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1929 by a specially incorporated transmission lines and railway institute played a leading role
company, Electro Verre. systems. Its Brazilian subsidiary, in developing one of the most
In 1947, the application of Electrovidro, was set up during demanding production process-
the thermal toughening process this period. es in terms of quality: optical
to glass insulators resulted in The establishment of two glass.
a product offering exceptional joint ventures in China took In 1940, the Institute became
performance, enabling the com- place in 1993: Sediver Zigong, part of Italy’s most important
pany to achieve international specialising in the assembly of state-owned industrial group,
success. glass insulators, and the Safam IRI, which was involved in the
Automated production lines Zigong foundry, manufacturing manufacturing of optical prod-
were introduced ten years later, malleable cast iron components. ucts for the military on behalf of
in 1957. This was followed in In October 2002, Sediver was the Navy, and took on the name
1959 by the merger of Electro taken over by Vetroarredo, a S.a.i.v.o., specializing in glass
Verre and Charbonneux, which company with a young-sound- tiles (mosaics), ceramic enamel
led to the creation of Sediver. ing name, but with an equally and tableware.
Having established itself in long and prestigious history. In 1990, Fidenza Vetraria, a
the French insulator market, Vetroarredo’s origins date back long-established Italian producer
the 1960s saw the company to 1928 when, on the initiative of glass insulators, lighting glass
embark on its first internation- of Prince Pietro Ginori Conti, and tableware, took the compa-
al joint ventures. New prod- the Istituto Sperimentale per ny private. From the 1920s on,
ucts were launched during the lo Studio e l’Applicazione dei Fidenza Vetraria had also begun
1970s, including a full range of Prodotti del Boro e del Silicio producing a form of glass brick,
composite insulators for power was established in Florence. This better known as ‘glass blocks’ or

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