MERMEC S.p.A. is an Italian company focused in the development of rail transport technologies (signalling, measurement trains and systems, electric traction and telecommunications) and industrial applications.[1]
Today, MERMEC employs 2,300 people [2] (of which more than 1,400 are engineers) and it is present with its solutions in 73 countries worldwide.[3]
MERMEC subsidiaries include MERMEC Inc. (USA), MERMEC France, MERMEC Australia Pty Ltd and MER MEC JAPAN G.K.[4]
History
Prior to becoming a joint-stock company in 1988, MER MEC was known as Meridional Meccanica, which began in the 1960s. Meridional Meccanica began making railway maintenance vehicles in the early 1980s and after incorporating focused all of its attention to the railway market.
In the early 1990s MER MEC, in cooperation with the main Italian research institutes, developed an opto-electronic system for the automatic inspection of railway infrastructure conditions.