
• 2.3 The diversified activities
• 2.4 Court proceedings

History

The origins and development in Italy and worldwide

The history of the Marcegaglia Group begins in 1959, when Steno Marcegaglia († September 10, 2013 ), at that time just under thirty years of age, together with a partner by the company Marcegaglia Caraffini di Gazoldo degli Ippoliti ( Mantova) a small-scale operation takes, the manufactures irrigation pipes and metal rails for roller shutters.

Four years later, in Contino di Volta Mantovana founded the company Ipas, which produces about ten employees drawn bars of flat and round steel. In Gazoldo degli Ippoliti, where about 30 people are already engaged in the production of open section members, however, will begin production of the first tubes of cold-rolled strip steel. As of 1963, the production activities of these small businesses are strengthened and expanded by well terminated and ongoing investments. In 1969 a new mill purchased for the production of cold-rolled strip steel

1974 is building the plant in Gazoldo degli Ippoliti another 250,000 square meters of factory buildings. The production range is diversified and expanded by the addition of pipes from hot rolled strip steel. In 1978, following the acquisition of the company Laminatoi Meridionali in Arzano (Napoli ), the Marcegaglia Group gives its industrial activities through a program for the adoption of an ailing manufacturing companies a new impulse. These establishments are redeveloped and made ​​competitive in the various sectors to which they belong.

In 1982, when the total number of employees has already reached 640, is in Casal Maggiore built the second most important work of the group and equipped with the most technologically advanced systems of " Oto Mills " from Boretto (Reggio Emilia). , This company acquired together with other shareholders in 1979 is in framework of technological innovation of all production of the Marcegaglia group in future play a key role.

1983 three other companies are taken over: The company Lombarda Tubi in Lomagna (Lecco ), the company Saom in Boltiere (Bergamo ) and the company Trisider Tezze (Vicenza ). Total sales of "Made in Marcegaglia " is 1983 now risen to 175 million euros, and there are over 860 employees. The Group will continue personally by Steno Marcegaglia, supported by his wife Palmira Bazzaniu and later. Moreover of the children Antonio and Emma 1984, the structure of the group is transformed thanks to an internal reorganization plan. In the newly formed company Marcegaglia Spa merge the former Metallurgica Marcegaglia, the former Ipas and the former Tubi Acciaio. The company Lombarda Tubi takes over the former Saom while Trisider and Oto Mills retained their corporate autonomy in the area of ​​sales and engineering.

1985 establishes the Marcegaglia Group through the acquisition of three major companies in the Maraldi group their industrial activities continue from: Company Maraldi in Ravenna, company Forlisider in Forlimpopoli ( Forlì) and company Salpa in Cervignano del Friuli (Udine ), all dedicated to the production of pipes for water, gas and methane lines, which are then converted and processed in the new Marcegaglia works in Forlì, Ravenna and Cervignano.

1985, after taking over the company Cct in Santo Stefano Ticino (Milan), also in the field of manufacturing active pipes from hot rolled strip steel company profile Astro in Dusino San Michele ( Asti) is adopted, which was located at that time in the court restructuring process. The management of the resulting from the reconversion companies that control the partnerships the group in industries that do not originate from the iron and steel industry, and the management of a significant equity and bond portfolios perform in 1987 inevitably establishing a new company, the company Fingem spa, it will go to one of the most important financial service providers at national and European level.

Came in 1987, Antonio Marcegaglia in the company. 1988, purchased by Credit Suisse, the island Albarella on the Adriatic coast and expanded into a resort.

Antonio Marcegaglia drives the diversification of the group with the establishment of the bio-industry Mantovane in 1988 through the acquisition of Oskar in Osteria Grande ( Bologna), the Nuova Omec, the Ennepi in Lugo di Romagna ( Ravenna), the Imat in Fontanafredda (Pordenone ) in 1989, the CCT in Gallarate (VA ) and the Elet.Ca in Capalle ( FI) and the establishment of Marcegaglia Impianti in Saronno (VA) in 1989 further expanded. In the same year, shares of the company Fergallo in Motteggiana (MN ), the company SIM in Sant'Atto (TE ) and the company Elletre be purchased in Montebello Vicentino (VI). In 1991, the group acquired the company Resco Tubi in Cusago (Milano) and the company OMF in Fiume Veneto ( PN). In 1994, she acquires the company Brollo Profilati in Desio ( Milan ), which will move out to the former Breda grounds just outside Milan, on a total area of ​​80,000 square meters, which is acquired in 1996. In 1995, following the company ETA euro Tubi Acciaio in Milan and the partnership in the firm Allu 's in Sesto al Reghena (PN).

The new operating and production constellation enables the group also to be represented in the field of Household articles, metal, electrostatic coating of metals and metal components for the household appliance industry. The metallurgical department is however extended to the production of thin stainless steel tubes and cold rolled profiles.

1996, the Euro Energy Group is founded on the development of equipment for the production of energy from renewable sources. In January 1997, the company Nuova Forsidera with their works in Corsico ( Milan) and Albignasego (Padua) is adopted, which are specialized in cold rolling, the conversion and the galvanizing of steel. 1998 following the establishment of boiler expertise in the design and manufacture of industrial and heating boilers.

The development plan of the company in 1999 with the takeover of the company in North Morteo Pozzolo Formigaro (Alessandria), and the company Ponteggi Dalmine in Milan, Graffignana (Lodi ) and Potenza continued.

This is followed by 2001 in the tourism sector to take over the resort Pugnochiuso Apulian promontory of Gargano. In December 2001, according to a booking made within a few years investment of over 500 million euros, the new large factory opened in Ravenna: the second largest Italian industrial complex in the iron and steel industry. 2002 is taken in Taranto on the former site of the company Belleli the second largest production site in southern Italy, according to the in Potenza, in operation.

