With ongoing international travel restrictions and limited visits to the company, SOSITALIA consequently produced a factory tour video of its facilities located in Borgomanero, Italy, to familiarize and a visually demonstrate its services to old and new customers worldwide.

The 3-minute video, presented by Founder and Owner of SOSITALIA Srl Giovanni Pitturru, reveals the essential operations within the establishment for the supply of components, semi-finished and fully-assembled products in brass, zamak and stainless steel, accentuating the importance of QC procedures with the use of vital testing equipment and applications.

The tour allows viewers the opportunity to witness SOSITALIA’s growth and development specifically in the last, most challenging decade.

It features the three main buildings on Via dell’ Acacia, accommodating the Headquarters and SOSITTECH offices in M1, SOSITALIA warehouse and assembly lines in M2, and most recent UNIQ-Ǝ! innovation facility dedicated to SOSITALIA’s metal 3D printing division and additive manufacturing laboratory in M3.

The short video footage covers the 6.500 m2 SOSITALIA territory, offering an inside-look into the routine operations that showcase the type of products and services SOSITALIA proposes to all its clients around the world.

 For any further information or queries, please feel free to contact us directly at +39 (0)322 834477 / email us at info@sositalia.com

da Natascha Jacobsen

By the end of 2020, SOSITALIA had already started to incorporate new, young professionals to join, follow and lead us into 2021. With strong intentions of bursting into the new year with positive and dynamic force, having successfully conquered the COVID-19 challenges of 2020, SOSITALIA signed on a range of six young and enthusiastic talent that will surely bring fresh perspectives to the table as well as positive energy for the upcoming year.

Ranging from Zoomers to Millennials to Generation X, not all new team players are apprenticeship positions. Important roles have been given at managerial and strategic levels while other roles have been filled for entry-level positions.

SOSITALIA president Giovanni Pitturru says, “Newcomers are highly motivated and eager to make a difference. I believe they can revitalize the workplace and that the younger generations have a better ability to adapt faster to change. They have a natural affinity to quickly understand different technologies which differentiates them from other generations.”

SOSITALIA  hopes that these new employees bring great enthusiasm to the business and that they will be able to put their skills into practice and strengthen their work experience. Giovanni claims, “Without enthusiasm, you cannot generate adequate productivity nor encourage collaborative team-work. We look forward to seeing our teams develop and expand in all departments both giving and receiving support from each other.”

SOSITALIA is proud to present its  most recent arrivals:

Mauro Salvador

Purchase Manager since September 2020

With almost 13 years of purchasing experience behind him, Mauro came into SOSITALIA charged with energy and motivation, ready to negotiate and conquer international purchasing challenges.

In addition to Italian, he also speaks English and has quickly integrated into our international network. In fact, Mauro is looking forward to packing his suitcase and touring China and the rest of Asia in search of new suppliers and resources, which will hopefully be feasible in 2021.

Mauro is an avid reader and when he’s not buried in a book, you can find him at the stove practicing his culinary skills. Filling his lungs with air and pumping blood in his veins, he cycles or treks in the great outdoors surrounding the Alps.

Michael Donia

Amministration & IT since November 2020

Michael is our new-entry in the accounting department and will also undertake IT-related issues to support and resolve software maintenance or updates within the company for all employees.

In July 2020 Michael graduated from ITIS Leonardo da Vinci high school in Borgomanero with a diploma in administration, finance and marketing.

In his spare time, Michael plays defense for the Borgomanero football team, runs and cycles to keep in shape and aims to be hopefully back to the gym in 2021 when they reopen. He is a huge fan of the British period gangster series “Peaky Blinders” and has notably bad Karma with vending machines.

Jessica Tomasini

QA-R&D Technical Assistant since November 2020

From assembly to design, we’ve welcomed Jessica into our offices to take on more crucial roles that cements our SOSITALIA quality standard reputation.

With a high school diploma in Architecture & Environment from Liceo Artistico Felice Casorati, Jessica is eager to also show off her designing skill sets and we look forward to seeing her career develop further. She is a burst of energy for our technical department and approaches each project with great enthusiasm. Jessica has a passion for “engines”, especially motorbikes, and has been doing CrossFit for many years. She believes a character that represents her greatly is Top Gun’s Maverick; cocky, brave, and very likable.

Jessica was attracted to working in SOSITALIA by “the great collaboration behind the production of every single item” as well as “by the ability to see in perspective and identify with the future of the company.”

Of her hopes and dreams Jessica says, “I hope that every committed moment will be appreciated and that, together with the consideration of colleagues, it will lead to many advantages in favor of both the company as well as my own personal growth and satisfaction.”

Luca Donzelli

Assembly and purchasing assistant since December 2020

Although a new-entry level position in SOSITALIA, Luca is a fundamental link to our production chain, guaranteeing the timely arrival of component supply required in production and assembly.

SOSITALIA has offered him to endeavor into a brand new position that will improve supply flow, and when asked what attracted Luca to taking on this position, he said, “The role I was offered matched my own characteristics and seemed very interesting right from the start.”

Luca was keen to join the SOSITALIA team as he says,“From the first interview, I realized that  I could have the opportunity to work with professional people willing to teach me how best to do the job.”

Luca graduated in 2020 with a high school diploma in administration, finance and marketing from the C. Wojtyla Institute in Cassano Magnago. He enjoys travelling, gardening, cooking and sport in general, particularly football, to which he reveals himself as an AC Milan supporter. Luca also plays defense in the Borgomanero Football Academy alongside Michael.

