Main Events

1939	Guglielmo Coppola contributes to the foundation of Fiam
1944	Mauro Coppola was born
1960	FIAM installs the first escalator manufactured in Italy at Milan Trade Fair
1966	Mauro Coppola penetrates the elevators sector following his father in FIAM; even if he was very young, he quickly proved his excellence
1973	Mauro Coppola marries Panzanini Liviana
1985	Coppola Guglielmo dies - FIAM is sold to Kone
1995	Mauro Coppola founds TECNO intending to resume from where FIAM was left
1997	Mauro Coppola breaks new ground to Asia and TECNO becomes multinational.
2002	Fabrizio Coppola creates, within TECNO, the "Services Department".
2006	TECNO MMG is born in Bucharest, Romania
2008	TECNO IRAN BRANCH was born
2009	TECNO was chosen by the Government Commission to represent Italy, by excellence at EXPO 2010 Shanghai
2010	TECNO UK, new borne of the TECNO Group
2011	TECNO Palestine is borne with its head offices in Ramallah

1939
The young executive, the Spanish Engineer Stigler in Milan, had an intuition that in future the world will have to cope with a continuously increasing market of construction hence elevators and therefore he established an Italian firm that operate in the field of FIAM (Fabbrica Italiana Ascensori Montacarichi)(Italian Factory of Elvators and Lifts Manufacturing). At the moment of establishing the firm, he decides to work alongside a friend, Guglielmo Coppola, a man of strong personality endowed with commercial capabilities as to cope with the challenge.

1944
At the end of the Second World War, when Milan was sporadically bombed by "Pippo" the small German airplane which was launching the last bombs before putting and end to the wartime events, Milano Mauro Coppola, the future founder and Chairman of the TECNO Group, was born.

1960
After the success obtained FIAM in the post war period witnessing the company's rapidly imposing as an Italian Factory manufacturing the best elevators, which become the market leader, Fiam, as e premiere on the Italian market, establishes a Department for the production of escalators.
FIAM, invests in this new production dedicating the best technicians to the development of the final product and to install the first escalator in the premises of the Trade Fair, at that time and for many years ahead the most important Exhibition Fair in Italy followed by the entire world for market innovations. It was a success, the escalators and the mobile wallpapers FIAM soon became a reference point for the world wide production for the quality of the product, the robustness and versatility. Even nowadays, after 50 years form that date, there are many FIAM escalators working perfectly world-wide, from the Milan underway to that of Hong Kong apart from numerous commercial centers.

1966
Mauro Coppola after a training period starts operating within a commercial environment soon acquiring prestigious woks results. At the same time he devoted himself to his favorite sport, the sailing and rapidly becomes an interesting team of the Italian Sailing Federation which selects him as a prospect Italian representative at the Olympics. The sailing board of Mauro Coppolais, a regatta is named Flying Duchtman, boat driven by two persons that have to combine athletic capabilities with strategy as to emerge in regattas, always with many competitors competing for. Mauro suddenly has a vision of all the complex variants that influence the velocity of the craft and the regatta runs at its best.

1973
Liviana Panzanini, Mauro Coppola’s wife, she is the daughter of arts in her turn in the sense that her father, the Commendatore Alberto Panzanini, was the technical Executive and General Manager of FIAM in the years that FIAM became the Italian leader in the sector grace to the technical development and which had as a consequence the reaching of excellence in the production quality. Form their matrimony Fabrizio Coppola and Linda Coppola were born, both successfully involved nowadays in the family business, representing the 3rd generation; they married in their turn and had sons namely Coppola Tommaso and Coppola Azzurra from Fabrizio and Sampietro Federico and Sampietro Giulia from Linda, which guarantees the existence of the 4th generation involved in the family business.

1985
Guglielmo, the ancestor and the sole owner of and the founder FIAM dies. The Spanish Engineer, by the time old enough, decides to accept the best sale offer from Finlandese Kone, selling the firm and the use of mark of FIAM. Mauro Coppola remains with FIAM as a reference manger, but new events emerge.

