Rollwasch Innovation and excellence since 1950

Rollwasch® activity was born in 1950 in via Argelati, in Milan, by its founder Giuseppe Redaelli. 

Rollwasch® is the first Italian company in the “barelling” field to be born in a period when the main machines were rotary barrels and the abrasives used were quarry or river stones conveniently selected. 

We have always been a cutting-edge company thanks to a constant and passionate research activity that has led Rollwasch® to keep up with the most modern technologies for metal and non-metal surfaces mass finishing. We have developed interesting records such as the first-ever high frequency vibrations machines for ball burnishing processes and the creation of an innovative products and machines series inspired to carbon footprint containment and environmental sustainability. Rollwasch® Italiana aims to a sustainable growth and in June 2015 it was certified in the new Innovative SME register – the first company in Milan and among the first in Italy.

Rollwasch® has also been part of the eminent Lombardia Aerospace Cluster since 2015, it is a founding partner of PoliEFUN (Politecnico di Milano) and it actively cooperates with Polimi (Politecnico di Milano).

Our company has always been managed since its origins by the same family, now at the third generation, with an experience and know-how heritage of great prestige at international level. 

In other respects, we are unique for the level of inventiveness and creativity, with about ten patent applications filed in the last ten years.

We are located north of Milan and our headquarters are served by the three main airports of the area, Malpensa, Linate and Orio al Serio (Bergamo). At Rollwasch® there is the right mix of experienced veterans and promising youngsters, motivated to face the challenges of the future.

ABOUT US

In 1950 Giuseppe Redaelli established Rollwasch® - name inspired to the operating dynamic of rotary barrels that, with river stones, water and continuous and gentle rolling, allowed mass finishing of an endless variety of metal parts. The logo with an “eight” shape is inspired by the ancient Chinese interpretation of numbers according to which “eight” means “better”. During this first year the company was located in Milan, in via Argelati, with only one co-worker – Mario Giani – who has spent his entire working life until retirement at Rollwasch®.

In 1961 was born the eldest son Paolo who currently manages Rollwasch® together with his siblings Roberto, Raffaele and Ambra. In the same year the SPECIAL series machines for ball burnishing with high frequency engines were designed and created - Rollwasch® was the first in the world to debut with this technology. For some years the company has already moved to the bigger and more functional plant in Carate Brianza, while offices are located in a modern skyscraper in Milan, in Piazza della Repubblica 32.

In 1966 the sons Paolo and Roberto were with their parents at Rollwasch® stand at Fiera di Milano – really important event at national level at the time, where industrial products were displayed together with other endless categories, therefore with great acclaim. Rollwasch® has taken part to almost all Fiera di Milano exhibitions up to the birth of the first sector specialized fairs.

In 1974 the sons Paolo, Roberto and Raffaele were with their grandfather Gigi and their uncle Luigi at Rollwasch® stand at the 52nd edition of Fiera di Milano - event born in Porta Venezia, Milan, in 1920 and then moved in 1923 between Piazza Giulio Cesare and Largo Domodossola until 1990, year of last exhibition. In the same year in Albiate Brianza began the first activities for the acquisition of the land on which the current headquarters would have risen, then developed and expanded in several phases over the years.

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In 1977 Paolo and Roberto started working in Rollwasch® - they both attended the night school at a technical institute in Monza too. These were years of intense activity for both of them, aware that they had undertaken the out-and-out education, hard as the steel forge – this course of studies was by no means unusual in the seventies. On February 1st of the same year in Italy the first RAI colour television broadcasts officially began. 

In 1983, at the peak of a major economic crisis, Giuseppe and Paolo decided to face the first important Rollwasch® reorganisation – in that year took place the transition from manufacturing everything in-house to having the metal structures of the machines produced by external carpenters according to design. A net of trusted and resilient subcontractor arose, then developed and perfectioned until today. In 1984 Paolo introduced in the technical office the first CAD combined with a plotter with «rapidograph rotring» ink pens.

In 1985 the Rollwasch® Rollturbo rotating disc centrifugal machines range strengthened. The commitment, born with the first and biggest RT-1 model (photo on the side), highlighted the need to optimise at most the polyurethane anti-abrasive coatings’ quality. In those years the first sequential PLC were used. 

It dates back to 1991 the photo which shows the whole Rollwasch® management at BIMU -  Biennale della macchina utensile in Milan, with the founder Giuseppe and his children Paolo, Roberto, Raffaele and Ambra. At the bottom right the little Michela, Paolo’s daughter. In the same year at Trattamenti e Finiture exhibition in Parma Paolo disclosed the new chemical compounds series EUROPA, environmentally-friendly and easy to purify – thus anticipating by fifteen years the REACH European Directive entered into force on December 18th 2006.

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In 1997 Giuseppe died, leaving the reins of the company to his four children. The grandchildren Giorgio and Michela have already been working for some time in the technical office and in the management secretariat respectively, cooperating with their father Paolo and their aunt and uncles in the everyday life of an increasingly modern and efficient company, inclined to environmental sustainability and circular economy. 

In 2000 Rollwasch® turned 50 years and the anniversary was celebrated inviting local authorities. The event took place soon after the enlargement of the plant in Albiate, with new headquarters of offices, warehouses and laboratories reaching a covered surface of more than 9000 sq.m. On that occasion the artist Giancarlo Bulli donated the bronze sculpture representing the connection between the two generations of the company. 

2022 corresponds with a new project to expand the Rollwasch® site in Albiate, which includes new covered structures nearby the production facilities. The coverings will be suitable to mount latest generation photovoltaic panels to contribute to the company’s energy needs in a sustainable way. 

MISSION & VISION

Rollwasch® MISSION is to grant client’s satisfaction with its own services, products and technological solutions. To offer to the client products with the right quality/price ratio and machines that meet not only their expectations, but also operative reliability and efficiency criteria. To have transparent discussions, giving coherent and rapid feedbacks.

Rollwasch® VISION is to propose alternative solutions to conventional techniques, offering innovation, projects’ multi-disciplinary vision, high degree specialisation, affordable solutions and technologies, as much eco-friendly as possible and aiming to reduce carbon footprint.

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