History
1963 - 1979
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1963
The Foundation
MCS was incorporated by Gino Chiappini, who will eventually become the Board Chairman and Angelo Cagnazzo, a technical manager.
Today the management and administrative support services is providing by its founding members heirs and a team of trusted collaborators.
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1965
The covered area of the production departments reaches 1200 square meters.
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1967
MCS manufactures its very first dyeing machine.
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1968
Gino Chiappini and his brother-in-law Italo Pilenga incorporate Europizzi, a third-party textile dye-house, finisher and manufacturer of textile auxiliaries in Urgnano (BG).
Today, it is one of the largest Italian dyeing industries with 20,000 kg knits and 50,000 m wovens per day. Today the company is still owned by the Chiappini and Pilenga families and is managed by Italo’s two sons, Paolo and Carlo, along with Mr Roberto Lecchi.
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1971
ITMA Paris
Presentation of the first model of low-temperature atmospheric jet unit at ITMA Paris.
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1974
MCS starts developing and manufacturing continuous lines for open-width woven fabrics. It starts manufacturing and selling the first continuous washing, bleaching and mercerizing systems.
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1979
ITMA Hannover
MCS presents JET HT, OVERFLOW MO/80 BT and MRS65
1983 - 1999
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1983
ITMA Milan
MCS presents MT26, a tubular mercerizing line; SOFT-FLOW SF82 and OVER-FLOW OF83, low and high-temperature horizontal rope dyeing machines; COMBY JIGGER, a high-temperature open-width dyeing machine for; WASHING RANGE WR, a modular rope scouring, bleaching and washing line.
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1987
ITMA Paris
MCS presents Pandora, a special vertical rope dyeing machine for processing terry towelling.
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1990
The floor area of production departments reaches 35,000 square metres totalling an overall surface area of 55,000 square metres. The company’s export markets cover the five continents.
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1991
ITMA Hannover
MCS presents TORNADO, a rope tumbler, MAXI & MID JIGGER, low-temperature open-width dyeing machines and LAVAPRINT, and after-print washing system for high production volumes.
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1995
ITMA Milan
MCS presents SOFT-FLOW SF100, a horizontal rope dyeing machine, LONGHORN, a round-shaped rope dyeing machine, PUMEX, a wet sueding machine, WR SOFT, a modular rope scouring, bleaching and washing line with independent motors.
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1999
ITMA Paris
MCS presents MULTIFLOW, a high-temperature single-rope rope dyeing machine, SOFTFLOW, SF100EVO, a horizontal rope-dyeing machine with an additional MST tank and ELECTRONIC COMBY JIGGER, a high-temperature open-width dyeing machine for wovens.
2000 - 2015
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2000
Termoelettronica joins the MCS group.
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2003
ITMA Birmingham
MCS presents MULTIFLOW SUPERIOR, a round-shaped single-rope-rope dyeing machine, equipped with downtime reduction service MQD and quick drain system, SILUROECOTURBO, a dyeing machine with beam featuring inside-outside and outside-inside liquor transfer flow.
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2005
MCS presents the prototype of UNIVERSAL DYEING, a cylindrical rope-dyeing machine.
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2007
ITMA Munch
MCS presents UNIVERSAL DYEING, FIRST VENTO, a circular air/water dyeing machine, MISTRAL, a finishing tumbler tumbler for woven fabrics, COLTEX SYSTEMS, spectrophotometric fabric control systems by Termoelettronica, New VDA, a laboratory system meant to monitor all dyeing process parameters.
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2008
MCS presents ITALICA, a new horizontal dyeing machine featuring a low liquor ration and internal handling of the nozzle– drive reel dyeing system.
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2011
ITMA Barcellona
MCS presents STARWASH, an open-width washing line for delicate fabrics, COMBY JIGGER H.T. CJ143, a high-temperature open-width dyeing with new tension and operation control systems, DYNAMICA, a horizontal rope-dyeing machine with a new multi-suction and product introduction system.
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2013
MCS installs the biggest continuous bleaching line ever manufactured in its factories, featuring a working speed of 80 m/min. They also launch on the market SMARTFLOW, a dyeing machine with a round-shaped tank featuring a dyeing system inside the machine body.
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2015
ITMA Milan
MCS presents MULTIWASH, compact and versatile washing and bleaching line in rope form; STAWRWASH-FS , open-width tension-less scouring box; DYNAMICA SPRINT a round rope-dyeing machine with a patented multi-suction and product introduction system.
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2019
ITMA Barcellona