It was at the end of the 1950s that Giuseppe Carcano with his wife Ebe and his sister Franca decided to turn the family’s mechanical workshop into a hot steel forging plant.
And so, more than half a century ago, this event hailed the start of the history of CARCANO, a company that has succeeded in growing over the years, reaching new sectors and markets and increasingly becoming a benchmark for quality and reliability.

Nowadays CARCANO, together with its brands that identify its various production and marketing ranges, is positioned as one of the most important companies in this industry on a European and world level. The reliability, strength and durability of our products enjoy an ever more positive reception from customers by virtue of the cornerstones of the CARCANO quality policy: full control over the entire production process – from the design stage to forging, controls, warehouse and shipping – for the vast range of in-house production items, the rigorous controls over manufacturers and on every batch for marketed products.

The CARCANO production philosophy is based on the capacity of having full control over every production phase of the articles in its catalogue: all new items, whether they are intended to enter into permanent production or have been made to order, are designed by CARCANO’s specialist in-house departments. Once this phase has been successfully completed, a few prototypes are always made to test out their robustness under normal use. After these tests have been passed, the dies are prepared and the new items can go into production.

The work processes are performed in-house by CARCANO’s specialist staff, who deal with the hot forging. All batches undergo various tests in the laboratory and, in the event of any discrepancy, it is extremely easy to trace back with precision to the pieces affected by the problem.
As regards those products in the catalogue that are marketed by CARCANO, the real difference is always the expertise of the producer: the company is, in fact, in a position to make the best judgement about producers, the materials they use and the processes they perform and the pieces undergo the same laboratory testing as in-house production items.

The first CARCANO range to acquire its own identity was the lifting system range: the CARTEC brand was created in 2007 and gained success over the subsequent years as a clearly identified and distinct brand. About a decade later, in 2018 we acquired STROPS, a historically strong company in the manufacture of lifting slings and anchoring systems: another important and recognised brand was thus added to the range of CARCANO products on offer.

All that remained was to give a deserved identity of its own to a range that was similarly historic but which had never been given a specific image of its own: we are talking about the range of accessories for cables and chains, an important element in the CARCANO offering. So, in 2019, the last, in chronological terms, of the three brands was born: CARFER, an additional step ahead in the process of renewing the company’s image, providing its customers with further transparency and clarity.