Company Background / History

ITALCARRELLI®’s roots date back to 1962, when the entrepreneurial ability of Mr. A. Negrin identified the forklift as an essential product for industry.
In 1969 the first electronic forklifts were built; it was an innovative product for the time, which marked a significant step forward for the company on the market, inasmuch as the demand for this type of forklift trucks exceeded the demand for diesel engine forklifts, within a very short time.

At the beginning of the 1980s, the first specialty machines, such as side-loading forklifts for the wood industry and lift platforms for heavy loads, were introduced marking a further important step forward in the company development.
The high level of reliability of these prototypes marked the be¬ginning of a period of con¬stant growth in demand in the field of special forklifts. In the same period, the company started expand¬ing its market also beyond the national boundaries and began exporting front¬loading forklifts in Europe and overseas. 

From that period up to the present, Italcarrelli has continued to grow, developing more and more technological ma¬chines, with an important focus on the glass sector, to the point of creating the Italcarrelli Glass Division. Today, this impor¬tant division is totally com¬mitted to the research, de-velopment and production of special machinery for the handling of flat glass. 
The company is now a global player in the flat glass industry, thanks to the use of the most recent technologies - such as optical and ultra¬sound sensors, touchscreen and dedicated software de¬veloped by Italcarrelli – and to important in¬vestments allowing Italcarrelli to develop machines without operators on board – AGV machines - ever more requested by today’s market and of course Industry 4.0.