The history of Bonomi has been made through a century of “craft mania” and entrepreneurial spirit. Generation after generation, each leaving the ambition to improve by continuous, patient and transversal research, rigorous quality control, keeping pace with the evolution of technology, untiring daily efforts nurtured by sobriety.
1927 – the first years of the century are those of Bonomi Giuseppe Fu Vittorio, foundry and manufacturer of brass products. So many sacrifices, fatigue in every sense, journeys to discover far-off markets. Those markets repay the quality of the products and the tenacity of those that made them. In 1927 the company was awarded a diploma and gold medal at the Turin trade fair.
Bonomi grows and in the 30s converts by producing components for water heating and sanitary systems. In those years a strategic and winning choice is made: long-term continuous investment in the most up-to-date machinery. Self-sufficiency in production and technology has not prevented Bonomi from generating important satellite industries, thus creating greater employment. Many sons of the craftsmen who worked freelance for Bonomi are now managers in successful companies.
Leaving behind them the hard times of the war, in the mid-40s Bonomi expands and becomes a group: a forerunner of the times, the company becomes an enterprise-network showing its ability to look ahead. To achieve a competitive advantage the company stocks raw materials and thus reduces costs and promotes the creating of new enterprises for the production of accessories and semi-finished products.
The group leader is Idrosanitaria Bonomi, which becomes a reference point in the plumbing sector for the production of taps and fittings. Rationalisation of production and their sales organisation allow Bonomi to dedicate resources to what lies in their heart: quality intended in all its declinations, from materials, to the product, to services.
“Production today is not only making things but making sure that quality in production corresponds with quality in service”.
Bortolo Bonomi, COO
1960 – it’s the late 50s: a 17-year-old Giuseppe, Luigi Bonomi’s father, starts his career, first in the workshop, then travelling with his father, Bortolo Bonomi, throughout Europe while brothers Evaristo and Firmo take care of production. They are all young entrepreneurs who toil ceaselessly, with a strength that remains unchanged today. In 1968 Giuseppe takes his father’s place in managing the company with the unfailing support of his brothers. The entrepreneurial style inherited from his forebears is characterised by wise humbleness which drives him to a continuous comparison with more expert businessmen belonging to other production sectors. This way he learns from others and gains knowledge and experience. 1974 is the year in which Bonomi Metalli is established with the mission of trading raw materials. In 1996, the acquisition of INSA, a company producing bronze castings and now specialised in heating and sanitary components. The threshold of the third millennium sees the entry of a new group member, Metalli Pressati Bonomi, a company operating since 1905 in the chrome plated fittings sector.
“Ethics: that is, filling one’s life with significance giving the best of ourselves
Even when producing objects.”
Luigi Bonomi, CEO
The wish to “create” embodied in the wish to “produce” the new millennium could not but see Bonomi incarnate avant-garde design: c4 is the code name for the development project for a special range of taps and fittings. It is the wish to “create” embodied in the wish to “produce”, the talent of craftsmen expressing the Italian instinct for style.
The Bonomi signature and that of designer Sergio Mori appear on the birth certificate of Arco, for the first time proposing an innovative “flat spout” which has met with great success and nowadays is considered a paradigm in tap design.
Nowadays Bonomi represents a consolidated group and contemporary design brand for Italian taps and fittings.
· 2 production sites
· 25,000 square metres
· 96 employees
Bonomi is Italian
Bonomi has been an Italian family company for generations and all pieces carrying its signature have been manufactured and assembled in Italy. Bonomi is Italian instinct for style: it is design deriving from the wish to “create” embodied in the wish to “produce”. Bonomi is Italian, cosmopolitan, distinguished by its own fingerprint of style and at the same time open to comparison and the contamination of international design.
Bonomi is Contemporary
It is the tract of Bonomi style, capable of pondering archetypes of the past, re-proposing them with an Essential design that is contemporary because timeless. It is the tradition of craftsmanship fuelled by innovation and research: to offer what modern times ask by anticipating events. It is the interpretation of emotions and modern trends, going beyond fashion of the times.
Bonomi Guarantees Detail
ISO 9001 certification production is controlled using special equipment capable of detecting micro-leaks which would not show up with traditional means. Use of sophisticated callipers for measuring holes and threads. 100% inspection test on all pieces. Seal tests under pressure. Duration tests on all products. Control of cleaning with selection of pieces treated 100%. Strength tests on metals and components.
Bonomi is Quality Production and Rigorous Selection of Raw Materials
Constant development of chrome plating techniques for continuous improvement of the product’s aesthetic appearance and longer life of the finish. The finish is done in PVD for sanitised nickel and for gold which reaches a hardness 10 times greater than chrome (which is one of the hardest materials found in nature). Pieces are chrome plated using cycles that allow the application of nickel chrome, superior to European standards. Use of lead reduced to a minimum, to the advantage of the environment and quality of the product.
Bonomi Is Simple To Install Simple To Mount
Working with plumbers we have perfected a simple installation system, Bonomi have invented an exclusive system for the extraction of embedded sink and tub fittings.
Bonomi Is System
Compatible and versatile: Bonomi is made of essential elements designed to create free combinations, making all furnishings unique. A vast range, unique in its kind, with the possibility of interchanging spouts and levers, plates and roses without having to change the mixing groups.
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