1995
Following the sale of FIAM to Kone many issues in the management of FIAM are subject to alterations up to the point that Mauro Coppola decides to found TECNO, firm which start with the precise intent of replace the mark FIAM to continue where FIAM was stopped because of the sale to Kone. The consolidated experience of the elevators sector of Mauro Coppola and the adhesion to the project of several historical managers of FIAM, allow the company to start form zero only as a brand, while the technical, commercial and marketing teams enjoy the past successful experience.

1997
Mauro Coppola intuits that the progressing globalization may result in unbelievable developments in short time; as a result Tecno acquires a participation in a Chinese firm, where certain industrial processing are performed. The quality control of the production process adopted in this self operating production unit bring benefits to the marketing activity in terms of report quality/price and commercial aggressiveness as well. This production unit, born to assemble escalators, enlarges it activity along the time ending up in the production of MRL elevators and subsequently rapid elevators gamma type.

2002
Coppola Fabrizio, who had been working with TECNO since 1996, who became member of CDA is the promoter of the “Department of Services”. It is now obvious that the evolution of the market requires that the service rendered to the final client should comprise a post sale activity as well, -intended as maintenance and repairs of the new machines furnished, such as to guarantee the full efficiency of the products sold, guaranteeing the correct maintenance and use of the spare parts. The Department Services requires a capillary technical organization independently of the activity of sale and installation of the new machines, as to guarantee rapidity and quality of intervention. Both solutions are provided TECNO, who offers it own clients , where necessary, a 360° service.

2006
The fall of Berlin wall, even though it occurred many years ago, gave rise to economic development of Eastern Europe. Mauro Coppola and his Fabrizio, realized that, in order to offer services at 360° as required by the market, it was the appropriate time to establish a new branch TECNO in Romania named TECNO MMG. TECNO MMG represented by Mr. Lentu, a big expert of the Romanian market who, apart form being involved in the escalators business from many years, has as an objective exporting in Romania first and in the vicinity nations afterwards the successful formula of TECNO. TECNO MMG quickly became the market leader in the escalators market in Romania climbing the summit of the most competitive local firms in the field of elevators. The launching of this branch will trigger the need that Fabrizio Coppola, in his capacity of legal representative of TECNO MMG, dedicates himself for more than a year , to such management in compliance with the provisions.

2008
TECNO, already affirmed as a multinational firm which exports anywhere in the world, cares for gathering every business opportunity which may arise. Following a regular export activity in Iran, during several years by the help of a local provider locale, Mauro Coppola manages to establish a deep friendship and collaboration relationship with Mr. Irandoust, Iranian who having studied and worked in Italy, reconcile the expectations of the great Italian entrepreneur with the local reality in Iran. So TECNO IRAN BRANCH was born, having the headquarters at Teheran having as an aim the consolidation of the activity carried out up to present in Iran, but mostly to increase and develop as to become the reference leading firm.

2009
The international Trade Fair EXPO 2010 will take place at Shanghai in China, from the 1st May to 31st October 2010.
Within the environment of such an important demonstration which held 78 billion visitors, Italy has initiated the engineering works for “Palazzo Italia” (The Palace of Italy), a futuristic building conceived in such a way to show the visitors and the entire world , the excellence of Italy in technology to stand for excellence in the production of elevators and escalators if an Italian company, word-wide.

2010
TECNO UK, new borne of the TECNO Group, confirms with its immediate success that the market welcomes new industrial entities also in countries with high industrial standings as UK, under the condition that they are professionally unexceptionable. TECNO UK, although just borne, thanks to the ability of the local professional management and to the technical and marketing support of the Italian mother company, rapidly wins an important role on the UK market

2011
TECNO Palestine is borne with its head offices in Ramallah; the company has reached immediate success thanks to the expertise of the local partner who was supported, as usual, by the Italian mother company. The results of TECNO Palestine confirm that good results are always connected to the quality of the offered products and the services. Mauro Coppola, president and Fabrizio Coppola, CEO of the TECNO Group are happy to confirm that an important world wide straightening of the TECNO Group in the last years has occurred thanks to the adopted strategy:
- The Family Company keeps as most important focus Customer Satisfaction
- TECNO with its marketing oriented approach addresses its clients to their needs also allowing the Customisation of the Offering thanks to the flexible conception of its industrial structure
- TECNO is in the condition of anticipating the market requests by proposing distribution solutions fitting the market needs evolution.