OMS – Officina Meccanica Sestese SpA

In 1949 Maurizio Rossi and Luigi Cristina founded the company Officina Meccanica Sestese in Arona. In those difficult post-war years, the company undertook the important task of producing equipment and accessories for kilns especially for the production of bricks. OMS production soon asserted itself on the market so much that after a few years it became necessary to change premises. So, in 1958 a new plant was inaugurated in Arona where it continued to produce technologically advanced kiln equipment. In the following years new and more sophisticated brick handling equipment and systems were