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Officine Meccaniche

Logo: Donau, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

Italian machine and vehicle manufacturer

Officine Meccaniche or OM was an Italian car and truck manufacturing company. It was founded in 1899 in Milan as Società Anonima Officine Meccaniche to manufacture railway rolling stock and car production began in 1918. It disappeared as such in 1975, subsumed into Iveco, but still exists as a forklift builder.2 It is part of KION Group.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1899Founded1
  • Industryautomotive industry1
  • HeadquartersMilan1
  • Founded inMilan1
  • Legal formsocietà per azioni1

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OM 665 Front-view
Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Luc106 assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons5

Officine Meccaniche or OM was an Italian car and truck manufacturing company. It was founded in 1899 in Milan as Società Anonima Officine Meccaniche to manufacture railway rolling stock and car production began in 1918. It disappeared as such in 1975, subsumed into Iveco, but still exists as a forklift builder.2

Corporate structure

Officine Meccaniche is part of a group headed by KION Group. 60 entities, 20 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • KION Group Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    • Dematic Heusenstamm, Germany
    • Linde Material Handling Aschaffenburg, Germany
      • Linde Pohony Subsidiary · Czechia
    • Officine Meccaniche Milan
    • Still CR Praha 10 - Hostivař, Czechia
    • Still GmbH Subsidiary · Hamburg, Germany
    • BAOLI EMEA S.P.A. Subsidiary · Lainate, Italy
    • Dematic Subsidiary · Antwerpen, Belgium
    • DEMATIC CORP. Subsidiary · Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
    • DEMATIC GROUP LIMITED Subsidiary · Banbury, United Kingdom
    • Dematic Group S.a r.l. (Dematic Group S.à r.l.) Subsidiary · Luxembourg, Luxembourg
    • DEMATIC HOLDINGS UK LIMITED Subsidiary · Banbury, United Kingdom
    • DEMATIC LIMITED Subsidiary · Banbury, United Kingdom
    • Dematic Limited Subsidiary · Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
    • DEMATIC LOGISTIC SYSTEMS SA Subsidiary · Coslada, Spain
    • DEMATIC LOGISTICS DE MEXICO Subsidiary · Guadalupe, Mexico
    • DEMATIC PTE. LTD. Subsidiary · Singapore, Singapore
    • Dematic Pty Ltd Subsidiary · Belrose, Australia
    • Dematic SAS Subsidiary · Marne La Vallee Cedex 3, France
    • Dematic Services GmbH Subsidiary · Heusenstamm, Germany
    • DEMATIC SRL Subsidiary · Cernusco sul Naviglio, Italy
    • DEMATIC TRADING DE MEXICO Subsidiary · Guadalupe, Mexico
    • DMTC TECHNOLOGY SERVICES Subsidiary · Guadalupe, Mexico
    • Fenwick-Linde Subsidiary · France
    • KION BUSINESS SERVICES POLSKA SPOLKA Z OGRANICZONA ODPOWIEDZIALNOSCIA Subsidiary · Kraków, Poland
    • KION FINANCIAL SERVICES FRANCE Subsidiary · Élancourt, France
    • and 32 more

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

The story

The inception of the company resulted from the merger of two companies, Grondona Comi & C and Miani Silvestri & C in 1899. Originally, OM manufactured railway stock. Car production started in 1918, using the plant of the former Brixia-Zust (Brixia-Züst), just after OM took over Zust car company of Brescia, Northern Italy. The first OM car, the Tipo S305, was derived from an old Zust model. It appeared in 1918, fitted with a 4,712-cubic-centimetre (287.5 cu in) inline four-cylinder, side-valve engine.

From Wikipedia’s article on Officine Meccaniche, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Products and brands

  • bus
  • car
  • coach
  • rolling stock
  • tractor
  • truck
  • forklift

Listed on Wikidata.1

FS Class ALn 772

OM X-series

From Wikipedia’s article on Officine Meccaniche, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

Former owners and parents

From Wikidata.1

Acquisitions

  1. Succeeded Miani e Silvestri1

Timeline

  1. 2006Acquired Acquired by KION Group1
  2. 2002Acquired Acquired by Linde Material Handling1
  3. 1975Dissolved Dissolved1
  4. 1899Founded Founded in Milan1

Sources

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