| At the start of the nineties, Italdesign was transformed into a Group when it acquired SALLIG, a company founded in 1960 that designs and builds acrylic, cast iron and zamak matrices for prototype elements in the automotive sector and today also operates in the aeronautics and household appliances sector.
ETM, Engineering Technologies Methods, also became part of the Group. Founded in 1984, ETM has integrated its design services with equipment for silicone moulding which has allowed the transition from the acrylic prototype to the pre-series in a material with characteristics similar to the finished product.
The activities were further developed through an aggressive policy of internationalisation which led to the creation of Diseño Industrial Italdesign Srl (1992) in Barcelona. The objective of the company is to interact with the complex Spanish manufacturing industry in the design and construction of models, master models and prototypes.
To best follow the developments on the Asian market, the Group set up the Technology Design Consortium (1996) as a 50-50 joint venture with Fata Group S.p.A., to work on the Chinese and Vietnamese markets.
In the early part of 1999, the Group took on a new name, Italdesign-Giugiaro S.p.A.
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