DIVERSIFICATION IN
SUCCESS More than 50 years of hard work and a successful diversification strategy have earned VRV the position of a world leading Group supplying, through three production units, the most important engineering companies, general contractors and end-users across the globe. Filomena Nardi reports. 28 Industry Europe
1956 three young artisans decided to set up a small factory in the Milan area, intended for the maintenance and repairing of equipment used within the pharmaceutical industry. The trio probably never imagined that 50 years later the initials of their surnames VRV would represent a world leading Group of companies specialised in the design and manufacturing of pressure equipment for the chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical and power industries. Today VRV operates through three production divisions: Pressure Vessels, Cryogenic and Process and Plants. The Pressure Vessel division designs and manufactures pressure equipment such as reactors, columns, heat exchanges and special vessels. The Cryogenic division is focused on the construction of equipment for the storage, transport and distribution of liquefied technical