Company
It was the company’s founder Pietro Maierhofer who built the first 1 kW hydroelectric power station with parts he invented, and who shone the first incandescent light bulb in Proves in Val di Non in 1896.
On the strength of his many experiences, he founded a small mechanical workshop, with which he built his own hydroelectric power stations, supplying electricity to considerable villages.
With the succession of generations, knowledge was passed on and augmented with technology until these prototypes became true self-operating plants.
Today, the company has state-of-the-art, high-tech machinery that enables it to manufacture products of the highest quality.
- 1896
Pietro Maierhofer built his first hydroelectric power station and illuminated the interior of the small church in Proves for the first time.
- 1920
Pietro founded the current company in Valle di Non to build machinery for sawmills, grain mills and the construction of hydroelectric plants.
- 1982
Antonio Brida took over the company from his father and started to develop the first PLC-controlled plant projects.
- 2000
The development of the hydropower sector led the company to further specialise, improving the quality of its products by adding CNC machinery.
- 2010
Giulio, Antonio’s son, joins the company and also carries out the complete plant dimensioning and design in-house.
