The year 2016 starts with a bang: Ecor Research turns 40! This year we are celebrating the company’s long history, which started back in a different time when the world was travelling at different speeds.
It started in 1976 when personal computers, cell phones or smartphones weren’t widespread. Back then, the telephone and fax were used to communicate. The mail, electronic mail, digital and virtual world had not entered into everyday life yet.
Technical designers did not use 2D or 3D computer-aided design software. All they had was the drafting machine.
Everything was so different, almost rudimentary for us today that we look forward to the world of telework, we speak of company welfare and we don’t resist the temptation to check the latest message that we have received on our mobile device. We are always connected, always online.
Like in every story, this one too has a main character. His name is Sergio Lucietto. Back in the Seventies, he was in his early thirties. He decided to make his dream come true, to sow a seed, even going against the mainstream because in large companies you often end up being left alone.
Not even that young entrepreneur could have ever imagined that after selling stainless steel sheets in the flourishing Trentino Alto Adige market he would have ended up working just a few years later in the food packaging industry, the medical device industry, in Oil & Gas and later even in aerospace and defence, industrial research and now electrical switchboards.
That small seed planted 40 years ago is today a tree overflowing with branches made of people, relations, objectives and stories of men and women.
He has built an industrial group with more than 250 employees and 100 million euro in revenue: Ecor Research, EiQ Industrial, Gieminox Tectubi Raccordi, N.P.C. (New Production Concept), Ecor Campus, and POEMA business network. The group is physically present with production plants and research laboratories in the Veneto, Emilia Romagna and Campania regions and is competing internationally with large multinationals. In 40 years it has grown, expanded and diversified, innovating and renewing itself also by learning from its mistakes, always with that innate freshness and farsightedness that are typical of visionaries.
And like in every story, besides the main character, there are his travel companions, key figures who have contributed and contribute with their skills and passion to reaching major goals and to making the history of the group’s companies. Goals cannot be achieved without companions and this is all the more true at this junction in time.
Ideas, courage, inventiveness, initiative, friendship and trust are just some of the key ingredients of this special birthday that we are celebrating together. From the Seventies to today, the company has transformed itself thanks to all those who have been able to look beyond the horizon, beyond immediately tangible perspectives. We are now called to do the same and to aim at celebrating the next 40 years with the awareness of having a precious masterpiece in our hands.
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