Tecnomasio
Italian scientific and precision equipment manufacturer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tecnomasio was an Italian scientific and precision instrument company founded in the 1860s. By the beginning of the 20th century the company has begun to produce electrical equipment. After financial problems in the early 1900s the company was acquired by Brown Boveri becoming Tecnomasio Italiano Brown Boveri commonly known as TIBB; instrument production halted and the company became an industrial electrical equipment producer, one of the major companies in Italy.
Industry | formerly: Scientific instruments Electro-mechanical engineering latterly industrial electromechanical devices |
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Founded | 1863 |
Founder | Luigi Longoni, Carlo Dell'Acqua, Ignazio Porro |
Headquarters | , |
Key people | Bartolomeo Cabella, director (1871-1903) |
Products | formerly Scientific, and high precision instruments latterly Locomotives, alternators, transformers, electric arc furnaces |
The company became part of the ABB group as ABB Tecnomasio in 1988 after the merger of its parent. The plant in Vado Ligure became part of Adtranz and later part of Bombardier's transportation group.