Lonati is committed to the research and development of innovative technologies, processes and materials: the best in the industry guaranteed by the highest quality at competitive prices, the most versatile solutions for the endless creations of fashion.
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The Lonati Group’s machines cover almost the entire world production of women’s hosiery, 60 per cent of men’s and children’s hosiery, 90 per cent of sportswear and seamless production and 60 per cent of traditional knitwear production. Thanks to the acquisition of historic national and international brands, the development and optimisation of technologies, and its worldwide expansion, the Lonati Group has taken local industrial traditions to unprecedented levels. The whole Group takes its strength and inspiration from these origins.
A costant passion: innovation.
International market penetration represents 90 per cent of the annual turnover and sales take place all over the world. All emerging countries are “invaded” by Lonati machines. First of all, Turkey, where European production has been progressively relocated, but also the emerging economies of India and Pakistan, as well as China, which for a long time would represent a considerable, unprecedented pool of customers, backed by growth and development that transformed the world economy, forcing also the Lonati Group to seek increasingly innovative solutions to face the subsequent fierce Chinese competition.
In spite of a huge export network, in the more than 70 countries being served, customer service is always first-class, in line with the company’s reputation for highest product quality and excellence in external relations. Therefore, the Lonati Group is a solid reality of the Brescia economy, with an increasingly representative role at national, European and world level.
The first Italian company to produce hosiery machines, Santoni was established in 1919 and joined the Lonati Group in 1989. Thanks to a Tiberio Lonati intuition, SANTONI is the leader in the production of electronic circular machines for seamless garments and meets 97% of the worldwide demand for seamlesswear machines for the different clothing sectors: underwear, sportswear, beachwear, outerwear and medicalwear, up to the recent conquest of the knitted outerwear sector. The footwear sector was added in 2018, with the production of circular machines for shoe uppers. The company has an in-house training centre, the SANTONI SCHOOL, aimed at educating technicians and operators on hardware and software technology.
Thanks to its constant and painstaking technological research, TECNOPEA has achieved the highest quality in the production of automatic boarding and packaging machines for men, women and children’s hosiery. The company’s dynamic management and automation degree guarantee efficient and fast customer service worldwide.
