The Landi Renzo Group started from an ingenious intuition ahead of its time. It was 1954, and after working as a mechanic in his brother’s workshop and repairing military vehicles during the war, Renzo Landi decided to install the necessary equipment in the buildings behind his house to produce components for converting cars to LPG or methane.
Natural gas: a winning bet
The idea of exploiting a growing market – that of natural gas – proved to be a winner, and the business experienced a particularly prosperous moment in the 1960s when Landi realised that the time had come to create a commercial network of workshops and installers for its systems. Soon, demand increased outside Italy: France, Belgium, Holland, and shortly afterwards, also Japan, Brazil, and India. Unfortunately, in 1977, Renzo Landi died prematurely, and the company’s management was taken over by his wife and, later, his son Stefano, who became Managing Director in 1987.
In the same year, the company became an S.P.A. In 2001, it acquired ISO quality certification and continued its international expansion, which began with the acquisition of a Dutch company in 1993. The beginning of the second millennium saw the opening of a subsidiary in Poland and a representative office in Beijing. Subsequently, growth expanded to Argentina, Venezuela, Iran, Pakistan, Romania, the United States, and Uzbekistan.
Stock market listing and Group growth
In 2007, the company went public and, to overcome the general crisis that was to spread a year later, expanded its offer to the field of infrastructure. With the acquisition of Safe, a company involved in the alternative compressor sector for natural gas and Clean Energy Compression, the group now offers the market a wide range of compressors, including those used in natural gas filling stations, as well as those for biomethane plants, and even industrial applications. At the same time, the company decided to enter the heavy-duty sector, again focusing on the use of natural gas. Finally, in 2021, LandiRenzo also launched into the hydrogen sector, both in the automotive and infrastructure fields, with the acquisition of Metatron and Idromeccanica.
Research and development for innovation and growth
In 2014, on the occasion of the company’s 60th anniversary, the new Technical Centre was inaugurated, a 15,000 m2 technology hub where cutting-edge solutions in ecological mobility are created. Investment in research and development of innovative technologies is a constant for the company, which has filed 91 patents over the years!
Today, Landi continues to innovate also thanks to important synergies with the most prestigious universities, international research centres, and companies that choose the group as their preferred supplier for emission tests, homologations, and applied research in the automotive field.
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