SACE and Banco BPM support ASG Superconductors SpA, Ligurian company world leader in the production of magnets for research, nuclear fusion and industrial applications through the issue of a guarantee worth 5,6 million euro for the benefit of the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI), the German research institute with public participation.
Thanks to the operation, in fact, the company will produce a series of superconducting magnets commissioned by GSI, engaged in the implementation of the European project FAIR (Facility for Antipron and Ion Research), i.e. one of the most extensive and sophisticated particle accelerators in the world. for the study of high-energy physics.
The quality and the highest level technology of ASG magnets, designed and produced in Italy, will contribute to the realization of one of the largest international research projects, which will lead to the acquisition of new knowledge on the origin of matter and the evolution of the universe.
ASG Superconductors SpA, a company owned by Davide and Mattia Malacalza through the companies Hofima SpA and Luleo SA, it has developed historical technological excellence in the design and manufacture of superconducting magnets for research in high-energy physics, for fusion energy, systems and magnets for the optimization of electric networks and for medical applications such as magnetic resonance and hadrontherapy (cancer treatment).
ASG has in the past developed and produced the LHC accelerator magnets for CERN in Geneva and of the Atlas and CMS detectors which led to the discovery of the Higgs boson and is currently building the largest and most sophisticated toroidal coils in the world at its plant in La Spezia for ITER, the largest international scientific experiment aimed at demonstrating the potential of fusion energy, renewable, safe and which replicates the same process of the Sun and the stars on the earth. Furthermore, ASG is also collaborating with other research centers in the USA, Russia and South Korea.
“With the guarantee on the Advanced Payment Bond, – he declared Emanuele Lertora Chief Executive Officer of Asg Superconductors SpA – we can best face the management and production challenges associated with the GSI FAIR project. This is a textbook example of synergy in the country system: thanks to the support of SACE and a leading banking institution such as Banco BPM, in fact, our company has proven to be competitive on an international scenario and has been able to better manage all aspects , including the financial one, of a complex international order, with effective benefits, also for the many related suppliers, mostly Italian”.
“Our intervention – he underlines Enrica Delgrosso Mid Corporate Manager of the North-West of SACE – has allowed an all-Italian technological excellence such as Asg Superconductor SpA to be at the forefront of the FAIR project which will give prestige to our manufacturing. SACE is proud to support the activities of the company, which represents a point of reference in Europe in such an important sector as that of technological innovation and scientific research”.
"This operation completed together with SACE has made it possible to place our professionalism at the service of an all-Italian excellence such as ASG Superconductors Spa", he added Fabrizio Marchetti Head of the North West Corporate Market of Banco BPM. “Our qualities and our projection towards companies, in fact, are expressed in an ideal way in supporting the achievements of Italian entrepreneurship which, as in this case, are located along the most advanced frontier of innovation. The ASG Superconductors project is intended for a large European program which will expand knowledge on the use of energy, generating important benefits also for the Italian SMEs supplying related industries. We are truly proud to have been able to offer our contribution to the growth of this extraordinary company".
