Interview with Amerigo Marano, CEO of TeknoSud, published this week PanoramaEconomy.
John Lucianelli
There's a company in Pomigliano d'Arco, in the same country as the Neapolitan finished on the front pages of newspapers for each other Fiat, which reverses the history of Italian emigration. It 's the TeknoSud, mechanical engineering company that actually succeed in attracting the minds and knowledge from the far north.
"Of our 110 employees, 90 are graduates, and 40% of these coming from the north," he told Panorama Economy Amerigo Marano, 44, founder and director of the company founded in 2003 by challenge of a geologist. TeknoSud offers its services to companies primarily engaged in transportation. Automotive everyone. E 'partner Fiat, Alenia, Alstom, Breda, Bombardier, Menarini and Trenitalia.
"Fiat has maintained its expertise in the area of \u200b\u200bTurin. Come from that area of \u200b\u200bour most experienced employees, who have come to the South when the company began developing the Piedmont to design the South, "said Marano." In those areas there is a rootedness in the cultural sector that can not be here for reasons related to the history of the automobile industry of our country. But we also work with many bell boys. "
"Probably in other regions would have much less bumpy road path, "he admits. "But TeknoSud has obtained important results without sacrifice and receive funding from the state, attacking the market with the right strategies, skills and great cost."
"We designed the interiors of 80% of high-speed trains," he says. "With regard to the automotive industry, we are leaders in the design of the control board's license: We are working on the new Panda, both in design and for mechanical testing and materials. Our project, both on the traditional version with the drive on the left than on the right-hand drive, will be delivered within December. But we made plans for the new Doblo, Ferrari, the high-speed trains and the Boeing 787 ".
In the research will be invested approximately 10% of revenues (about EUR 4 million per year) by filing patents for new technologies and projects and collaborating with agencies and institutions.
"With the founding of H2U (University of Bari Hydrogen) are working on a hydrogen engine," says Marano. "We have dealt with the design of a microcar powered always hydrogen. In 2009, economic crisis, we have designed an electric scooter made up 99% of recyclable materials. " In the future the company
There are development projects with new materials. And the expansion abroad, with the first concrete steps to initiate a process of internationalization. "Soon we will open a headquarters in India," concludes it TeknoSud administrator. "It will be a new company that will work in an area where we are seeing good results in the railway sector. We will send our engineers there and obviously the place to recruit. And optimize production in real time thanks to the speed of the Internet. "
