History

MESDAN is born

Sir Daniele Messa established the Mesdan company in Salò – a manufacturing workshop specialized in the production of textile hand knotters.

MESDAN became a qualified mechanical industry under the creative impulse of Sir Daniele Messa's son, Mr Pietro

The company became a qualified mechanical industry under the creative impulse of Sir Daniele Messa's son, Mr Pietro. 

During those years MESDAN was also very busy in developing reliable mechanical knotters to meet the needs of the new automatic winding machines.

Leading supplier of knotters

MESDAN became a consolidated industrial reality of international prestige, and – in 1975 – its corporate structure was changed into a S.p.A. (joint-stock company) corporate form.

Meanwhile MESDAN became the leading supplier of knotters to manufacturers of automatic winding machines all over the world.

Jointair® and Aquasplicer® trademarks

The 1980’s are characterized by the ‘knot free’ yarn joining technology (the so called “splicing” technology), and Mr Renato Zanca (successor to Mr Pietro Messa as Managing Director) led the company to the realisation of an innovative range of splicing devices, soon becoming internationally recognisable thanks to the Jointair® and Aquasplicer® trademarks.

Mr Zanca also decided to diversify the company activity by entering the business of textile laboratory equipment, to meet the growing demand for Testing and Quality control.

MESDAN LAB

MESDAN became established in the field of Laboratory equipment, and made commercial alliances with the most important companies in this sector. After the acquisition of Osvaldo Fessia’s Omac snc company – specialized in the production of Lab equipment for the control of yarns and fabrics – MESDAN opened its new division, known as MESDAN LAB, and started the production and marketing of a wide range of testing equipment.

UNI EN ISO 14001 and UNI EN ISO 9001

MESDAN obtained from Det Norske Veritas (DNV) two certifications: the UNI EN ISO 14001 Environmental Management System and the UNI EN ISO 9001 Quality Management System with validity for design, manufacture, and calibration of textile laboratory instruments.

60th anniversary, new MESDAN DYELAB line and Moistair®

MESDAN celebrated its 60th anniversary, and presented the new MESDAN DYELAB line, a series of equipment for the dyeing and finishing quality assessment.

At the same time, MESDAN yarn joining Divison launched the Moistair®, a unique technique for yarn joining, which soon became a wordwide success.

SAVIO

MESDAN joined the SAVIO group of companies – owned by Alpha Private equity.

Status of Calibration Laboratory (LAT) and launch of the CONTEST line

​Following its ISO 17025 audit and a series of important developments and achievements in the field of Laboratory testing MESDAN obtained the status of a Calibration Laboratory (LAT), the highest recognition for an equipment manufacturer.

In 2019 MESDAN launched also the CONTEST line, a set of sophisticated automatic instruments, for the classification of cotton fiber properties, and for the analysis of the stickiness behavior.

Complete revision of the dynamometer family

In the 2020s, Mesdan Lab has dedicated its R&D resources to the complete revision of the dynamometer family, the flagship of its LAB product proposal.

VANDEWIELE

SAVIO group was acquired by VANDEWIELE, Belgium, a world leader in mechatronics solutions to serve textile and electronics customers around the world.