LAMIFLEX growing its base in the Indian market

Lamiflex, founded in 1976, is a leading global provider of advanced composite materials solutions. Part of Itema Group since 2017, Lamiflex is engaged in further boosting a longstanding tradition of excellence in its sectors, leveraging on the new synergies derived from the cooperation between the two companies. Lamiflex’s Sales Director Davide Carrara provides insights into their glorious journey so far and also shares details about their growing dominance in India

The core business of Lamiflex focuses on key components for rapier weaving machinery such as flexible rapier tapes and sprocket wheels and that is also what they started with. Lamiflex was born as a textile mill in the Seriana Valley, worldwide famous as the cradle of the Italian textile industry. It was established by Davide Carrara’s mother Luigina Bernini and Luigi Castelli. To increase the company’s productivity, the Italian company chose to invest in rapier looms, but had to face a technical problem: the nylon rapier tapes melted easily when the looms were running at high speeds. And that’s how everything started. Luigina and Luigi, interestingly, introduced the first composite tape that, thanks to a cotton structure combined with phenolic resin, was able to bear the highest speed with no risks.

Entrepreneurial Journey

The entrepreneurial vision of the two mill owners, fully aware of the potential of the emerging market of composite products, completely revolutionised the rapier weaving machinery world forever, taking Lamiflex to the pinnacle of the textile industry today with a turnover of more than Euro 20 million per year, more than 100 employees in Italy and Hong Kong, and a global network of distributors. But Lamiflex did not stop there. Over the past few years, the Italian company, based in Ponte Nossa, has diversified into different sectors, taking advantage of the technical know-how on composite products acquired over these 40 years.

Collaborative Effort