Gruppo Falck
The Falck Group is an Italian company based in Sesto San Giovanni. It was founded in 1906 and is one of the oldest Italian companies in the steel industry.
history
The company's history goes back to Georges Henri Falck, an Alsatian engineer and steel specialist. In 1833 he was entrusted with the management of the Rubini family's steel factory in Dongo ( Como Province , Lombardy ). In 1906, Falck's grandson Giorgio Enrico Falck founded the Società Anonima Acciaierie & Ferriere Lombarde and relocated production to Sesto San Giovanni , a suburb of Milan . Strategically, the situation was better, since the supply of German coal was guaranteed via a rail link and water could be obtained from a nearby river.
The company flourished in the pre-war period and was one of the first Italian companies to use hydropower turbines to generate electricity in their factories. Thanks to the Marshall Plan, the company recovered quickly after the Second World War and by 1963 already had 16,000 employees. The listed company was Italy's largest steel producer in 1971. The Italian bicycle manufacturers Basso , Dancelli , Legnano and Rabeneick installed Falck tubes (Falck Libellula).
At the beginning of the 1990s the steel market collapsed and Gruppo Falck suffered severely from the structural changes and switched the entire production. Today the successor company produces components for wind turbines, among other things .
Falck Tubi
Falck Tubi was a division of the largest Italian steel manufacturer, Gruppo Falck, an Italian manufacturer of steel tubes for bicycle frame construction and the bicycle division. The company manufactured tube sets for frame construction in the 1970s and 1980s. Besides Columbus Tubi , the Italian market leader, Reynolds , a British, and Tange International , a Japanese manufacturer, Falck was one of the leading manufacturers of steel tubes for racing bike frames. Since Falck applied its decals to the tubes discreetly or not at all, the company was little known as a manufacturer of frame tubes.
literature
- Harold James : Family Capitalism: Wendels, Haniels, Falcks, and the Continental European Model ( English ). Harvard University Press , June 30, 2009, ISBN 978-0-674-03909-4 .
- Valerio Varini: L'opera condivisa, la città delle fabbriche: Sesto San Giovanni 1903–1952: l'industria ( Italian ) (= Geostoria del territorio), volume 7. FrancoAngeli , 2006, ISBN 88-464-7977-7 .
- Alberto Falck: 1906-2006: cento anni Falck ( Italian ). Falck, Milan 2006.
- Harold James, traduzione di Michele D'Alessandro: Francesco Brioschi Editore (ed.): Capitalismo familiare. Falck, Haniel, Wendel e il modello d'impresa nell'Europa continentale ( Italian ) 2006, ISBN 978-88-95399-05-8 .
- Istituto milanese per la storia dell'età contemporanea della Resistenza e del movimento operaio: Franco Angeli (Ed.): Annali 5 ( Italian ) 2000, ISBN 978-88-464-2228-6 .
- Sabrina Greco: CLUP (ed.): Costruzione e trasformazione del paesaggio: la città industriale di Sesto San Giovanni ( Italian ) 2002, ISBN 88-7090-508-X .
- Valerio Varini: FrancoAngeli (ed.): L'opera condivisa, la città delle fabbriche: Sesto San Giovanni 1903–1952 - L'industria ( Italian ), Volume 7 2006, ISBN 88-464-7977-7 : “Geostoria del territorio "
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Coordinates: 45 ° 32 ′ 38.8 " N , 9 ° 14 ′ 52.8" E