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Ilario Ormezzano SAI has implemented an Integrated Safety, Health and Environmental Management System in compliance with UNI EN ISO 14001:2015 and UNI EN ISO 45001:2018 standards, ensuring its continuous review, updating, and improvement.
Achieving these certifications formalizes the Company’s commitment to operating with full respect for the environment, health, and safety. It reflects our determination to adopt increasingly sustainable practices and demonstrates our ongoing efforts to provide a safe and healthy working environment for all employees and stakeholders.
Furthermore, since 2000, in compliance with Italian Legislative Decree 105/15 concerning the prevention of major accident hazards, the Company has considered the protection of health, safety, and the environment a top priority through its dedicated Safety Management System.
Ilario Ormezzano-SAI operates in the market with a constant focus on the quality of its products and services with continuous verification of market needs and demands.
The UNI EN ISO 9001:2015 quality certification guarantees that everything marked with the company’s trademark has been designed, produced and placed on the market according to strict quality criteria; this represents the most important recognition of the company’s industrial and professional commitment.
The new REACH regulation concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemical Substances, which entered into force in the European Union on 1st June 2007, aims to guarantee the protection of human health and the environment through the safe use of chemicals. , evaluating the display scenarios throughout the life cycle of the product, an objective fully shared and supported by Ilario Ormezzano-SAI.
All chemicals produced or imported in quantities equal to or greater than one ton / year, in order to be marketed, must be registered with the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) and their uses must be identified and notified according to the no data no market criterion.
The regulation therefore involves all parties, from the manufacturer to the end user, who will treat chemicals as such, or as components, of preparations or articles.
Given the importance of the regulation and the challenge it represents for the chemical sector, Ilario Ormezzano-SAI immediately committed to deepening its various aspects, creating an internal team.
The implementation of the regulation has taken place in recent years through the issuance of technical guides, the pre-registration of products and compliance with the first registration deadline while waiting to follow the instructions of the subsequent phases. The company will maintain an open dialogue with its Suppliers and Customers thus ensuring the exchange of information necessary to assimilate REACH.
The ZDHC Roadmap to Zero Programme guides the fashion industry toward more sustainable production practices and responsible chemical management, with the goal of protecting workers, consumers, and the ecosystems of our planet.
Ilario Ormezzano SAI has been listed on the ZDHC portal for several years, reflecting its strong commitment to the objectives of the foundation and the ZDHC Programme. This commitment is closely linked to the Company’s historical connection with the textile industry, which dates back to 1897 in Vallemosso, when the original pharmacy began supplying chemical products to the thriving textile sector of the Biella district.
The Company has chosen to further strengthen this connection and extend it to the leather industry by certifying a range of products according to ZDHC standards. This allows Ilario Ormezzano SAI to provide its customers with effective support in implementing the Roadmap to Zero Programme while meeting the increasing sustainability requirements of the market.
Ilario Ormezzano SAI joined the ELITE program on 11 April 2018.
ELITE is the international program launched by the Borsa Italiana in 2012, in collaboration with Confindustria, to support companies in achieving their growth ambitions.
ELITE provides access to a wide range of financing opportunities, enhances corporate visibility and attractiveness, connects businesses with potential investors, and supports management teams through a process of cultural and organizational transformation.
The impact generated by ELITE in Italy over the years can be summarized through three key indicators: the growth in the size of ELITE companies, the increase in their profitability, and the expansion of employment opportunities created by participating businesses.
Ilario Ormezzano SAI is certified according to UNI/PdR 125:2022, the Italian standard that establishes the requirements for implementing a management system focused on gender equality.
This certification recognizes the Company’s commitment to adopting policies and processes aimed at ensuring equal opportunities, valuing talent and skills, and fostering an inclusive workplace. Particular attention is given to recruitment and hiring practices, professional development, pay equity, parental support, work-life balance, and the prevention of discriminatory behavior.
This achievement is part of Ilario Ormezzano SAI’s continuous improvement journey, reinforcing its commitment to social responsibility, organizational sustainability, and respect for people.
