The Foundation

MCS was incorporated by Gino Chiappini, who will eventually become the Board Chairman and Angelo Cagnazzo, a technical manager.

Today the management and administrative support services is providing by its founding members heirs and a team of trusted collaborators.

The covered area of the production departments reaches 1200 square meters.

MCS manufactures its very first dyeing machine.

Gino Chiappini and his brother-in-law Italo Pilenga incorporate Europizzi, a third-party textile dye-house, finisher and manufacturer of textile auxiliaries in Urgnano (BG).

Today, it is one of the largest Italian dyeing industries with 20,000 kg knits and 50,000 m wovens per day. Today the company is still owned by the Chiappini and Pilenga families and is managed by Italo’s two sons, Paolo and Carlo, along with Mr Roberto Lecchi.

ITMA Paris

Presentation of the first model of low-temperature atmospheric jet unit at ITMA Paris.

MCS starts developing and manufacturing continuous lines for open-width woven fabrics. It starts manufacturing and selling the first continuous washing, bleaching and mercerizing systems.

ITMA Hannover

MCS presents JET HT, OVERFLOW MO/80 BT and MRS65

Termoelettronica joins the MCS group.

ITMA Birmingham

MCS presents MULTIFLOW SUPERIOR, a round-shaped single-rope-rope dyeing machine, equipped with downtime reduction service MQD and quick drain system, SILUROECOTURBO, a dyeing machine with beam featuring inside-outside and outside-inside liquor transfer flow.

MCS presents the prototype of UNIVERSAL DYEING, a cylindrical rope-dyeing machine.

ITMA Munch

MCS presents UNIVERSAL DYEING, FIRST VENTO, a circular air/water dyeing machine, MISTRAL, a finishing tumbler tumbler for woven fabrics, COLTEX SYSTEMS, spectrophotometric fabric control systems by Termoelettronica, New VDA, a laboratory system meant to monitor all dyeing process parameters.

MCS presents ITALICA, a new horizontal dyeing machine featuring a low liquor ration and internal handling of the nozzle– drive reel dyeing system.

ITMA Barcellona

MCS presents STARWASH, an open-width washing line for delicate fabrics, COMBY JIGGER H.T. CJ143, a high-temperature open-width dyeing with new tension and operation control systems, DYNAMICA, a horizontal rope-dyeing machine with a new multi-suction and product introduction system.

MCS installs the biggest continuous bleaching line ever manufactured in its factories, featuring a working speed of 80 m/min. They also launch on the market SMARTFLOW, a dyeing machine with a round-shaped tank featuring a dyeing system inside the machine body.

ITMA Milan

MCS presents MULTIWASH, compact and versatile washing and bleaching line in rope form; STAWRWASH-FS , open-width tension-less scouring box; DYNAMICA SPRINT a round rope-dyeing machine with a patented multi-suction and product introduction system.

ITMA Barcellona