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Our story
Since 1961
A winning story since 1961
1961
Business foundedFranco Agostino founded Albert Otto Italiana
1972
New headquarterMaus Italia Sas was established in Bagnolo Cremasco on an area of 10,000 square metres
1976
The second generationHis son Stefano, a mechanical engineer, joined the company
2016
The third generationStefanos' daughter Anna, a mechanical engineer has been working in the company
The Beginning
Domenico Franco Agostino was born in Messina in 1917. Aged only 14, he decided to seek his fortune in the North, his destination being Milan. Aged 28, after serving throughout his youth for seven long years during World War II, he began his career determined to achieve his dream of setting up his own business. During the war years, Franco met by correspondence Luisa Capoferri, a girl from Crema soon to become Mrs Agostino, who would be one of the pillars of the future business.
His business card read: 'Franco Agostino Industrial Dealer'. The two made contact with manufacturers of welding machines, abrasives, thermometers and pressure gauges, an industry Franco was familiar with thanks to his apprenticeship in Milan. In 1959, by pure coincidence Franco became the Italian representative of Albert Otto, a German manufacturer of tube expanders. In 1960, Albert Otto’s owners - elderly and childless - put forth to the Agostino family to manufacture the German product directly in Italy: in 1961 Franco Agostino's Albert Otto Italiana was founded and in 1972, after purchasing an area of 10,000 square metres in the municipality of Bagnolo Cremasco, Maus Italia Sas was established.
The Growth
In 1976 his son Stefano, a mechanical engineer, joined the company. Together with his father, he studied products, introduced new machinery onto the market and filed the first patents by Maus Italia. Stefano proceeded with determination: he believed in technological innovation and market diversification achieved through a widespread sales organisation allowing the brand ‘Maus Italia’ to expand all over the world.
Above all, Stefano was firmly convinced that people are the very heart of a company's success. Therefore, he invested in human capital by valuing people and roles, and he surrounded himself with skilled operators as well as technical, commercial and administrative collaborators. The result was a winning, competent and proactive team.
The present and the future
His daughter Anna - also a mechanical engineer - has been working in the company since 2016, giving new impetus and energy to the business her father and grandfather had built. Father and daughter work together side by side every day to guarantee the excellence of Maus Italia and support all customers worldwide with competence and passion: the company's distinctive traits.