From a refractory trading house founded in 1949 to a fully integrated manufacturing group — growing brand by brand, plant by plant, without ever changing hands.
Selected milestones from over seven decades — trading first, then manufacturing, then acquisition of historic Italian refractory brands.
The first company of the Group is founded, trading and distributing refractory materials in Italy.
From trader to manufacturer: the first Levate production facility is built (later INFO 1).
A second plant at Levate (INFO 2) doubles monolithics capacity.
The Levate operations consolidate into Linco Baxo Industrie Refrattari SpA; products organised into the LINCO, BAXO and KERO ranges.
First refractory company in Italy accredited to ISO 9001 — quality certified ever since.
Linco Baxo International Ltd is established for worldwide distribution.
The Arcene site is built for raw material processing — today also the Group warehouse and logistics hub.
Linco Baxo Benelux BV is incorporated — today our subsidiary in Tilburg (NL), serving Northern Europe.
Acquisition of MAREF SpA in Bondeno brings dense bricks and tunnel-kiln firing into the Group.
Maref merges into Linco Baxo; TECREF precision operations move to Zerbinate.
A third high-temperature tunnel kiln is commissioned at Bondeno.
A five-year modernisation programme begins: robotized pressing, extrusion and pre-assembly platforms across the Italian plants.
Acquisition of the SIRMA SpA assets and trademarks (SIRMA 95 AT, SIRCAST, SIRBRATE); launch of LICO-DRY and Alpor IFB; in-house metallic anchor production begins.
A family-owned group with five locations, customers in over 100 countries, and the complete refractory range under one roof.
The original monolithics ranges — castables, vibrated and self-flowing mixes developed since the 1970s.
Dense and insulating bricks from Bondeno — a historic Italian brick maker, part of the Group since 2003.
Precision slipcast specials for the glass industry, produced at Zerbinate since 2007.
Kiln car and kiln furniture quality — SIRMA 95 AT, SIRCAST and SIRBRATE lines, acquired in 2018.
Five locations, from the Milan head office to the plants and the Benelux subsidiary.