Ilario Ormezzano Sai s.r.l. 2022 | Capitale Sociale € 6.000.000 i.v. | Via Cavour, 120 – 13894 Gaglianico (Bi) – Italy
Reg. Impr. Biella – C.F. 00160610028 – P.IVA 00160610028 | R.E.A. 73417 – È vietata la riproduzione anche parziale
S.E.P.I.C. by Gianni Donati, then SEPIC srl
1956 – the activity begins in Varese, in a former Shell warehouse
1958 – purchased the area in Bollate, construction of the warehouse begins, which proceeds in successive phases until the maximum expansion in 1985
1991 – buys the Crema warehouse, the former Bensol refinery, from Baldini
1993 – SepicSrl, with the exception of the Bollate warehouse (sold to SIO – Soc. Intermedi Ospiate owned by the Donati family), is purchased by Brenntag Italia
1994 – 2003 Andrea Donati holds the position of Chief Executive Officer of Brenntag Spa
2004 – The company separates from the Brenntag group and takes the new name SiochemSrl (Società Intermedi Ospiate Chemical) and changes the corporate object from real estate to a commercial and service company for chemical products.
In 2016, after many years of collaboration with the company Ilario Ormezzano SAI, Siochem Srl was acquired and merged within the group.
Agechim S.r.l. was founded in April 1974 by Gian Piero Rimoldi who, after years of experience as an executive at Montedison and Sprea, decided to create his own company to devote himself to the marketing of chemical products. Thanks to the skills of the founder and to a mandate of representation conferred by one of the most important phenol and acetone producers, Agechim, a small family-run business, established itself on the national market by managing significant quantities of phenol, acetophenone, alfamethylstyrene and acetone. At the beginning of the 1980s, his son Stefano joined the company and enthusiastically started the expansion of the products marketed, in particular monomers, acrylates, methacrylates and other specialties such as bisphenol, PTBF and organic peroxides are developed. At the same time, relations with the most important national and international manufacturers are increasing and consolidating and Agechim is thus able to offer its customers not only high quality products that are always up-to-date and respectful of the laws in force, but can guarantee regular supplies and technical support. Since 2013 Agechim is proudly part of the Ilario Ormezzano company – You know, the adventure continues based on the same principles, with the same goals and with the same enthusiasm.
Pharmaline is a company active and present in the pharmaceutical market for more than 25 years, supplying a large variety of fine chemicals to its customers. The company was created in 1990 by Luciano Sorresini who, after many years in the chemical sector, decided to pursue his own path. Thus began his activity as an agent of Tradeco, selling more and more chemicals in the pharmaceutical market. During these years, Pharmaline constantly increased its representatives for the Italian market. Its strong presence in the field of organic intermediates for chemical and chemical-pharmaceutical synthesis has given the company the opportunity to work with fine chemical manufacturing companies located in Japan, India, China and the UK. Subsequently, Pharmaline began to cooperate with distribution companies present in numerous states and became the Italian member of the INDIS Group. In 2011 the company was acquired by Ilario Ormezzano and merged into the commercial offices in Via Ripamonti 44. Currently the Pharmaline division specializes in fine chemicals.
Distributor of basic chemicals since 1927.
The company was founded by the RATTI and MARCHESI families in Milan.
Over the years, Ratti managed to establish important agencies; to remember was the representation of Chemapol dei Praga for numerous products: from Sodium Hydrosulfite to acetic acid. This representation allowed the company to establish an important presence in the Milanese market in the textile sector. The company grew to 15 employees, also buying shares in a company, Chimimec (a company that held the representation for a German company of acetic acid and of Kali und Salz for magnesium sulfate). With the closure of Chimimec, Dr. Giorgio Marchesi, in 2003, decided to sell the business unit to Ilario Ormezzano Sai S.p.a, thus joining the Group. In 2010 the company moved together with the SAI division, to the commercial offices in Via Ripamonti 44.
In 1988, aiming for continuous expansion, IOB bought the SAI Company (Industrial Procurement Company founded in 1986) commercial arm of Montedison, the most important Italian chemical company.
This acquisition was the first step of Dr. Giancarlo Ormezzano in the diversification of the reference markets. After several years dedicated to internal and external restructuring (moving to the offices of Pieve Emanuele); in 2000 the two companies merge giving life to Ilario Ormezzano-SAI. In 2010, the company moved to the commercial offices in Via Ripamonti 44. Currently the SAI division, within Ormezzano, is the branch specializing in pharmaceutical chemistry.
Ilario Ormezzano was born in 1897, first as a pharmacy in Vallemosso, founded by Cav. Ilario Ormezzano, and then transformed into a company thanks to the foresight of its founder who, attending to the needs of the then expanding textile market, expands the range of initial products. giving life to the IOB (Ilario Ormezzano Biella) where thanks also to the contribution of Dr. Franco Ormezzano, successor of Cav. Ilario, continues to develop and expand.
In 1980, continuing the passage from generation to generation, Dr. Giancarlo Ormezzano takes over the management of the company and builds a new plant in Gaglianico that can replace the historic one in Biella, in order to keep up with the high standards of safety, quality and respect for the environment.
