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Monzesi celebrates 25 years of American branchERT

Monza Corporation, the American branch of Italian grinding machines constructor Monzesi, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. The company is active in the American market since the mid ’80s, through a collaboration with a local distributor, but the history of Monza Corporation officially begins in 1992, born in an incubator for Italian companies in the USA called ITA. In the American market, the branch currently boasts an installed fleet of 600 grinding machines from the Viotto and Monza ranges. Monza Corporation today has ten employees, and boasts its own mechanics department able to provide sales and after-sales services as well as to handle maintenance operations and retrofitting for the grinding machines installed in America, and produced in Italy.

“The USA market represents roughly 30% or our revenue – says Riccardo Pessina, Monzesi general manager – and the numbers keep growing, both in terms of revenue and of the number of systems installed. We work with the biggest aerospace, automotive, machine tool and oil industries in the entire NAFTA area, which includes Canada, Mexico and the United States”.

Two years ago, the American branch moved its activities into a new facility in New Jersey, three times the size of the previous one, and has its own warehouse and production department. Main future goals for the company are indeed to acquire the necessary mechanical know-how to produce entirely on site some of the Monzesi machines, and to expand its activities boosting the business in the Mexican market, which will be managed by the New Jersey branch together with the Canadian branch.