Martignani Anniversary: sixty years of successes

It was the distant 1958. TV was still in black and white, internet was a mirage and travelling from Milan to Rome took twice as long. That same year, Claudio Martignani, founder of the homonymous company based in S. Agata sul Santerno (Ravenna), imported the first pneumatic misters in Italy, designed in 1948 in the Netherlands. Those machines - Martignani was certain of it - would soon change pesticide treatments forever. There was no comparison with the systems then in use: the pneumatic system, without dripping, saved 90% of water, 30% of chemicals, and 70% of processing times. Despite the perplexity of many insiders, Claudio Martignani remained firm in his convictions, namely that this was the technology of the future, and in 1972 he obtained from the Dutch manufacturers the go-ahead to produce pneumatic misters in the Martignani plant, which at the time was in Lugo. Over time, the original models were implemented wiht the innovations made by the Italian manufacturer. Just to mention one of the most successful patents, the technology for the electrostatic charge of microdroplets dates back to 1981, and it not only allowed a significant reduction in the losses from drift, but it cut the use of chemicals by a further 15%. In the years that followed, the company launched successful technologies, so cutting-edge that the Ravenna-based team, which had meanwhile transferred its headquarters to S. Agata sul Santerno, was awarded 22 prestigious prizes in Italy and abroad. Award-winning Duo Wind Jet is just the latest one. Without mix recirculation, thanks to the anti-drift and anti-chemical residue effect, this technology has won five awards between 2013 and 2017, also winning in 2018 the competition “Vota In Vigneto” at the event “Enovitis in Campo”. Today, 60 years after that distant 1958, Martignani still has in its DNA the desire to experiment and innovate that moved its founder, and that allowed the company to become one of the leading market players. A success story told by Claudio Martignani and his son Stefano (now co-owner of the company) in the book entitled “The power of an idea and of innovation”, presented on November 8 at EIMA International during the sixty-year anniversary celebration.