Ivan Prelli

Business Development Manager since Dicember 2020

SOSIT TECH, a division of SOSITALIA, is being conducted by our new business development manager Ivan Prelli. Between Ivan’s strong charisma and his noteworthy professionalism, we firmly believe that he will introduce considerable business potential to SOSITALIA beyond the faucet industry in 2021.

Ivan speaks both Italian  and English fluently and worked for over 2 years in Onne, Port Harcourt and Ibadan, as project leader of a unique and high-quality construction company in Nigeria.

In his free time, Ivan doesn’t mess around; he’s a road biker, practices CrossFit, Enduro & motocross, and his “born to be wild” passion drove him to motorbike across Africa (Nigeria, Togo, Benin, Ghana, Senegal, Niger, Cameroon, Congo). On one of his 4500km trips, from Nigeria to Niger and lower part of Sahara desert, Ivan experience a brutal reality of Africa when he was kidnapped for a day and robbed of almost everything he had. However, it didn’t stop him from saddling up for another 3500 km bike trip from Nigeria to Ghana, crossing Benin and Togo. Ivan declares himself a Sneaker Collector and has the best collection of brightly-colored socks.

Ingegnere Andrea Medina

Chief Technical Officer (CTO) since January 2021

With a BA degree in Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical engineering from the Politecnico di Milano, Andrea is not afraid of a challenge but actually welcomes it.

He assumes the position of Chief Technical Officer (CTO) and manages of the R&D and QC departments so that SOSITALIA continues to have more room and adequate time for newer, more innovative projects for all three divisions; SOSITALIA, SOSIT TECH and UNIQ-Ǝ!

Andrea met Giovanni in 2016 when he had entered the additive manufacturing world from the aeronautic industry. Both he and Giovanni shared a common enthusiasm towards the immense potential that metal 3D printing was bringing to the various industries. “We shared some thoughts about its application in SOS business. Now it is time to join the SOS team and support their ambitious growth plans.”

When not managing his father’s vineyard, producing wine for an elite customer range, Andrea’s passion is traveling to new countries and learning about new cultures.

In March 2019, SOSITALIA SRL participated at ISH Frankfurt with the SOSIT TECH division, exhibiting innovative solutions for the sanitary fittings industry, both in terms of shapes as well as materials.

SOSITALIA SRL intention was to present alternative raw materials such as 316L stainless steel, casted zamak bodies, as well as successfully exhibiting faucets produced with the non-traditional technique of additive production, metal 3D printing.

SOSIT TECH has achieved extraordinary success and the guests, astonished and intrigued by the products on display, appreciated the beauty of the shapes of the taps obtained through this technique of metal 3D printing.

In the months following the exhibition at ISH, SOSITALIA SRL has continued to explore new bathroom and kitchen faucet design possibilities that can be achieved with the most advanced industrial metallic 3D printers currently being used principally for aerospace and automobile industries but which today through SOSIT TECH offer freedom of shape and design to the faucet industry.

SOSITALIA SRL celebrates 25 years of business. 25 years were spent as a partner of the most prestigious companies operating in the sanitary fittings production and its components. To celebrate this anniversary, SOSITALIA SRL launches the project  – EA BONA – (ACQUA BUONA/GOOD WATER)

New technologies and new uses of materials in the production of faucets and related components.

To celebrate SOSITALIA SRL 25 years of business, SOSITALIA SRL launches the ÈA BONA Project – (Acqua Buona/Good Water) in order to contribute towards the arising problems from national and international institutions concerning updated regulations on drinking water and environment protection.

“ÈA BONA” means GOOD WATER in the Sardinian Galluerese dialect, synonymous with spring water and therefore pure, natural water. Gallura, Sardinia is the place of origin of Giovanni Pitturru, owner of SOSITALIA.

The introduction of increasingly stringent norms in the use of some materials commonly used in the production of faucets and its components (lead, nickel, chromium), require significant changes to sanitary fittings manufacturers in the field of Public Health and Environment protection.

SOSITALIA SRL with the startup of the “ÉA BONA” (GOOD WATER) project wants to give its own contribution to the sanitary fittings industry to address the problems introduced by these regulations through new technologies and new uses of materials that are more sustainable for the environment and more suitable and healthy in the human consumption of drinking water.

Here are the proposals of our company:

PRODUCTION OF FAUCETS AND COMPONENTS THROUGH PRECISION CASTING IN STEEL 316L / 1.4404

New production boundaries are opening with this technology. Stainless steel 316L/1.4404 has no intolerable migration of alloying constituents like lead, nickel, chromium etc hence all the requirements of International Standards concerning drinking water for human consumption are met. Furthermore, by means of mirror polishing, a finish similar to chrome plating can be obtained without using nickel and chrome. Moreover it is possible to obtain excellent finishes by painting and PVD.

PRODUCTION OF ZAMAK FAUCETS AND COMPONENTS

The technical evolution in the field of the sanitary fittings components production for zamak faucets has recently undergone a remarkable development that has brought very interesting results. The production of faucet bodies, even with complex shapes, together with the use of internal components in copper and steel to avoid contact between zamak and water, allow a lower use of raw material and a considerable saving in the various production processes and on the final production cost compared to the currently most used production system, that is, the one that uses brass. In addition, all the requirements of international drinking water standards for human consumption are met.

FINISHES

The finishes proposed are an alternative to galvanic treatments, nickel plating and chrome plating, which despite being traditionally used in the production of faucets, are now subject to strict regulations. They are steel MIRROR POLISHING, PAINTING and PVD. We also offer the PVD/DLC filtered PVD process (Diamond-Like-Carbon) never used previously in the faucet sector that guarantees hardness properties (about 5.300HV), and corrosion resistance even under particular conditions of use, such as highly saline environments, environments close to the sea, naval applications and laboratories.