Salmoiraghi

The origins of the company date back to 1865, the year in which the La Filotecnica school-workshop, specialized in the construction of surveying instruments, was founded in Milan by a captain of genius who was passionate about optics, Ignazio Porro. Angelo Salmoiraghi, an ex-student called by Porro to lend him a hand, transformed from 1870 what was a laboratory into an initially artisanal activity specializing in lenses and optical applications