Falck Group is an Italian
company
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located in
Sesto San Giovanni
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. It was founded in 1906 and is one of the oldest companies in the
steel industry
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. In the 1990s it turned to the production of
energy
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from
renewable sources
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.
It was founded in 1906 in
Milan
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by Giorgio Enrico Falck under the name Società anonima Acciaierie e Ferriere Lombarde. The first and most important
industrial plants were built in
Sesto San Giovanni
Sesto San Giovanni (; lmo, Sest San Giovann, label=Western Lombard ), locally referred to as just Sesto ( lmo, Sest, links=no), is a ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Milan, Lombardy, northern Italy. Its railway station is the northernmost st ...
. In 1931 the company changed its name to Acciaiere e Ferriere Lombarde Falck. The company produced steel and related products, both processed and semi-finished, for over seventy years until the crisis in the mid-seventies when the company began to decline. Its last furnaces closed in 1995.
At the end of the nineties the Falck Group, still run by the Falck family, turned to the production of
renewable energy
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, through the subsidiary
Falck Renewables.
See also
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Enrico Falck
Enrico Falck was an Italian entrepreneur, member of the board of directors of the Falck Industries. He joined the Italian Christian Democracy, and was an Italian Senator from Lombardy.
Political career
In 1934 Falck was named by king Vittorio ...
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History of Steel Industry
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Steel industry in Italy
References
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External links
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The Story of the Falck Group
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Companies based in Lombardy