For over sixty years, Lafert Group has been synonymous with technological excellence in the fields of Energy Efficiency and Industrial Automation. As a European leader in the design of customized electric motors, we put our experience at the service of a more productive and sustainable future. Our focus is constantly on tomorrow: we develop solutions that improve overall efficiency through synchronous and asynchronous motors that redefine standards of reliability, performance, and compactness.
Our strength lies in an integrated ecosystem of specialized companies, each with organizational autonomy but united by a single mission: to innovate wherever the highest technological capability is needed. With 11 locations across Europe, North America, and Asia, including 5 state-of-the-art production units, we ensure a global presence capable of responding flexibly to the challenges of the most complex markets, from robotics to renewable energies.
Since 2018, joining the Sumitomo Heavy Industries (SHI) group has marked the beginning of a new era of growth. Within the Strategic Business Unit Drive Technologies - DT-SBU, Lafert acts as a global Competence Center for the research and development of the electric motors of the future.
This synergy combines our design agility with the financial strength of an industrial giant with over 6 billion euros in revenue. Together, we are expanding our product portfolio towards integrated solutions and sophisticated power transmission systems, aiming for ambitious goals and consolidating our leadership in the ultra-high efficiency segments (IE5 and IE6).
Lafert's numbers tell a story of constant investments and international success:
Production Capacity: Over 1 million motors produced every year.
Innovation: A strategic team of over 90 engineers and an R&D investment plan boosted by 50% under Sumitomo's guidance.
Markets: A strong presence in Italy, Europe (with Germany as a key market) and North America, with continuous expansion towards high-tech emerging markets.
Key Sectors: Excellent partner for HVAC, Industrial Machinery, Wind Energy, Robotics, and Material Handling (AGV/AMR).
Our financial solidity is guaranteed by strict governance and monthly reporting in compliance with international standards, ensuring our clients the stability of a reliable long-term partner.
Vision: Knowing how to innovate to improve the world day by day, reducing environmental impact through energy savings and extreme customization.
Mission: Creating innovative motors and increasingly efficient integrated systems, studying effective solutions that anticipate the demands of the global market.
At Lafert, we are aware that it is not only what we do that makes a difference, but how we do it. With a workforce that today counts around 925 professionals, we place the individual at the center of every process. We believe in respecting diversity and in the value of talent as primary drivers of corporate development.
The strength of the Lafert Group lies in its ability to combine a global vision with a widespread local presence. We operate through a network of 11 offices across Europe, North America, and Asia, with 5 strategic production units designed to ensure maximum process integration. This structure allows us to offer our partners the highest design flexibility and unparalleled responsiveness, ensuring timely interventions and tailor-made solutions in the world's major industrial hubs.
For over sixty years, we have been weaving alliances with world leaders in various industrial sectors. Joining Sumitomo Heavy Industries (SHI) has further strengthened this approach, multiplying opportunities for international collaboration and consolidating our ability to understand and anticipate the needs of modern society. Our global presence is the tool that allows us to build, day by day, a more efficient and sustainable world.
The beating heart of the Group, the San Donà plant is the center where we determine development lines and global strategies. Here we produce high-efficiency synchronous and asynchronous electric motors for the most challenging applications. The historic headquarters is now the symbol of our evolution thanks to the new 4.0 plant: a cutting-edge hub with automated lines and total traceability, designed to drive the transition towards superior energy efficiency.
A center of excellence for robotics and automation, the Noventa plant is a leader in the production of highly performing brushless servomotors. Here we have brought to life the most disruptive innovations of the Group, integrating asynchronous technology with the performance of servomotors. Thanks to full control over the component supply chain, we guarantee reliable products and extreme flexibility in customizations.
In Bologna, we focus on the development of critical components for automation, particularly drives for servo motor control. Working in close synergy with the other plants, we offer support to develop integrated "motor+drive" packages that optimize performance and reduce environmental impact, meeting the demands for intelligent and ready-to-use systems.
Entirely dedicated to the production of brushless servomotors and gearless motors for the Asian market. Inaugurated in 2012, Lafert Suzhou ensures the quality of the Lafert brand on a local scale, drastically reducing delivery times and logistics costs for customers operating in this high-growth area.
