Reconciling tradition and innovation, style and functionality. In 70 years of history Olmedo has distinguished itself for having collected under a single name an almost impossible mission winning a place among the most exclusive factories of ambulances and special vehicles in Europe.
A journey made with the desire to restate the canons of the bodywork in the medical sector and disabled transport, turning to the future without ever losing sight of the mission that has distinguished the past of the group:
guarantee everyone the freedom to move.
In the February 1949 the historical sources and relics found among old and precious original family memories composed of brogliacci, photographs and sketches on paper referring to caissons and special bodies, place OLMEDO Quintavalli as founder…
Already in 1958 the search for innovative materials aimed at lightness and structural rigidity, made the scietà Artigiani Riuniti Carrozzai and the few companies in the area the added value in an era in which the…
In February 1964, the company Fagioli di Reggio Emilia, today a world giant for exceptional transport by road, rail and naval, formalized to the bodywork group craftsmen (today Aricar) the request to equip the semi-trailer dedicated…
The OFF ROAD spirit of our days derives from that innate desire to set up vehicles with a professional cut that dates back to 1969 for off-road vehicles. The first transformed all-wheel drive car with first…
Remaining open-mouthed today, more than 45 years after that first publication printed on color coated paper: this is the effect of the first catalog drawn up in 1973 by artigiani Riuniti Carrozzai that has so much…
The particular attention to the people with disabilities and the elderly, increasingly assisted in transport thanks to the advent of social services managed by hospitals, led society to specialize a division in the early eighties dedicated…
Vehicles for the disabled and ambulances on display at the first trade fair of the time, in which Artigiani Riuniti Carrozzai participated by exhibiting both means for health and for social services equipped with a platform;…
After more than 30 years of activity in the historic headquarters in Via Rivasi, in December 1980 the company approved the investment of the new industrial building in Via C.A. From the Church, even today, after…
The maximum expression of Aricar's manufacturing skills was represented in the years of introduction of ambulances on the national market, produced in individual specimens (no series production), thanks to the craftsmanship of coachbuilders, decorators, upholsterers and…
What commonly today takes the name of "automedica" or "automedicalizzata", was born as a technical result of a realization produced by Aricar in the summer of 1988, fulfilling a precise request of the Public Assistance of…
Even before any interest in the off-road field of our days, Aricar was ahead of its time by presenting, back in 1989, the first line of medical equipment derived from off-road vehicles. A series of specific…
The history of ambulances in Europe underwent a disruptive turning point in 1996, when Aricar introduced for the first time on the road emergency market, the technology of modular INTERIORs in ABS. This new innovative and…
The year 1997 marks one of the most important evolutionary steps of Aricar, in the full coat of arms of the Safety line and the new modular ABS concept of ambulances, with the introduction of a…
In February 2003, even before the Olmedo company project was even sketched on paper, almost casually the Olmedo logo took shape, then arousing in the years to come so much admiration for simplicity, intrinsic meaning, beauty…
At the end of 2003, the Quintavalli family bought a dilapidated industrial building and for months in disuse former carpentry dedicated to the production of home furniture, located on the Ghiardo plateau in the middle of…
OLMEDO SPECIAL VEHICLES S.r.l. was founded in 2004 and soon structures its internal operating departments (sheet metal, upholstery, interior design) differentiating them, in order to optimize their development and keep its operational qualities and efficiencies more…
The union between Olmedo and Lautonomia represents the first real corporate acquisition that formalizes the start of the partnership processes immediately placed before any industrial plan written or designed by the Olmedo Management. The historic reality…
The presumption of producing the "most ecological fittings in the world" is fully combined with the company's philosophy of beauty, robust and "recyclable". This strong propensity to respect the environment derives from the family tradition of…
In May 2008, after the resolution endorsed by the family real estate company Il Viottolo, OLMEDO began work on the expansion of the production areas with the construction of a new building adjacent to the one…
In September 2009, the Olmedo Management approved the large capital increase aimed at financially strengthening the company to face the imminent market challenges in a more determined way and, above all, to give a strong signal…
Abruzzo battered by the earthquake welcomed Benedict XVI on board a Ducato Flex Floor Olmedo with special equipment according to Vatican requests, visiting the places of tragedy and pain, from Onna to the student's house. The…
The year 2011 represents the year of the turning point for Olmedo SpA now considered for specialization, range of equipment and production potential the leading company in Italy in the field of transformations for disability transported.…
The central Via de Mercati, just 500 meters from Parma airport and 100 meters from the exit of the ring road, becomes the best point for the opening of the Olmedo Local Unit of Parma, relaunching…
The situation of financial difficulty in which the historic Friulana SORA body shop in Osoppo poured out sharpened in the three-year period 2010-2011-2012 and this criticality was discussed by the "old" property with the Olmedo Management…
