LONATI has a management team skilled at anticipating trends on each continent, and a streamlined organisation geared towards the needs of the company's business partners, with personnel and technologies being continually updated. 

The industrial site is situated in Brescia, in the San Polo area, and stretches across 80,000 m², which includes an area of 24,500m² under cover. Potential annual production amounts to approximately 10/11,000 machines consisting of over 50 models, with an international market penetration of 60%, and particular focus on emerging markets such as China and Turkey, not forgetting traditional markets such as North and South America, Europe, and part of Africa. Business support is provided through an international network that covers 70 countries throughout the world, with high-quality operational services in line with the Lonati philosophy that high product quality goes hand in hand with excellent customer relationships.

Like other major Italian companies, Lonati was founded at the end of World War II, in 1946. Founded by Cav. Francesco Lonati in Rezzato, a small town in the province of Brescia, it was to be the first production unit of circular machines for men’s and children’s socks. In 1952 the new Brescia plant already measures 1,000 square meters and employs 30 people, and in 1956 the world’s first circular machine for the production of women’s socks with two feeds is unveiled. In 1960 exports expand beyond Europe to Australia, New Zealand, Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, Mexico, Chile, South America, North America, and Scandinavian countries. Under the leadership of the second generation, brothers Ettore, Fausto, and Tiberio, the company keeps growing, and in 1980 Lonati becomes a world leader, producing 90 percent of the machines used in hosiery production.
Over time, other important industrial entities become part of the Lonati Group, in 1985 Dinema, which deals with electronics, and Tecnopea, another historic mechanical-textile company acquired in 2000, this allows both to produce all components in-house and to expand growth to new sectors of the economy ranging from real estate, metallurgy, education, and food.
The new generations have continued the long path to innovation that led to the launch of the new digital project UNLIMIITEX at ITMA 2023, the most important event in textile industry.