Seventy-five years of historical past of the Italian aerospace, defence and safety business, and of its markets, applied sciences and other people. Seventy-five years of financial, social and cultural improvement in our nation and the communities served. As a result of the historical past of Leonardo, established on 18 March 1948 beneath the title Finmeccanica, is the widespread thread operating via the evolution of Italy’s manufacturing business for the reason that finish of the Second World Warfare. An unique key to interpretation of those three quarters of a century of historical past is obtainable within the quantity “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 printed by il Mulino.

As Bricco states within the new guide, “Leonardo is an expression of its age, of the age of globalisation and hypertechnological capitalism, in addition to of the age of Italy, making an important contribution to the physiology of the nation’s business”. 5 key moments from the corporate’s 75-year historical past all share the identical fixed: the presence of strategic applied sciences for the commercial improvement of Italy and its associate nations. The primary second, in 1948, coincided with the nation’s beginnings within the thermoelectric and mechanical business and in shipbuilding, pushed by Italy’s Institute for Industrial Reconstruction (IRI) and main the best way within the nation’s post-war reconstruction.

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

Then, between the sixties and the eighties, got here a give attention to the aerospace business and the rising electronics business on the one hand, and on the opposite, on the mass marketplace for cars following the separation of the shipbuilding business. The late nineties and the early years of the brand new millennium noticed the consolidation of the Aerospace, Defence and Safety industries in Italy, marked after the 12 months 2005 by worldwide growth, in the UK, the US and Poland. For the reason that finish of 2013, this has been adopted by rationalisation of property and reorganisation into One Firm to satisfy the necessities of competitiveness and funding capability – important components for concentrating on revolutionary strains of enterprise and technological cycles.