Ercole Marelli Ventilazione Biography
Marelli Ventilazione (1891 - ) occupies today, as in the past, a prestigious place in the industrial sector, offering a complete range of low, medium and high pressure centrifugal fans as well as a series of axial and heavy duty fans. Ercole Marelli is an Italian engineering company, founded by the entrepreneur of the same name in 1891. The company produced electromechanical devices, five years later also air agitators, today's fans. On February 28, 1900, Ercole Marelli became a limited partnership. In December 1905 a factory was inaugurated in Sesto San Giovanni (MI) producing small electric motors, centrifugal electric pumps, fans and transformers. Between 1906 and 1911, the employees went from 500 to more than 1500. In 1922 the company was inherited by Fermo Marelli, son of Ercole Marelli. In the 1930s, the production of large machinery such as alternators and transformers, control systems for rolling mills for the world's major steel producers, propulsion machines for ships and train equipment, electric pumps for aqueducts and reclamation works, small fans was greatly increased , medium and large. Before World War II, employees exceeded 5000 people. In the 1960s, Ercole Marelli exported high-power locomotives for the Chilean railways and diesel-electric locomotives for the Argentine railways, reaching peak employment with 7,100 employees. Its creations are present in many works for mass transport such as traction drives for the Milan Metro and subsequently it is the first Italian company to propose power drives for chopper locomotives. Starting from 1968, following a restructuring which had become necessary to cope with falling prices in the electromechanical sector, it was put into liquidation and the fan division was taken over in March 1981 by Marelli Ventilazione Srl
