“The competence and the experience of Salvi, established in 1920 and since 2002 part of the international group Sicame, enriched over the time also thanks to the agreement with the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Politecnico di Milano, launched in 1966 and still ongoing”, explained Salvi President Aldo Tufari. The statement "The right way for fitting systems" emphasizes the company mission: absolute reliability, flexibility, maximum versatility and the right answer for the solution of any problem.

According to the Chancellor Ferruccio Resta, this meeting has a double value: personnel and professional. “I feel a family atmosphere because I started working here since I was young” he reminded. “On Saturday and Sunday, when I was a university student, I came here in Salvi to use the “wind tunnel” in order to test the electrical components. I have always considered this Company as a Politecnico laboratory. At those times, Politecnico di Milano lean on Salvi for conducting tests in the “wind tunnel”, a laboratory where hardware and fittings were tested to withstand a force of 300 Km hourly. Today the Politecnico di Milano is equipped with its own “wind tunnel”, spacious and innovative, and the partnership with Salvi for the design and testing still goes on.

It has been a fundamental experience for me to realize about the importance of the relationships between Companies and Universities” continued Ferruccio Resta. “In a country as Italy, where the research policies are not always clear, it is important that the two realities, Companies and Universities, are joined in the field of the research and competitiveness.
Having business partners, for a university, means to cooperate in the name of speed, efficiency and professional skill. Not only. The university can be of service to the companies in order to help them increasing the know-how and vice versa”.

Since the very first beginning professor Giorgio Diana coordinated the cooperation project between Politecnico and Salvi, following the students of mechanical engineering in their studies and projects: “We have been working together in the continuous research of reliable and innovative products for 51 years. An agreement that has given rise to a pole of excellence in the solution of the vibration phenomena in the high voltage overhead transmission lines.

In fact, for each project a specific damping study is performed, based on the line characteristics provided by the Customer, in order to define the suitable type of damping device and the advised number of spacer dampers and/or vibration dampers for each span.

Salvi approach is to give to the Customer a complete project, inclusive of the study, rather than supply only a high-performance product. The software used to perform the damping study has been developed by Politecnico di Milano and systematically updated and improved by the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Politecnico di Milano.