For a company with its feet in Genoa and its gaze on the world, Liguria and Italy are too narrow. Stam, an engineering company that has been innovating since 1997, is constantly looking for talents. “We collaborate a lot with the University of Genoa, the real locomotive of research, and which has many international masters, and we hire Italians and foreigners because the local area is no longer enough for us”, says Marco Barbagelata, head of the company’s digital solutions. “Foreigners have an advantage: they are much freer, more mobile, less rooted than us Genoese, attached to our land like limpets to rocks”. But the mobility of foreigners, explains the manager, involves some risks. “A former colleague of ours, from Iran, went to work at Apple. We are proud of it, of course. But we have also lost an important resource ».
The pandemic has brought Stam luck, which has grown by 100% over the past two years. “We have grown for reasons not related to Covid, even though we are the architects of two major European projects to adapt production lines to the new needs dictated by the coronavirus,” says Barbagelata. From its beginnings in ’97, with the patent of a technology later used by the European Space Agency for electric motors, Stam has added new skills in the robotic and digital fields to mechanics and mechatronics. One of the works involving you today, Twinergy, is a European project for energy management. A technology being tested in the municipality of Benetutti, in the province of Sassari, and in four other European municipalities. “With our algorithms we predict the production and consumption of electricity and improve the distribution of the latter to reduce the impact on the grid”.