OMET announces founder's death

OMET has announced the passing away of its founder, Angelo Bartesaghi, following a battle with cancer.

Bartesaghi founded the OMET group in 1963 as a small scale engineering company. Towards the end of the 1970’s, the company began to specialize in the design and construction of the first machines to produce paper napkins and presses for printing labels. It continued to grow in the field of mechanical engineering centered on Lecco, where, today, it has its headquarters on two different complexes with a combined overall size of approximately 8,000 square meters.

He established OMET as a global player with customers in over 70 countries worldwide, and set up two foreign subsidiary companies: OMET Iberica in Barcelona, and OMET(Suzhou) Mechanical Technology in China.