Parma & its enterprises

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

• General Mechanics D uring the period immediately following Italian unification (1861), Parma had 19 workshops and machine shops processing copper, pig iron and cast iron with a yearly capacity of thousands of pieces. With time and making the most of technological evolutions, mechanics companies in the province of Parma multiplied in number and in specialized processing techniques. This sector is involved in a wide range of processing and treatments (including second casting, lathing, shearing, molding, zinc and chrome finishing and galvanic technology, drawing, grinding, carpentry, welding, etc.) as well as the production of mechanical and electronic components, tools, metal furniture, vans, measurement and flow instruments, mechanical and electrical machines and motors, transmission devices, elements and

gears for automations, energy distribution boards, steel and metallic building elements, electrical and optical equipment, heat- and cold-related technologies and materials and street and industrial cleaning equipment. Within this sector are present two corporate nuclei of prime importance. One, which has undergone significant growth in recent years, produces mechanical pumps and blowers and the other designs, manufactures and installs elevators and service lifts . Both of these realities can rely on a significant international activity. Steelworking, as well as the building and repairing of plants , is also developed.

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