That one of the Legnano's enterprises, and therefore of the High Milano, is an ancient history, that it begins very soon in the period when students were usual to indicate as 'industrial revolution'.

Pack-saddles to think that the first recorded manifacturing activity to Legnano of the XII century, much in the two convents of religious of the order of Humiliates bloomed the collective working of the wool.

It was but in the second half of the past century that the cities of Olona Valley came chosen for their morphologic particular characteristic as central of numerous textile mills.

In those years the epic taken the way that transformed the agricultural village like Legnano in the 'Small Manchester' of Italy.

An epic protagonist had the names of Cantoni-Krumm, Franco Tosi, De Angeli-Frua, Fial, Manufacture of Legnano.

The age of gold of the industry of Legnano lasted from first of the 1900's until the end of years '60, then little later years began the crisis. In the course of the years the entire area of the High Milano has been interested heavy processes of restructure that have limited the traditional local economic members, which the industry thermo-electrical worker-mechanics, textile, the mechanics and the shoe.

Therefore numerous cases of business closings have been taken place, above all in textile and in the apparel, with heavy occupational repercussions.

That the territory was mature for carrying out has been clearly to all already from the beginnings of years '80: what many expected, were that to the deindustrializzation followed the development of fields alternated.

To the closing of the factories that had contributed to write important understood them of the history of the High Milano but is corresponded the development of new fields, neither manifacturing neither of services.

The carried out one towards the Third field has not had a such thickness to compensate the fall of the occupational level, and the entire area has endured a process of wearing down aggravated from strong conditionings acclimatizes them and of city congestion that the potentiality of the development factors has limited.

Between the end of years 80' and the beginning of years 90' the deindustrialization process continued to reap its victims, and the industry lost land progressively recording the closing or the heavy reorganization of many productive units: pack-saddles to think next to the restructure of the Frank plant Shear followed to the arrive of Ansaldo, to the closing of the Termozeta, the Borletti, of the Sia, of the textile industries and of the shoe factories of Parabiago.

Of other song the impression recorded to the end of years '80 has been confirmed from the experiences of city like Nerviano, that also having decided to bet on the great distribution there are not resolutions to compensate in appreciable way the occupational decrease.

Like directed consequence of this situation, the small businessmen and the traders who in past had contributed in determining way to weave the net of the local economy are themselves once again find protagonists to you of an entrepreneurial panorama that also fragmented succeeds however 'to hold the market'.

The culture of the enterprise, the inventiveness and the ability to adapt itself quickly to the requirements of the customers, have become the force of those small enterprises of the territory that acting untied from the logical ones of the great groups have succeeded to conquer one particular niche of market.
Pack-saddles to think next to happened about a experience like that one of the Siblings the Lipsticks, that it has reassumed the experience and the professionality of the masters of an entire territory.

Hour an opportunity of I throw again for the entire territory could arrive from the adopted initiatives in order to finance the reindustrialization of the axis of the Sempione: the experience of Euro-Company testifies that the 'Legnano produces' is still alive and vital.

But the future is all to play.