Luigi Zobele

Luigi Zobele (1921 - 2008) the eldest son of Enrico Zobele senior and Emma Hafner, together with his brother Fulvio, was a fundamental reference in the development of the Chemical Products Factory until the 2000s.

After high school he graduated in Chemical Engineering and joined the company in 1946. Luigi was the one who had the brilliant intuition on the potential success of steel wool, which allowed the company to grow in contrast with the local economy of the 1950s, still behind in the industrial sector. Together with his brother, he worked to promote the return of Zobele in the field of insecticides, starting the first production of anti-mosquito spirals in the sixties and then the mats in the seventies. The positive path in this sector will continue with the entry into the company of his son Enrico, when started the business of the first electrical devices, which led the company in 1975 to double the turnover and to increase the productive capacity by 100%.

Known as “l’Ingegner Gino” and well-liked by everyone, he is remembered as a person with a spontaneous and extroverted character, determined and pragmatic, with a strong commercial instinct, a traveler who was constantly looking for new products and markets for the family company.

(From the right: Luigi, his father, his mother and his brother Fulvio)