The intent to return after years of specific inactivity in the field of vehicles set up for health on the part of the Olmedo Management, already expressed several times in the two-year period 2010-2011 in the…
The entire project of the QTX ambulance based on Fiat Ducato bases its construction path with 4 bullet points that have become the cornerstones of Ambitalia's development on all levels: Innovation and technological research Refined style…
Daily Mobility was founded in 2013 from the ashes of the historic Friulian company "Mobility Trend" specialized in the sale and distribution of components for the passenger transport equipment industry. The choice of the Olmedo Management…
The beginning of 2013 decreed a further important investment in the area, with the inauguration of the Olmedo operational and commercial headquarters in Latina, managed in partnership with Ambitalia and dedicated to the direct and logistical…
In June 2013, the paths of Olmedo with those of Sora had recently crossed bringing to itself the good that the historic Friulian company had so strongly rooted in over 50 years of activity and unfortunately…
On March 31, 2014 , the Olmedo S.p.A. Management announced in the press the acquisition of matrix Media S.r.l. , a historic Reggio Emilia company specialized in the development of innovative communication strategies, Digital Signage, web…
The Mobility Room (so named to give a sense of real adequacy to the concept of "multifunctional") concretizes a primordial idea of Luca gradually strengthened over the years, to make an environment convivial for its customers,…
THE CENTRAL MONTECCHIO EMILIA, located just 6 km from the headquarters of Olmedo S.p.A. in Ghiardo di Bibbiano, becomes from 10 October 2015 the new company operating location dedicated to the sale of only special used…
After a process of evaluation and validation of the financial plans combined with the analysis of the business plan, the process that led Olmedo Special Vehicles S.p.A. to the acquisition of Z.Mode S.r.l. (formerly Zanfi Group…
The excellent developments following the acquisition of the "Sora" business unit after the bankruptcy of the same company in 2012, the Olmedo Management has led to a further important investment in the Friulian activity of lowering…
Important historical elements, emotional references, memories of a not so distant past, have characterized this important convention which, in fact, represents the first of the group. This presentation takes on a high value so "outside the…
2015 will go down in history as "the year of fusion", in which Olmedo S.p.A., after a validated accreditation process, incorporates the subsidiary Ambitalia S.p.A. founded in June 2012 first by the great technical, entrepreneurial and…
The Pope today April 16 will be in the Greek Lampedusa, in Lesbos, where he will "greet individually" (so says the official program of the half-day trip) about 250 asylum seekers. He will then sign a…
A few weeks after the merger by incorporation of the subsidiary Ambitalia, the Olmedo company strengthens the medical vehicle business unit, signing the agreement for the acquisition of the Aricar group and becoming a de facto…
On Friday, November 18th , the press conference was held to present the Olmedo / AC Reggiana 1919 partnership project which involved, in the beautiful setting of the Mobility Room appropriately "branded" for the occasion "granata",…
From the ambitious sharing of an entrepreneurial project aimed at gathering consensus of the city through a meeting point not only for fans but also for sports enthusiasts in general, the first official store of AC…
With an act of acquisition dated 27 July 2017 , Olmedo Spa arrives in Tuscany and does so with the style that has distinguished its continuous growth in recent years. The company of Ghiardo di Bibbiano…
This is the natural evolution of the company Z.mode S.r.l., formerly Zanfi S.r.l.s., acquired in 2016 after an assessment by the parent company to enter the world of professional off-road with the targeted investment of acquisition…
The Olmedo Point in Udine, managed directly by Olmedo staff, represents a point of excellence of the Olmedo sales network, providing a large exhibition area (hall for static demo of vehicles set up), an assistance area…
Reggio Audace Football Club S.r.l. (better known as Reggio Audace or traditionally and historically as Reggiana), is an Italian football club based in the city of Reggio emilia, Emilia-Romagna. It plays in Serie D, the fourth…
ARICAR SPA IN OLMEDO SPA: A STORY OF PASSION. Like the most beautiful stories with a happy ending in which this time the prince charming does not arrive on the white horse but with an equipped…
This is perhaps one of the most important confirmations for Olmedo's OFF ROAD Brand , Z.MODE , newly born in 2016 after the acquisition of the historic Zanfi company, a leader in the world of professional…
Just a year after the bankruptcy and the restart of the football club entrusted to a team of daring members including Luca Quintavalli and Giovanni Tarabelloni of Olmedo, the company today finally recalled with the historical…
Reggiana is the team that wins promotion to Serie B , beating Bari with a header by Augustus Kargbo, a Sierra Leone striker, in the 50th minute. At the Mapei Stadium in Reggio Emilia there are…
In the Olmedo Ambulance Division headquarters in Cavriago, where Aricar was born 70 years ago, the new Emergency Room was inaugurated, a space dedicated to the sale and display of sanitary vehicles in the presence of…
1951-2021: THE HAMMER In 70 years of evolution, there are too many things to tell to express the value, never replicable if not lived, of history. So we do not like to talk about what has…
The time has come: Olmedo is ready. We did not wait, but designed. Designed your entry into a new world, that of silent mobility and we want to be the protagonists as OLMEDO has always been…
A journey of over 140 years that characterizes the two oldest bodies in Europe now united to express renewed longevity; it is an operation without equal in the history of European bodywork, given the numbers in…
