HOT ROLLING CYLINDERS HOME | CONTACTS | WHERE WE ARE | CERTIFICATIONS | OUR HISTORY | PRODUCTION PROCESSES | PRODUCTS PRIVACY HISTORY | MISSION | COMPANY PROFILE Our history SanGregorio is a private company located in San Macario di Samarate about 40 km north-west of Milan, where in 1963 Franco Pozzi, Antonio Rogora, Arturo Mara, Emilio Colombo and Mario Crespi took over a small foundry specializing in the production of wheels for cranes and devices for the textile industry, at the time very flourishing in the area. Precisely in those years, due to the continuous expansion of the steel industry in Italy and the consequent proliferation of rolling mills, the demand for rolling cylinders began to assume significant proportions. The times were therefore ripe to offer the market an alternative product to the steel cylinder then commonly used: a product that could satisfy the needs of rolling mills which, being always in rapid evolution, increasingly felt the need to experiment with materials capable of guaranteeing their best performance. Thus began the production of the first nodular cast iron cylinders and the immediate positive results that followed definitively gave the turning point to what would be the SanGregorio of the future. All the resources were devoted to the enhancement of the production of cylinders by adapting the various qualities of the products to the continuous evolution of lamination technologies. The nodular cast iron cylinders in their main pearlitic, ferritic and acicular configurations had by now almost completely supplanted the commonly used steel cylinders in the rolling of long products. At the beginning of the 80s, SanGregorio was by now a consolidated brand on national soil and the logical consequence of the enormous wealth of experience accumulated in facing and solving the various problems that arose during the continuous evolution of rolling in Italy, was that to begin expanding the market abroad. The first contacts began initially with the European market, especially with Spain, and subsequently throughout the world. Currently SanGregorio represents a cornerstone of the world steel scene with a product quality recognized by all its many customers who daily turn to it as well as to buy the product also for technical advice and services. San Gregorio Spa Foundry Mechanical Workshop VAT number: 00188860126