The origins
It is in 1873 when Cavalier Ferruccio Marchi opened a little factory in Pescia, a Tuscan centre famous for its cultivations of flowers and plants. Here animal bones were treated for the production of size for the carpentry and of fertilizers.
During the following years, the activity increased with the production of mineral superphosphate, obtained through the treatment of American phosphorites with sulphuric acid.
Then Ferruccio, Carlo and Giulio Marchi helped their father in the management of the factory which was assuming a connotation more modern and more suitable for the specific demands of the market of fertilizers. It's for this reason that in 1900 the factory of Marano is put into action for the production of chemical fertilizers and then of anticryptogams. Both the possibility of easy supplies through the railway and channels and its closeness to large agricultural areas of consumption determined the choice of its geographical position.
Thanks to the cultivation of the mine of Ravi - Grosseto - , in 1910 the Marchi gained the supply of pyrite which at that time was the essential raw material for the production of sulphuric acid and this is why in 1923 another factory for the production of sulphuric acid and mineral superphosphate grew up in the port of Livorno.
The present
Now Marchi's chemical activity is concentrated in the factory of Marano Veneziano where two plants for the production of potassium sulphate and of hydrochloridric acid were created: a plant for the production of sulphur acid from elementary sulphur, obtained through a modern contact catalytic process and a plant for the production of high purity sulphuric acid: the "reagent grade". Together with these plants there are also four lines producing,a coalescent for water treatment and clarification, called FLOMAR, one line for the production of granulate intermediate and one authomatic line for the packing of electrolyte for lead-acid storage batteries.
The factory covers an area of 140,000 mq out of which 70,000 are destined to production.
The surrounding area has maintained the typical features of the Venetian countryside where we have a thick network of canals spreading nearby the coast. The installation of the structures developed in a rational way during a century. As for the most antique part which is still partly active, a project of regeneration is being studied. It will make the factory the evident proof of an evolution firmly connected with human work. The old big sheds have the singular wooden roof truss structure still perfectly preserved, so they are a wonderful example of industrial archaeology. The most recent part of the factory has been enlarged and strengthened so that it may receive the new industrial initiatives in the respect of the surroundings.
During 2010 the company has undertaken a new intiative in the renewable energy field establishing Marchi Energia S.r.l. Its commercial business provides a broad range of energy solutions including designs, production, installation and sale of plant for the production and distribution of renewable energy including cogeneration and the implementation of energy saving projects anda acting as an Energy Service Company (E.S.C.O.). Marchi Energia offers a wide range of services.
The future
The hydrosoluble fertilizers with high performances represent another sector of the market where the Marchi Industriale know-how allowed to gain a remarkable success.
Our hydrosoluble potassium sulphate has been one of the most important products of the new generation launched in the fertile-irrigation, as like raw material for the formulate fertilizers or as an end product thanks to its very high solubility grade and thanks to the very low grade of chlorides, and for its excellent dissolution speed, keeping in the main time a very low environmental impact.