Mattei History

Articles and news from the world of compressed air

    14 March 2019

    THE INTUITION OF A PIONEERING ENTREPRENEUR

    In 1919, after the Great War, when faced with the choice of accepting a job as a Civil Engineer in Sondrio, or embarking on an entrepreneurial adventure, the young engineer Enea Mattei had no doubts about choosing the second path. And from there began the centennial story of Mattei, the company that has made history in the compressed air industry with its exclusive rotary vane technology.

    11 March 2019

    GIULIO CONTALDI, THE MAN WHO BELIEVED IN A DREAM

    From the heartfelt story of Carla Luisa Lucca Contaldi, a picture emerges of her husband, Giulio Contaldi, who in the 1960s took over the lead of the company created by Ing. Enea Mattei. As tribute to the man who firmly believed in this industrial company, he recognised the potential of rotary vane technology and started the international expansion, which leaves his children, Giulio and Silvia, with a leading global group in the compressed air market.

    4 March 2019

    SOLID FOUNDATIONS FOR AN EVEN GREENER FUTURE

    Angelo Capra and Eugenio Cereda are the historical memory of Mattei: from their stories of the evolution of the machines that have made the company’s history, to those of the “glorious past” we can see what has allowed Mattei to become the international group of today that exports compressors all over the world.

    14 December 2015

    ING. ENEA MATTEI SPA INCORPORATES MTA

    As of November 1st, Ing. Enea Mattei has now incorporated its own in-house replacement parts sales service and repair workshop formerly managed by MTA S.p.A., an enterprise located in Verdello in the province of Bergamo, which was already part of the Mattei Group.

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