Profile

The Fontana Group is a great international reality in the market of high quality fastener production and trade, with a major role in Europe, it is one of the most important manufacturers in the fastener industry world-wide.
The Group includes 15 production plants based in Europe and in the United States, as well as a sales organization in all continents, which employs more than 2,500 people. Every year, over 200,000 tons of finished products exit the Group’s plants. They correspond to about 10 billion pieces of standard and custom special parts in diameters ranging from 2.5 to 33 mm. and lengths from 3 to 500 mm.
The Group’s turnover consists of 30% products destined to the domestic market, and 70% of sales addressed to the international markets. 80% of the overall Group production is addressed to the automotive market and its subcontractors, while the remaining 20% is reserved to distributors. As well as the traditional brand “Fontana Luigi”, the Group gathers other prestigious brand names of the Italian fastener industry, such as Lobo, I.B.S., Bulloneria Barge, MeridBulloni, Bulloneria Briantea. In addition, the Fontana Group can rely on a widespread presence in Europe, in North and South America, in Asia and in the Far East through its sales and distribution network, “Fontana Fasteners”, locally focused on the automotive, industrial and distribution sectors.

Strong Points
The Group is managed by a holding company, which establishes the strategies to be pursued and put into effect, and is based in the new premises of Veduggio, which was opened on the occasion of the celebrations for the first 50 years of activity of the parent company, Fontana Luigi. 
The strong points of the Group consist in its constant commitment to research and development; its’ ability to develop innovative products capable to solve customers’ technical problems; product quality; service effectiveness in all pre-sale and after-sale phases.
All this, along with an over-50 years-long history and tradition, and the authority and strength of well-known and successful brands, allow the Group to develop synergies in the production, management and commercial areas to the benefit of customers and the marketplace.
Within the fastener industry, the companies belonging to the Fontana Group can be included in the list of those which first proposed themselves as “global suppliers”, thanks to an integrated product and service system based on research and development and aimed at studying and manufacturing co-designed products in partnership with customers, and on the offer of logistic services capable to reduce material handling costs on the production lines.

The Fontana Group is a privileged supplier of some of the most important industrial automakers in the world, and supplies its products also to several outstanding manufacturers in the areas of earthmoving machines, engines, heavy and light vehicles, shipbuilding, large plants, civil construction, mechanical metalwork, home electric appliances, etc.
The list of the major customers of the Group includes prestigious companies, such as Fiat Auto, General Motors, Caterpillar, Volkswagen, Audi, Seat, Skoda, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Ferrari, Porsche, Renault, Peugeot, Same Deutz, John Deere, Berco, Iveco, Cummins, Nissan, Opel, Ford MAN, Bosch, Piaggio, Saab, Volvo, Whirlpool, Thomson, and Zanussi.