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This was a decade of great creativity, which began with the launching of a prestigious product – the ROCAMA hand tacker which replaced the thirties’ model – ROFAMA. Together with the FOREST staple – still today a winning pair – they were Maestri’s response to the needs of the hardware market.
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Toward the mid-fifties, yet another event took place – the birth of the PUNCAR office stapling plier. Thanks to its conception and design, it was awarded the “Compasso d’Oro” and was exhibited at MOMA (Museum of Modern Art) in New York and, because of its modern design, it still remains one of the most outstanding staplers available today on the market.
During those years, to further complete the office line, special heavy duty staplers such as RO-MA G 49 and RO-MA G 56 were designed to staple high thickness and note-pads.
The same decade saw Maestri going through yet another and more important diversification process – its main goal being to manufacture products for the pack-fastening sector.
Along with an increase in the range of items pertaining to the packing sector (Multens manual strapping tools for steel straps, Roama carton-closing staplers, Netring tubular-net fastening machines, and poliring fasteners for polyethylene bags), a corresponding evolution was taking place in the sealing sector. In fact, the invention of SIGILMAES (a manual pressureclosing device) has marked an epoch.
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 Toward the end of this decade, in 1957, Maestri makes the decision to take a step, which will be of strategic relevance: the acquisition of the sole agency of an American Company, leader in manufacturing pneumatic tackers , SENCO of Cincinnati.
This decision incited Maestri to take a number of steps, both from a manufacturing point of view as from a commercial one, for here was the opportunity to penetrate an entirely new sector, which was purely industrial.
The outcome was immediately favourable. The production of different types of staples for different uses had become a necessity. In such a situation, therefore, Maestri went through a big production expansion. Moreover, in order to be able to sell directly to the industry, the Company decided to create a network of technically-skilled salesmen and, by doing so, boosted its commercial structure.
In this way the Company consolidated its commercial experience, which had till then been directly to the office and hardware sectors and, through contacts with persons working in distribution, it also began to become part of the industrial context.
On acquiring the SENCO representation, Maestri also took on a working structure through which it still operates in the field of:
- office supplies
- manual and packing fasteners distributed to professional users through hardware sale-points
- pneumatic fasteners for industry
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