- OMSP Macola was established in Padua in the early 1970s by Giuseppe and Ferruccio Macola.
- OMSP Macola began by manufacturing pumps and measuring instruments for tank trucks designed to transport flammable and petroleum substances.
- At around this time, a new alternative fuel Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) came onto the market. OMSP Macola recognised the importance of this product because of its new properties which were better for the environment. Thus we began to focus on designs for LPG and this led in 1978 to OMSP Macola bringing out the first LPG trucks for road transportation.
- To do this, the company needed more space and equipment so we expanded to a second factory near Padua’s industrial zone.
- We soon consolidated our position in the market, stopped manufacturing goods for the petroleum sector, and started to specialise in making self-supporting tanks for transporting liquefied gases by road.
- We began to manufacture for the European market and were soon known throughout most of Europe, the Middle East and Northern Africa.
- Our speciality became high quality technology, and we were validated by the sector’s most important inspection bodies: TÜV Germany, TÜV Austria, DNV Norway, DRIRE France, BUREAU VERITAS Spain, LLOYD’S REGISTER, ISCIR Romania and many other organisations including Greek, Czeck, Slovenian, Bulgarian etc.
- Design expanded to include sea transportation in agreement with IMO and RINA, and train transportation in agreement with FS, SNCF and BAM.
- 1997 was a turning point for OMSP Macola because we moved offices (600 m2) and production plant (4,200 m2) to a new site of 23,000 m2 in the industrial zone of Saonara near Padova, 800 m from the exit to Padua’s industrial zone on the Venice-Bologna motorway.
- Today production is more efficient and we are expanding into new markets.
- In 2005 OMSP Macola opened a subsidiary in Romania for the maintenance and servicing of our large fleet of gas tankers sold in eastern Europe.
- Today we are ISO 9001 certified, have doubled the surface with a second workshop and office building on the Saonara site and have become a leader at EU level in the gas road tanker industry with a production of approximately 150 gas road tankers per year, for LPG, CO2, LIN, LAR LOX transport. This production is exported throughout Europe and in parts of Africa and the Middle East.
