Ferroli 🇮🇹

Ferroli is above all a boiler house, but with a relationship with Spain so old that it deserves its own entry. Dante Ferroli, son of a Friulian who worked with iron and copper, founded the company in 1955 in San Bonifacio (Verona), when the first steel sheet gas boiler for social housing in the Borgo Roma district of Verona came out of his workshop. In 1964, to bypass the customs barriers of the Franco regime and take advantage of industrialization aid for depressed areas, he created Ferroli Spain in Burgos: it was its first factory outside Italy and remains one of the group's main plants.

Heating was later joined by radiators, burners, and a full line of air conditioners and heat pumps, which in Spain are sold through the brand’s installer network. At its peak the group exceeded 500 million euros in turnover with 2,200 employees, fourteen plants in Italy and factories in Spain, Turkey, Poland, Germany, China and Vietnam; in 2004 Confindustria Verona awarded it its prize for creativity and innovation. Dante Ferroli died in April 2015 at the age of 85. That same autumn, overwhelmed by debt, the company signed a restructuring with the banks whereby Oxy Capital and Attestor funds took 60 % of the capital and the family retained 40 %; with Riccardo Garrè at the helm since 2019, Ferroli returned to profit.

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It has not been possible to determine the start of Ferroli's air‑conditioning line or confirm which climate products are manufactured in Burgos.

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