THE FOUNDATION

It is our historical year, when all began.
The two brothers Virgilio, Evangelista and their sister Chiara founded the Company “Ziliani Virgilio and Brothers” as a fishing-net factory.

With the death of Evangelista Ziliani, the Company was taken over by his son Gian Battista.

FROM HANDCRAFT TO INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY

It is an important year for our company. Gian Battista’s, sons Italo and Mario, started the construction of a new factory in Sulzano (Brescia) under the name of: “Retificio Evangelista Ziliani”.

Ziliani Mario retired from the Company and replaced by Italo Ziliani and his wife Maria Maddalena Cavalieri.

THE FIRST TWISTING MACHINES WERE INTRODUCED

The process of fishing-nets previously made from cotton thread, from now on had to be manufactured with Polyamide Multifilament.

Evangelista Ziliani entered the company, together with his father Italo and his mother Maria Maddalena Cavalieri.

A new building was built near the old “Retificio Ziliani” and the company name became
MA.RE.CO (MA=Manifattura as manufacturing; RE=Reti as nets; CO=Corde as ropes)

Gian Battista Ziliani entered the company together with his brother Evangelista and his mother Maria Maddalena Cavalieri.

The companies “Retificio Ziliani” and MA.RE.CO moved in another village, from Sulzano to Iseo, to a new plant, on an area 20 times bigger
Company name changed to MA.RE. (Manifattura as manufacturing; RE=Reti as nets)

POLYESTER MULTIFILAMENT

New Product: Polyester Multifilament For Sewing Yarns

NO MORE ROPES WERE MADE

THE FIRST EXTRUSION MACHINE WAS INSTALLED

We began to produce Polyamide and Polyester Monofilaments for various industrial applications.

MA.RE. entered the world of PMC (Paper Machine Clothing)

This is the third important step of our changes, with the production of Monofilaments for felts for paper mills.

POLYAMIDE TWISTED

Polyamide twisted monofilament added to our range of products.

Italo ZILIANI, son of Evangelista, started working together with his father in the Sales Department.
We developed new products for:
– Automotive – Tannery Felts – Fiber cement – Transport Belts.

Mario ZILIANI, son of Gian Battista, started working together with his father in the Technical Department.
We developed new products for: Filtration and other Special Applications.

MA.RE. had #6 EXTRUSION LINES

We kept on investing in new projects and laboratory equipment. The number of employees was increased in the production, technical and R&D departments.

Our MONOFILAMENT TWISTING PRODUCTION was ENLARGED

A revamping campaign on all twisting machine was carried on, new engines with low energy consumption inverters were used, to work with increased capacity to satisfy growing requests for PMC press twisted mono in warp and weft.

Extrusion line #10 and enlargement of the raw material warehouse

Extrusion line #11 and further grow in the filtration field

Extrusion line #12 and enlargement of the packaging deposit

RECORDS IN PRODUCTION QUANTITIES

These years will always be remembered for the worldwide pandemic of COVID-19 and nonetheless, MA.RE. worked at full capacity and in countertendency in respect of our other competitors, we were able to deliver on time all our customers’ orders.
That was the key to grow in the PMC PRESS and move on to DRYER FELTS.
NEW co-operation in the PMC FORMING FABRICS started, with some important players on this market.

– New Building For Polymer Storing
– New Logistic Center For Incoming Materials
– Rise In The Pmc Press And Dryer And Forming Monofilaments Sold To All The Main
Players On The Market
– Filtration Monofilaments: A Difficult Market But Our R&D Managed To Develop Super
Fine Yarns
– Automotive Monofilaments: Mainly For The Electric Cars And Electric Powered Trains
– ®Standard Pa 6 – Pa 6.6 And Pet Mono Produced Up To 100% Of Recycled Polymer

LOOKING AT THE FUTURE

– CO2 emission reduction and CARBON FOOT PRINT analysis
– ®Recycling our products: recycling our monofilaments to produce new ones.
– ®RecyclinG products our customers: recycling felts and fabrics to make new mono
– ®RecyclinG MONOFILAMENTS: our main goal is the growth of PA 6 – PA 6.6 and PET
recycling mono to PA 6.10 – PA 12 and PET hydrolysis resistant recycled mono
– Installation of solar panels
– Reduction of water consumption in the process
– decarbonization of our means of transportS (forklifts, commercial cars, delivery trucks…)
– DEVELOPMENT of MONO linked to 100% FULL ELECTRIC AUTOMOTIVE
– CONTINUE to GROW our PRODUCTION LINES, focusing on FLEXIBILITY, ONTIME DELIVERIES and AFTERSALE SERVICES