Lorenzetti

Your browser does not support HTML5 video. From the 1920s Brazil has gone through a profound transformation as a result of its industrialization and immigration, mainly Spanish and Italian immigrants, who took a chance throughout America they were willing to work and rebuild their lives after the war that had devastated Europe. Brothers Lorenzo and... Eugnio arrived in Brazil in the early 1920s to continue with the work started by their father, Alessandro Lorenzetti, who modestly established a company which is currently one of the largest electrical material and household appliances company in the industry, Lorenzetti S.A. Indstrias Brasileiras Eletrometalrgicas. The Tonanni & Lorenzetti partnership operated in the precision screw industry and had only a few employees and four automatic lathes. Since the late 1920s and from the 1930s on the company has also been operating in the sector for drawn shapes, maintenance, manufacture and assembly of industrial machines. Under the license of an Italian company, it started to produce porcelain for low-tension electrical material. Lorenzetti has always taken part in the citys social and political life and helped in the reconditioning of armaments and manufacture of ammunition parts for So Paulos troops during the 1932 Constitutionalist Revolution. During the 1930s, Lorenzetti developed and manufactured porcelain disk insulators and fittings for power transmission lines and innovated by manufacturing for the first time in South America a resin know as bakelite, used for home and industrial installations. In the same period, it manufactured three-phase electric engines. Due to the shortage of gasoline, during the period between the wars Lorenzetti developed coal-based devices for making engines work. That kind of device became known as gasogeneand was installed in automotive vehicles as an alternative to gasoline. he early 1940s were marked with the production of high-pressure and floating hydraulic pumps for deep wells. The company expanded commercially throughout South ...Read More