Lafert Elektromotorji is our center of excellence for the production of high-quality windings. A fundamental element for supporting the Group's production capacity, it promotes the adoption of increasingly compact and high-performance designs.
Our structure is composed of productive companies and strategically located commercial branches, fully integrated into the processes but autonomous in excellence. The international commercial offices extensively cover the European territory (Germany, France, Spain, Great Britain) and North America, ensuring that Lafert's Italian quality speaks the language of global markets and high-tech emerging markets.
Our history is one with the proverbial characteristics of our land, Veneto. A region of hands and brains that is recognized as the virtues of concreteness and tenacity, with the added value of innovative ideas.
In San Donà di Piave just outside Venice, we founded Lafert in 1962, a company producing asynchronous electric motors that is committed to guaranteeing the quality of the Lafert product on the Italian market. Today, The San Donà facility is the headquarters of the Lafert Group, where our technical team kicks off the customization process, characteristic of our historic approach to the market.
At the end of the 1980s we enter the international market with our intrinsic propensity for customization. In those years we were introduced to different demands and regulations from the global markets, often more rigorous than in Italy. In the early 1990s the North American market already reserved particular attention to energy savings and required some of the highest efficiency standards in the world. Lafert North America was founded in 1992 to meet these needs thanks to a fruitful joint venture in Canada.
In the 1990s we face the first industrial automation project for the European market and expand our production. To ensure the highest levels of customization, we identity an in-house need that will profoundly change our history: internally producing all the components of our motors and acquiring proficiency in the servo motors field. In 1994 we found Lafert Servo Motors, a few kilometers from Lafert San Donà, and Lafert Elektromotorji in Slovenia to respond to this expansion of the business.
In the second half of the 1990s our expansion continues, as we increase the production and distribution capacity with the establishment of some operative units in Spain, France and Australia. In 1997 the Lafert Group acquires ICME, a manufacturer of small and medium-power motors, and the AEG Fabrica de Motores Group, based in Barcelona, joins the following year.
These are the years of the great international development of our business in which we see the expansion of Lafert both by product ranges and by application areas.
In the first decade of 2000 we increase our strength by entering new markets and applying our products to unique application areas. This gives us the opportunity to study important innovations and develop a strong understanding of specific applications that still put us at the top of the market today. In particular, thanks to our expertise in asynchronous motors and servo motors, we were among the very first to apply permanent magnet technology. From this moment on, we continue to be leaders in energy-saving market segments while manufacturing super-efficient motors that are compact in size and outperform the limits of current regulations. We are always ready to exceed new standards.
In the second decade of the 2000s we focus on market needs by integrating a permanent magnet synchronous motor with a drive. This innovative technology has led us to enter new business segments especially related to renewable energy and material handling. In 2012 a new adventure leads us to the Asian market with the opening of Lafert Suzhou where we bring our experience and quality Lafert motors, synonymous with warranty all over the world.
Our great expansion and the level of brand recognition in 2018 led to the integration of Lafert Group with the Sumitomo international group. Today we can face challenges that require the ability to respond to new global needs such as developing synergies and integration projects with other world leaders. This also supported the development of new business areas offering integrated packages for industrial automation such as solutions for AGVs and airport baggage handling.
Today, Lafert is an international group able to deliver quality all over the world through co-engineering processes and a completely internal and controlled production. The new plant in San Donà di Piave is fully automated with maximum energy efficiency, ready to confirm our reputation of evolution and successful market orientation.
The entrance into the Sumitomo Group, in the Power Transmission and Control (PTC) division, allows us to create fundamental synergies between the other companies of the Group, develop new integrated products and enter new markets. To support our expansion, we inaugurated a new site in San Donà di Piave, totally automated with maximum energy efficiency, proving our history in grounding our work in evolution and market orientation. We also acquired a new industrial area next to our headquarters where we will build another piece of our future made of innovation, expansion, and sustainability.
In 2022, we crossed the line of our sixtieth anniversary and, with this occasion, we strengthened ourselves as a Group: we simplified the internal relationships by unifying all the Italian societies under the one common leadership of Lafert S.p.A.
