The Business Model

AQM is a non-profit company founded with the specific purpose of assisting shareholders and local companies in the need for improvement that require Laboratory Tests, Consultancy and Training.

The fundamental objective is to provide a Technical Service of Excellence, at the lowest cost to the user, guaranteeing impartiality and reliability.

The second objective concerns the balanced budget; the business model applied provides that the profit will not be distributed to the 187 shareholders but invested in services with high added value, for the development of processes and products.

The achievement of a substantial profit would mean having applied significantly higher costs causing damage of the customers’ economy; any profit is instead invested for the acquisition of material assets and for personnel in order to improve the quality of service.

The Strategy

The Real Added Value of the Company is not only in its advanced Technical Equipment, in the appreciable architectural infrastructures or in its economic financial assets, but fundamentally in the professional skills and commitment of its personnel, increasingly oriented towards better efficiency and development.

The Strategy that has been successful over the years has been to be able to anticipate and identify the needs of shareholders and the territory, providing the necessary skills for the search of solutions to organizational, technological and industrial needs, activating where necessary synergies with other research centers and universities to promote the competitive and technological development of local businesses in a concrete and effective manner.

Thanks to careful and prudent governance, solid internal skills, reputation, a broader customer portfolio, the ability to network and a motivated and well-led organization, today AQM is a primary technical reference center for the local, national and international market.

The Mission

Today, the services offered are mainly used by domestic and international SMEs operating in the transformation and processing of metals for the construction of mechanical components, devices and machines.

Based at Provaglio d’Iseo, it is a large Service Centre covering a site of more than 3800 m2, accommodating laboratories, schools and classrooms, international standards info points, a technical library together  with management and administration offices.

Its facilities, organisation and highly qualified staff make AQM a vital partner to achieve increasing competitiveness and continuous improvement.

A Mission that must be pursued if we want to leave to future generations a worthy heritage, able to witness the efforts made today.

A Mission that must be pursued if we are to leave future generations a worthy legacy, capable of bearing testimony to the efforts being made today.