MERMEC S.p.A. is an Italian company focused in the development of rail transport technologies (signalling, measurement trains and systems, electric traction and telecommunications) and industrial applications.[1] Today, MERMEC employs 1,400 people [2] (of which a thousand are engineers) and it is present with its solutions in 73 countries worldwide.[3]
MERMEC subsidiaries include MERMEC Inc. (USA), MERMEC France, MERMEC Australia Pty Ltd and MER MEC JAPAN G.K.[4]
History
Prior to becoming a joint-stock company in 1988, MER MEC was known as Meridional Meccanica, which began in the 1960s. Meridional Meccanica began making railway maintenance vehicles in the early 1980s and after incorporating focused all of its attention to the railway market.
In the early 1990s MER MEC, in cooperation with the main Italian research institutes, developed an opto-electronic system for the automatic inspection of railway infrastructure conditions. The 1990s also saw the prototype of the ROGER vehicle which is an acronym for Rilievo Ottico Geometria Rotaia, Italian for optical rail geometry control. In 1997 MER MEC produced the ROGER 1000, a self-propelled vehicle for rail track and overhead line inspection.
On June 17, 2023, MERMEC, led by the President Vito Pertosa, represented Italy at the G7 Transport Ministers' Meeting in Ise-Shima, Mie.[5][6][7]
G7 Transport Ministers' Meeting in Ise-Shima, Mie [3][4]
In 2024, MERMEC and Hitachi Rail signed a put option agreement for the sale of Hitachi Rail's main line signalling business in France and its signalling business units in Germany and the UK.[8]
MER MEC is an authorized research laboratory of the Italian Ministry of university and Research[18] and a member of the following organizations: UNISIG;[19] UNIFE;[20]CEN; Consorzio Saturno;[21] ERRAC. MERMEC is also a “Founding Member” of Europe's Rail (former SHIFT2RAIL) [22]
