Leonardo’s 75th anniversary: typical thread of technological evolution

Seventy-5 years of history of the Italian aerospace, defence and safety market, and of its markets, technologies and individuals. Seventy-5 years of financial, social and cultural improvement in our nation and the communities served. Due to the fact the history of Leonardo, established on 18 March 1948 below the name Finmeccanica, is the typical thread operating by way of the evolution of Italy’s manufacturing market given that the finish of the Second Planet War. An original essential to interpretation of these 3 quarters of a century of history is supplied in the volume “Leonardo. Motore industriale e frontiera tecnologica dell’Italia”, (“Leonardo: Italy’s industrial engine and technological frontier”), written by Il Sole 24 Ore correspondent Paolo Bricco and published by il Mulino.

As Bricco states in the new book, “Leonardo is an expression of its age, of the age of globalisation and hypertechnological capitalism, as effectively as of the age of Italy, generating an critical contribution to the physiology of the country’s market”. 5 essential moments from the company’s 75-year history all share the similar continual: the presence of strategic technologies for the industrial improvement of Italy and its companion nations. The initially moment, in 1948, coincided with the country’s beginnings in the thermoelectric and mechanical market and in shipbuilding, driven by Italy’s Institute for Industrial Reconstruction (IRI) and major the way in the country’s post-war reconstruction.

The launch of the transatlantic liner REX. Ansaldo Shipyards, Genoa, 1931

Then, among the sixties and the eighties, came a concentrate on the aerospace market and the emerging electronics market on the 1 hand, and on the other, on the mass market place for automobiles following the separation of the shipbuilding market. The late nineties and the early years of the new millennium saw the consolidation of the Aerospace, Defence and Safety industries in Italy, marked soon after the year 2005 by international expansion, in the United Kingdom, the United States and Poland. Due to the fact the finish of 2013, this has been followed by rationalisation of assets and reorganisation into One particular Corporation to meet the specifications of competitiveness and investment capacity – critical components for concentrating on revolutionary lines of organization and technological cycles.