Giovanni Petrin made it a real motto.  He began as a child, in times of war, to recover metals to make them the business of a lifetime. He understood the resource of alloys that came from the disposal of engines and post-war military vehicles, so together with his brothers he began to buy directly at military auctions, creating a company that specialized in the recovery of metals to be resold to foundries or steel mills, a few years later they united a production of aluminum ingots by purchasing an oven.

In the years to come together they created a company group, setting up another company that was among the first in Italy that understood the importance and the space that stainless steel would have in the production of our territory. Buying directly from the French and German steel mills, they became a real power in the trade of semi-finished stainless steel products, counting themselves as the main suppliers of companies such as De Longhi and Zoppas in Treviso and supplying entire areas such as Lumezzane in Brescia and Omegna in Verbania. With the inclusion of a third metal scrap trading company

led the group to invoice around 20 billion a year between the 1980s and 1990s.  

The group split in the mid-90s but both could not read the speculative bubble of 2008 which heavily infected the metals sector and had to close.

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