A history of passion, tradition and innovation

After leaving his hometown at the end of the Second World War, Egidio Capaccini goes to Argentina where he finds work in a cable factory. He learns the techniques, develops his skills and returns to Italy to found Tratos.

The Bragagni Capaccini family acquires total control of Tratos S.p.A. and Albano Bragagni becomes president; Tratos starts the production of copper cables for telecommunications and for instrumentation.

When Egidio Capaccini, founder of Tratos, died, Engineer Albano Bragagni joined the company.

This company was born in order to improve production, sales and distribution in Great Britain. (Chesterfield-East Midlands)

The factory for thermoplastic and elastomeric compounds is born. The production of telephone and rubber cables begins.

As the range of fire resistant cables grows, the company becomes a major supplier to the energy, rail, mass transportation, motorway, oil, gas, petrochemical, mining and tunnel industries.

Tratos is a leader in the telecommunications market and in 1987 it began the production of fibre optic cables for sale and distribution on an international basis.

Tratos Cavi S.p.A. acquires the Catania plant.

After having purposely opened the new factory in Sicily in Catania, the company begins to produce and sell Medium Voltage products.

In collaboration with MFX, TRATOS starts the production of umbilical cables for Oil and Gas applications. In the same year, the third generation of the family joins the company with Ennio Bragagni Capaccini “Vice President of Tratos”.

Tratos Ltd acquires North West Cable Ltd and Modular Wiring System in Merseyside in the UK. Tratos Iberica SL is born. New strategies are implemented and offices are opened in Spain, Germany and China. In the same year, Elisabetta Bragagni Capaccini joins the company.

Acquisition of the Fusion for Energy contract through the company ICAS (ENEA-TRATOS-CRIOTEC consortium) under the direction of the “Product development manager – High Technology Division” Massimo Seri.

The quality and the company growth were recognised in the UK by being awarded the Knowsley Business and Regeneration Awards: for the creativity, hard work, organisation and development of Tratos Ltd.

From this further project and for this latest production, a new family plant “TRATOS HV S.p.A.” was established in Pieve Santo Stefano. First supplies of carbon fibre carrier cables and of high voltage underground cables.

Considerable economic increases are made for the plants located in Tuscany with the aim of extending the technical, production and commercial capacity and of meeting the increased demand for superconducting cables and mobile laying.

With the work completed at Knowsley, new, better performing machinery “both in terms of quality and production” became operational. The factory was enlarged by 400% and TRATOS Ltd is currently one of the UK’s leading cable manufacturers.

Tratos is awarded the “Queen’s Award for Enterprise”: the UK’s highest official recognition for the company which excels at international trade, innovation, sustainable development, promoting social opportunities and high-performance products.

R&D project aimed at the design and development of innovative electric and optical fibre cables, with the use of multi-functional micro/nano materials and high-performance renewable materials (eco-compatible, bio-based and recyclable), in order to enable 5G and even 6G connection.