INNOVATION AND
SYNERGY Thanks to its industrial and service companies, Gruppo Industriale Tosoni SpA is a market leader in both the construction and transport sectors. Innovation and synergies among its companies are vital to its success, as Barbara Rossi finds out.
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eadquartered in the Verona area (Villafranca), Gruppo Industriale Tosoni SpA is a holding, wholly controlled by the founding Tosoni family, which leads a group composed of seven industrial companies, two service companies and several foreign branches (the latter are controlled by the Italian operational companies rather than by the holding itself) organised in two macro-divisions: construction and transport. The group operates in the construction area through three companies, namely Cordioli & C, a leader in steel structures, Officine Tosoni Lino SpA, specialised in curtain walls for buildings, and Far Systems SRL, a specialist
in electronic systems for the energy, environment and construction fields. The transport division is led by Saira Europe SpA, a division sub-holding producing railway components, and includes Saira Electronics Srl, Saira Seats SAS, and Saira Asia Interiors Pvt Ltd. Saira Electronics Srl is a producer of electronics devices for transportation and Saira Seats SAS is a European leader in railway seats manufacturing based in France. In terms of interiors, as well as Saira Europe SpA itself, there is Saira Asia Interiors Pvt Ltd, which was set up in the Indian state of Gujarat in 2009 as a wholly Indian company, with the aim of providing a local presence in the country,
where it manufactures products and carries out projects, designing and supplying railway interiors and electronics products. The two service companies of the group are Far Energy Srl, also based in Villafranca, whose activity is managing alternative energy plants, and R&D Systems Srl, which carries out the R&D activities of the group from a modern R&D centre based in Rovereto (Trento). This latter company works in close collaboration with universities, as well as public and private organisations, operating in research and innovation. It was set up in 2008, unifying all the R&D activities of the group in a single structure, as Tosoni
