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BCS was founded
in 1943, out of a simple intuition of Luigi
Castoldi, its brilliant founder.
His first
business revolved around a tiny workshop in Abbiategrasso, a town on the
outskirts of Milan; the area still maintains a strong agricultural tradition:
all the work, sowing and reaping was done with the farmers' own hands.
Hence
the idea to design and manufacture a
self-propelled mowing machines, among the first in the world, equipped with
an internal combustion engine with low power: thus the model '243' was born, representing a
revolution in the agricultural world of that time thanks both to its great
production capacity and the concrete improvement it made in farmers' lives.
In his project,
the Engineer Luigi Castoldi involved Camillo Bonetti, a manager at the tax
authority of Abbiategrasso, and Severino Speroni, an excellent mechanic. The
abbreviation 'BCS' comes from the initials of their surnames.
At the end of
the '60s, BCS entered the field of lawn
maintenance with the construction of the first 'light' and smaller multi-function two-wheel tractors for a
market in which, until then, there had only been expensive and bulky machines.
Since 1970, to
meet the growing demand for increased productivity in agriculture, rotary disks were introduced for tractors.
In 2000, the
Engineer Fabrizio Castoldi, the son
of the founder, took his father's place at the helm of the company and became
the new president of the Company.
Today the BCS Group is a leading multinational
company in the mechanization sector. It designs and manufactures agricultural
machinery and for greens maintenance, machines for autonomous electrical energy
production and for mobile welding.
The BCS Group has three production plants in
Italy (Abbiategrasso, Luzzara and Cusago) certified under ISO 9001 and has a
presence in every continent with sales offices and distributors.