FAIRS 2008
LIGHT & BUILDING Frankfurt - GERMANY - (6th - 11th April) - STAND D71 - Pav. 4.0.
EXPOLUX 2008 San Paolo - BRASIL - (8th - 12th April) - STREET C – Num. 38
LIGHT FAIR INTERNATIONAL 2008 Las Vegas – NV – USA (28-30 May) - booth #947
Platinum: feb 2007
An always rewarding kind of specialization
Anofol's first forty years
It is one of the very few global companies to provide continuous production of anodized and olished aluminum strips. Thanks to their particular electrical-chemical processing technique, Anofol produce surfaces (especially for the lighting industry and architecture for interiors) with optical reflection features that are considerably superior to those treated with other types of processing.
If Anofol's philosophy has always been that of collaborating side by side with their customers in order to find, with them, the best and most appropriate solution, their research & development office has worked on the most various problems. With their special plants and
highly specialized workers, turnover in this industry is indeed extremely low. Anofol have unfailingly pursued maximum quality, by producing vanguard materials, used for accomplishing important projects. Accordingly, ali the reflecting structures at the New Milan
Rho Trade Fair, for instance, were made with their products. The quality and features of their output, more advanced even compared with those to be found in the USA, determined this firm to inaugurate, in 200 I , a services and mechanical processing center in Atlanta, Georgia.
The American market's response has been so favorable that, within June next, these premises are going to double their volume.
Upon the40th anniversary oftheirestablishment, Anofol, run by Paolo Gnocchi - who has been the firm's chairman since 1990 - have got many successes to celebrate.
Besides extending their presence in the USA and cIosing 2006 with total sales growth up 40% on the previous year, starting on January l, 2007 Anofol have become members of the Innsbruckbased Bartenbach Foundation, the most important projecting, measuring and simulating center for studies on light. In the ambit of such foundation - to which only a few dozen enterprises the world over have access, selected because of their productive capacities - you will meet with the University for Light, an important body for architecture and engineering graduates wishing to specialize in technicallighting engineering.
The current objective of Paolo Gnocchi, an entrepreneur awarded, in 2003, the "Mercurio d'Oro" (Golden Mercury) prize by the Lombardy Region, is to bring about partnerships with parallel enterprises, in order to enter and develop new markets.
Paolo Gnocchi narrates: "I am convinced that the largest markets we have to refer to, stiliremain, for the time being, Europe and North America. However, l'm sure that, in just a few years, since China, India and ali the developing countries are going to need far more developed materials, this is going to make it possible to inaugurate a trend in energy saving." He thus concludes: "Now, my objective is to organize also this new venture".
