At Metalco we have made Social Design for Real Life our mission: it is our way of making street furniture at the service of an urbanization that is sustainable for the environment and for people, listening to the needs of today without sacrificing the needs of tomorrow. For this reason:
WE PROMOTE SOCIALITY
Cities and collective spaces should be tailored to people, promoting sociability and creating welcoming places to socialise, work, learn and play.
That is why we offer VITAURBANA collections, characterized by modular and compatible elements to create large islands of sociality, seating options that are more than just benches, becoming meeting places, such as ATOLLO or HARRIS ISOLA, or solutions for outdoor conviviality such as OLYMPIA and AIR LAP collections.
All urban furnishings that are themselves meeting places.
WE OBSERVE REAL LIFE
We observe real life because we believe that everyone deserves sustainable and inclusive collective spaces that enhance both individuals and communities.
People are at the heart of our creative process, we study everyday challenges and urban needs to design environments that support them.
By focusing on individuals, we create settings that foster a sense of belonging, cohesion, and inclusivity in service of daily life.
WE INSPIRE A SENSE OF BELONGING
Cities, towns and neighbourhoods are growing, and with them, so are we. Private space shrinks, but our needs increase.
To retrieve space and connections, we live in streets, squares, stations and parks. Cities must offer places designed for us to fully experience our private dimension outside the home.
When these places are accessible to all, cohesion is created, inequalities are reduced and we feel comfortable in any collective space.
We bring this feeling of “home” to the world, recreating urban living rooms with the SOFA’ collection; with GRANDIFIORIERE we give life to real gardens that can be enjoyed by everyone, and with the beauty of CABINEDDA we leave space for reflection and contemplation of the landscape.
WE BRING RESPECT FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
We respect the environment by going beyond what we already do. While we use only 100% certified sustainable energy, with over 7,500 solar panels preventing the emission of 850 tons of CO2 per year, we don’t stop there.
We carefully select suppliers, use recyclable materials, and optimize production processes, but we continue to push further.
We invest in research and development to discover even more eco-friendly materials and improve our processes, ensuring that urban furniture is durable, reusable, and easy to dispose of at the end of its life cycle.
Our goal is to help make all cities more sustainable.
WE LOVE DESIGN AND CREATIVE FREEDOM
We believe in design that conquers with aesthetics and functionality, industrialisation that turns ideas into products, and the value of human creativity.
Our in-house team of experienced professionals and promising young people create products to allow you to sign the world with your unique and unmistakable designs.
We develop products with an unmistakable style, where modularity and functionality come together to give maximum freedom of expression to your urban projects.
WE KNOW HOW TO DO ALL THIS AND WE DO IT WITH STYLE.
We believe in creativity, but we know that to realise it you need technique, know-how and production capacity.
We are a company of professionals, each with their own skills.
We are part of Agora Makers, an international Group specialised in street furniture and public lighting, where innovative technologies meet our ability to work with steel, aluminium, wood and concrete.
We invest in research, machinery and production techniques to achieve ever better and certified performance while respecting the environment.
Our scientific lab, Atoms, focuses on scientific and chemical research to develop new sustainable materials and processes.
Finally, we listen to and satisfy our customers’ needs thanks to our team, our subsidiaries around the world and our network of business partners.
All this is in our STILE.