2003 expanded the range of products for the household appliance industry through the acquisition of the company BVB in San Lorenzo in Campo (Pesaro ) on. 2004 makes the group a significant step in the development of their activity in the tourism industry by 49% by Sviluppo Italia Turismo can together with Banca Intesa and the Ifil Group.

2007 records Antonio Marcegaglia shares in the capital of the real estate company Gabetti Property Solutions and strengthens its plant in Ravenna by a further investment of 300 million euros. He expanded in the energy sector and decreases with the companies controlled by it Arendi the solar power in attack to manufacture photovoltaic elements. In addition, it increases its presence in the tourism industry through the takeover of the management of the resort Forte Village in Santa Margherita di Pula, Sardinia, the most important hotel complex in Italy and Europe. In addition shortly after the holiday club " Le traps " in Stintino in the province of Sassari. In 2007, he is also expanding the work in Boltiere (BG). In 2008 he takes over the hotel grounds Castel Monastero, Castelnuovo Berardenga (SI) and the real estate complex "Ex Arsenale " on La Maddalena (SS).

The internationalization of the Group

1989 starts Antonio Marcegaglia, the internationalization policy of Marcegaglia group.

1989 Marcegaglia Germany Dusseldorf is founded to market the products of the Group in the German market and the markets of the northern European countries. Further, in the UK near London, United Stainless Steel Company, and shortly thereafter the company Marcegaglia UK founded for the production of welded tubes made ​​of heat - and cold-rolled strip; In 1997, Marcegaglia UK in Dudley, West Midlands. 1991, the Group takes over in the United States the company The New Bishop Tube in Philadelphia, and in February 1992 the company Damascus in Greenville, two major manufacturing plants, from which specializing in the production of stainless steel Damascus - Bishop Tube Company has emerged.

In 1993, Marcegaglia active in the field of marketing of pipes and stainless steel products in France and the Benelux countries Belgian group Cotubel and founded the Central Trading Company Bright Steel for the marketing of welded pipes in the UK. It will then begin in 1997 with the production of the same in the area of Birmingham. In the summer of 1998, a large industrial area in Munhall, acquired near Pittsburgh, to give the new Marcegaglia U.S. district, which is also the Damascus - Bishop Tube Company take over. In Bremen, a joint venture with the Arbed group, the first company of Marcegaglia for the production of quality steel is founded in the frame.

2000, this is taken from the Earcanal group from Leioa (Spain). Following the joint venture with Arbed, the Marcegaglia Group 2004 concludes an agreement with the Corus group for ten -year joint management of the investments of their English steel plant in Teesside, which they supply to the purchase price of one million metric tons of slabs per year for the production of coils and sheets secure. In the same year the company Oto Mills do Brasil was founded in San Paolo.

2005 Antonio Marcegaglia continues the expansion of the company Marcegaglia do Brasil and opened in June of the fourth production site in the group abroad to produce in Praszka (Poland ) refrigerator pipes, insulation panels and trapezoidal sheets. A year later comes, 20 kilometers away, the location of Kluczbork for the production of tubes and solid rods added. In Qatar Marcegaglia founded in 2007 the company Marcegaglia Gulf in Doha. The expansion of industrial activities in 2008 with the arrival in China continued where in Yangzhou, 350 km north-east of Shanghai, the first Asian plant is set up for the production of high-precision stainless steel and carbon steel pipes, still creates the Marcegaglia Romania in Cluj, and start it work to establish a new manufacturing facility in Vladimir (Russia).

Areas of activity

The Marcegaglia group today

The Marcegaglia group in Italy and abroad, with 50 subsidiaries and more than 6,500 employees in the metal and steel industry and a range of diversified areas of production operates. The group is under the leadership of the Marcegaglia family, has a turnover of 4.2 billion euros.

The Metal - and steel processing

In its 50 production facilities in Italy and abroad (Europe, USA, South America, Asia), which are all equipped with the most technologically advanced equipment, today about 5 million tons of steel per year are processed per day, nearly 5000 km welded pipes, profiled parts, drawn bars, panels, strips and sheets of stainless steel, carbon steel and aluminum produced in all sizes and thicknesses that are used in the automotive industry, the production of household appliances, heat exchangers, furniture and shelves, in the construction sector and for large infrastructures in the field of steel construction, in the paper industry, food industry, etc.

The diversified activities

The Marcegaglia group is represented by several controlled companies in other, diversified industry sectors and other industries, such as: engineering planning and construction of metal and steel processing units and factories, steel structures and construction of electronic control systems in the energy sector with the planning and construction of power plants to produce energy through the use of biomass, production of photovoltaic technology; in ecology with services for businesses and individuals in terms of safety and environmental protection, in which the metal products in the manufacture of brooms and shovels for cleaning in the home, with the production of cooling coils and capacitors for the household appliance industry sector, in agriculture with the management of agricultural enterprises and livestock, in the tourism and real estate sectors with the management of resorts, hotels and holiday homes ( Forte Village, Pugnochiuso, Albarella and Stintino ).

Court proceedings

In 2008, the company Marcegaglia a comparison with the prosecutor closed by a fine in the amount of 500,000 euros plus 250,000 euros seizure regarding 2003 paid bribes in the amount of 1,158,000 euros to Lorenzo Marzocchi Company EniPower. His controlled corporation, the company Ne / Cct spa, however, a comparison with the prosecution of a money penalty in the amount of 500,000 euro and 5,250,000 euro seizure has closed.