Education: Degree in Electrical Engineering – University of Pavia
In April 2023 I was appointed CEO of Lafert Group and member of the Board of Directors, reporting for the entire worldwide business of the Group.
With a long managerial experience in multinational companies and leading positions abroad, I am responsible for guiding Lafert's growth in designing and manufacturing increasingly efficient and performing electric motors, but also in developing integrated solutions in synergy with the other companies of PTC (Power Transmissions & Control) division of Sumitomo Heavy Industries Ltd.
I focus on results improvement and value creation, strategically resetting the business imperatives for both growth and profitability, developing the organization and making continuous improvements that aim to business excellence.
I exercise a "pragmatic inclusive leadership with guidance", where consistency, integrity and leading by example are the founding values that build trust, which is an essential ingredient of my success in working with different cultures around the world. So, people embrace the project and its leader, and therefore strive to achieve goals and ensure growth.
Background:
Education: Degree in Business Economics – University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan
MBA - University Torin
Since April 2026, he has held the position of Finance Director of the Group, overseeing the administration, finance, and control areas of Lafert S.p.A. and all the foreign companies belonging to the Group.
His professional journey has been marked by increasingly responsible roles in Finance and Controlling for internationally oriented companies in the automotive sector, from Fiat Auto to Pirelli Tyre. From the beginning he focused on profitability management and evaluation of strategic investments, to later coordinate structural cost reduction and improving margins initiatives by foodprint rationalization and KPI standardization.
Education: Degree in Economics and Business – University of Pescara
Master in Supply Chain Management - Bocconi University, Milan
Since 2024, she has held the position of Global Supply Chain Director of the Group, managing the entire logistics process with a global and multi-plant approach, from customer order management to final product shipment, with the aim of improving on-time delivery (OTD), reducing lead time (LT), and increasing operational efficiency.
After an initial experience in accounting lasting about 3 years, she joined an American multinational company in the Automotive sector, where she worked for 27 years, taking on roles of increasing responsibility in Supply Chain and Purchasing, and later reaching the position of Customer Service - Global Supply Chain and Capacity Balancing Director, with the responsibility for 4 production plants.
Education: Degree in Electronic Engineering – University of Bologna
Since January 2026, he has held the position of Sales Director of the Group, with responsibility for the sales structure of the Italian production plants and international commercial offices. He supervises commercial objectives by defining sales strategies, monitors market trends to anticipate customer needs, and develops solutions increasingly aligned with market demands and integrated with Sumitomo group of companies.
With over twenty-five years of experience in power electronics, industrial automation and electric vehicles, he initially held more technical roles before moving into commercial and business development positions, managing relationships with strategic players based on trust and integrity, developing and coordinating sales networks in Europe as well as in Asia and North America, and supporting post-acquisition company integration activities.
Education: Degree in Business Administration – University Cà Foscari, Venice
Master General Management – CUOA Foundation
Since 2022 he has held the position of HR Director of the Group, supervising the management of human resources of Lafert S.p.A. and of all the companies abroad belonging to the Group, defining the related strategic lines consistent with the need to support the development of the company's business and with the aim of enhancing human capital.
His professional career has been articulated in international companies, in the metalworking and food industrial sectors, always in the Human Resources field and with increasing roles of responsibility. He began his experience in Komatsu, then continued in Birra Peroni and then in Fiamm, before reaching Lafert.
Innovation is part of us and fosters continuous growth to achieve our main goal: responding to the needs of modern industry with flexible integrated solutions while anticipating future needs of the market.
We are driven to create top quality, cutting-edge motors that are increasingly efficient in performance and design, while paying close attention to environmental considerations. We have always been committed to supplying technological innovation for advanced system applications. We combine the highest standard of industrial processes and excellent production capacities with our core value: people at the centre.
We consider it essential that our activities are carried out according to the principles and values of legality, integrity, transparency and ethics.
Therefore, we are committed to spreading and sharing these principles and values, so that they can guide the behavior of employees, collaborators and all those who interact with us.
The promotion objective is achieved through the preparation of a system of rules and internal controls aimed at preventing conduct and acts that are not consistent with the values and ethical principles expressed by the Lafert Group.
