Where mobility meets sustainability Industria Italiana Autobus (IIA) is Italy’s largest and foremost bus manufacturer. It is the designer, producer and distributor of the famous European Menarininibus brand. Philip Yorke reports on a company that has come through a difficult period in its history, to emerge as a much stronger and more innovative leader in its field.
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he IIA Menarinibus company was founded in January 2015 by Finmeccanica and the Del Rosso group, which specialise in the manufacture and distribution of leading bus brands in Italy. In addition to inheriting the production plant of BredaMenarinibus in Bologna, the company also took over the former Irisbus plant of Valle Ufita located in Flumeri. A few years later, the company entered into an agreement with Rampini Carlo SpA for the development of eMobility vehicles and components. Today Karsan (Koç Holding Group), which has already owned the production license of the BredaMenarinibus brand buses since 2010, became the key foreign partner of the newly formed company. Currently IIA builds and markets a broad range of vehicles from 8 to 18 metres long and with all sizes and types of motive power. It is also the owner of the Padane brand, which is well known for its tourist vehicles
