Idra Group

Idra Group (Idra S.r.l.; originally Idra Presse S.p.A.) is a manufacturer of die casting machinery, founded in 1946 in Brescia, Italy.[1] The company is notable for producing the largest high-pressure die casting machines in the world.[2]

Idra Group
Formerly
  • Idra Presse
  • Idra
  • Costruzioni Idromeccaniche Bresciane
TypePrivate
IndustryDie casting
Founded1946 (1946) in Brescia, Italy
FounderAdamo Pasotti
Headquarters
Travagliato
,
Italy
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Riccardo Ferrario
Products
Revenue€87 million (2015)
Number of employees
161 (2015)
ParentLK Machinery
Subsidiaries
  • Idra Pressen GmbH

History

The company was originally founded by Adamo Pasotti in 1944 or 1946 with the factory located on via Triumplina in Brescia.[3]

By 1956, Idra was seeking to export its die-casting machines outside Italy.[4]

By 1971, an Idra OL-1200 S machine was being used to cast motor components weighing 7 kilograms (15 lb) for Porsche cars.[5]

Hot years

During Italy's Years of Lead in the 1970s, Giovanni Maifredi worked at Idra as a warehouse worker, having been provided with a job without having any qualifications.[6] Following the Piazza della Loggia bombing in Brescia on 28 May 1974, Idra factory workers organised a fifteen-day strike action and picket line outside the Idra factory.[7]

Original site

The original factory site at via Triumplina 43 in the north of Brescia was developed into the Triumplina Retail Park, requiring construction of new roundabout junctions.[8]

Ownership
Sunrise over Idra factory

As of 2006, Idra was 30% owned by the Intesa Sanpaolo Bank, with 70% of the remaining shares acquired by LK Machinery, a company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.[1]

For the year 2015, Idra employed 161 people, and had a turnover of €87 million, with a profit of €3 million.[3]

By 2016, LK Machinery had acquired the remainder of the outstanding shares.[1]

Development
Boxed up Giga Press die casting machine outside Idra factory

In 2000, Idra filed a patent application for die casting machine designed to produce two separate castings simultaneously from a single injection of liquid metal.[9]

References
  1. "Idra baut Führungsposition aus" [Idra expands leadership position]. Giesserei (in German). 8 November 2016. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
  2. Conserva, Mario (11 June 2019). "Idra Thinks Big: Growth, New Strategies and an Order for the Largest Press in the World". Alluminio & Leghe. PubliTec. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  3. "Idra, un bilancio 2015 da record" [Idra, balance sheet record in 2015]. Brescia Today (in Italian). 6 June 2016. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
  4. "Machinery: Italy". World trade leads. Foreign Commerce Weekly. United States Department of Commerce. 56 (20): 12. 12 November 1956. Retrieved 15 January 2022 – via University of Illinois; Google Books. IDRA Costruzioni Idromeccaniche Bresciane (manufacturer, exporter), Via Triumplina 13, Brescia, wishes to export direct or through agent very good quality die-casting machines. Correspondence in Italian preferred.
  5. "Pubblicità IDRA Costruzioni Idromeccaniche Bresciane" [Advertisement of IDRA Costruzioni Idromeccaniche Brescia] (in Italian). Fiera di Milano. January 1971. p. 34. Retrieved 15 January 2022 – via Fondazione Fiera Milano. Stampate di un semi-carter motore e di una scatola cambio velocità pressofuse in lega di magnesio su una macchina IDRA a camera fredda orizzontale tipo OL-1200 S.
  6. Brutto, Mauro (4 June 1974). "Il missino Degli Occhi di nuovo interrogato a Brescia Diecci ordini di cattura per gli attentati nel centro-Italia" [The missino Degli Occhi again questioned in Brescia Ten arrest orders for the attacks in central Italy] (PDF). L'Unità. p. 5. Retrieved 25 October 2021. Giovanni Maifredi è dunque un campione della provocazione antisindacale, assunto all'Idra senza alcuna qualifica
  7. "Brescia". Autunnocaldo (in Italian). 31 October 2019.
  8. Gorlan, Pietro. "Strade e rondò, rigenerazione a nord: L'ex Idra porta lavori per 3,2 milioni" [Streets and roundabouts, regeneration in the north: the ex-Idra development brings works for €3.2 million]. Corriere della Sera. Brescia.
  9. EP 1333948, Mortari, Graziano, "Pressure die-casting machine", published 2003-08-13, assigned to Idra Presse S.P.A, since withdrawn.

Further reading
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