HISTORY

Established in 1914 as "National Italian Association among the manufacturers of the mechanical industry", ANIMA soon asserted itself as the leading economic structure, grouping the most important names of the newly born Italian industry, from Giovanni Agnelli to Giuseppe Orlando to Ercole Marelli.

Soon after the tragic war events, ANIMA started off again: representing within the General Confederation of the Italian Industry - Confindustria the most qualified mechanical end engineering companies, in a short time the Association became the national reference point for the whole branch, of which ANIMA promotes the growth, the development end the up-to-date technological modernisation.

These were years of evolution that in 1988 brought about the transformation of ANIMA from "Association of companies" to "Federation of Associations and Unions": a decisive step that offered the thousand member-companies - covering more than 60 manufacturing specializations - a modern "system" to gain goals at national and international ambit.