Gerardi S.p.A. Co. was established by Ivano Gerardi Sr. in 1971 with a background of 20 years experience in all kinds of machine shop throughout Canada and U.S.A. The company started as subcontractor surface grinding spec......Gerardi S.p.A. Co. was established by Ivano Gerardi Sr. in 1971 with a background of 20 years experience in all kinds of machine shop throughout Canada and U.S.A. The company started as subcontractor surface grinding specialzing in precision guideways. After 2 years due to the down market situation the company developed the product which has given it international worldwide success: the Precision steel modular vise. Today the Company is the largest Italian vise manufacturer, one of the leaders in Europe and the quality of its products and solutions have been developed and known all over the world. The company has recently moved into a new 4.000 m2 building (roughly 44.000 square feet) of which 1.500 (16.500) of offices spaces in close proximity to the new Milan Intercontinental Airport Malpensa 2000. OfficesSince 1986 Gerardi has established a worldwide sales of Angular Heads for traditional machine tools and machining centers and of Live Tooling for C.N.C. lathes. Such products have been developed in close partnership with the Alberti Co. Using its well known image and its selling channels together with worldwide marketing efforts, the company began trading and grew from few pieces production to thousands and made such technologies to be known and sold all over the world Today the best markets for these products are Japan, U.S.A., Germany and England and the final users are the best known companies in their own sectors (Rolls Royce, Ferrari, Boeing). Chinese PlantIn the same period the company established deep relationships with the Chinese Aerospace industry which brought to the set up of a Joint-venture in China whose production capacity is now of more than 1200 vises each month with the highest European standards of quality. CNC Grinding MachinesDuring the eighties Gerardi, in order to improve and increase the manufacturing process, had to develope and design its own CMC Grinding machine, unable to find the right one on the market. A totally new concept was at the base of the project: wheel change, cover wheel change, two working, orientable C.N.C. wheelhead. Later on the creep-feed technology has been developed. In the nineties the advances reached in special Grinding technologies like the double wheelhead, the creep-feed and the multiple spindle head have been the base for the developments of new products and the highest efficiency of the production processes in Italy and China.