Snia (company)
Italian defence product, textile, and chemical firm
Snia, stylized as SNIA, (later SNIA Viscosa and finally SNIA BDG Srl) was an Italian firm located in Milan that manufactured defence products, textiles, chemicals, perfumes, and corrugated paper among other products.
History
The Società di Navigazione Italo-Americana (SNIA) was founded as a shipping company in 1917 in Turin by the financier Riccardo Gualino of Turin.
Giovanni Agnelli of Fiat was vice-president of SNIA from 1917 to 1926.
Gualino and Agnelli became involved in the profitable transport of US aid to Europe in 1917.
In the early 1920s SNIA began to manufacture artificial textile fibers.
Artificial cellulose fibers had been produced before the war, but SNIA was the first to mass-produce rayon.
The company was given the new name of SNIA Viscosa (Società nazionale industria e applicazioni viscosa, National Rayon Manufacturing and Application Company).
Gualino made huge investments in SNIA Viscosa.
By the mid-1920s SNIA Viscosa was the largest company in Italy in terms of capital.
By 1926 SNIA Viscosa had become the second-largest rayon producer in the world.
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