Our plant in Mandro, Lodrino (Brescia, Italy), June 2025Our story
From 2006 to today, in pictures
LAGA was founded in 2006. In 2009 we took over the building in Mandro, Lodrino, and since then every change has been photographed: the roof, the machines arriving on a truck, the first cut, the paint booth, the yard under snow. This page puts those pictures in order — they are ours, taken while the work was going on.
Sixteen years in Mandro
2009
The building, as it was
October 2009: the first pictures of the building, still full of the previous tenant's machines. This is where it starts.
2010
The first winter
March 2010, snow in the yard. It happens, here in the valley, and work does not stop: you shovel and unload anyway.
2011
Benches, racks, bins
End of 2011: most of the work is assembly and inspection, and the shop floor shows it.
2012
One more bay
January 2012: the new bay opens. Space comes before machines, not after.
2013
The new wing, still empty
September 2013: the new wing is finished. It will not stay empty for long.
2013
Six in the morning
December 2013, dawn over Mandro. This is part of the workplace too.
2015
The first machining centre
February 2015: the CNC machining centre arrives on a truck and comes in hanging from the crane. This is the step from assembling to machining.
2015
First cut
Two weeks later the machine is in production: tool, coolant, chips.
2016
The second machine
September 2016: the Milltap 700 arrives. Same scene, eighteen months later.
2018
Finishing becomes ours
April 2018: powder coating booth and oven. From here parts leave finished, not to be finished elsewhere.
2021
Laser cutting and marking
2021: the laser machine comes in. It marks parts, which in aerospace must be traceable one by one.
2024
Today's warehouse
Numbered locations, labels, racks: when a part has to be traceable, order is not decoration.
2025
The metrology room
March 2025: the metrology room is closed in glass. At the end of the month the measuring machine moves in, carried by hand and on a pallet truck.
2025
Seen from above
June 2025: the plant filmed with a drone. Behind it, the valley — which is why most of our suppliers are a few kilometres from here.
Today
The benches, from above
The assembly area filmed by a drone inside the building: one workstation after another, the parts in their boxes.
And today
In 2025 we opened the machining department with two HAAS centres, 3 and 5 axis, the quality room and X-ray inspection. In February 2026 TÜV Italia renewed EN 9100 and ISO 9001; since 9 March 2026 we also hold ISO 14001 and ISO 45001, both for the first time. Numbers and certificates are on the certifications page.
Our parts fly
We work for others: what leaves this building is assembled somewhere else, often on things that fly. These are our own pictures, of the parts and of the places they ended up.
Aerospace. Light units and aluminium components for civil and military aircraft: this is the work the company is EN 9100 certified for.
The detail: landing and taxi lights, machined and treated housings.
On the flight deck. Onboard lighting is one of the programmes we have worked on the longest.
2014, landing light for the A320: the petal reflector that gathers the light of the LEDs.
2014, steerable light: the head turns on its base to point the beam where it is needed.
On display: the wingtip light and the combined landing and taxi light of a PC-24.
2023, on the nose gear of an A320: the LED taxi lights, job done.
2024, at the wingtip of an ATR: the navigation light under its clear cover.
2024: the reflectors fitted in their housing, each one marked with its own number.
Not only aerospace
The same hands and the same checks, on parts that stay on the ground.
Finishes. The same part, six different treatments: finishing is part of the supply.
Metal structures and parts for design furniture.
The starting point: a raw casting, before machining and finishing.
Design: two columns in gold leaf finish with black rings, ready to be packed.
Just out of the oven: powder-coated sheet metal parts, still hanging on the rack.
And off it goes: the wrapped pallet leaves Mandro.
Seen from outside
2017
A case study at the Politecnico
In the academic year 2017-2018 a group of students from the Supply Chain Management course at the Politecnico di Milano chose LAGA as a case study, for a paper on how suppliers are involved in developing a new product. They spent weeks asking us questions, and the result describes a small company holding together a network of suppliers a few kilometres wide. The paper is theirs; what we kept is a picture of how we worked back then.
2025
A page in the newspaper
In June 2025 Corriere Economia Brescia gave us a page: precision machining, treatments and finishes made with local suppliers for the large aerospace companies. The same week we were in the Mille Miglia special issue as well.
2025
The village
We are among the supporters of the summer programme in Lodrino. The company is here and so are the people who work in it: in the 2025 sustainability report, 58% live in the municipality.
Always
The people
The archive also holds pictures of parties, lunches and visits: the tenth anniversary, customers coming up the valley, trade fairs. We do not publish them here, out of respect for the people in them — on this site we would rather let the parts and the walls do the talking.
Opificio delle idee
Opificio, from the Latin opificium: the place where a raw material becomes a finished product. Here a drawing comes in and a part goes out. The name we gave ourselves, in other languages:
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The next part gets written with whoever brings us a drawing
If you have a part to be made — cast, machined, painted, assembled — write to us: a 3D model and two pieces of information are enough for a price.