• It is my pleasant duty to convey to you the sincerest gratitude of these people for the Abegg firm's resolution to reactivate the Garlate plant by transforming the silk mill into a winding mill

    Letter from the chief magistrate of Garlate to Carlo Job.

  • It is with deep satisfaction that this municipality learned of the decision of the companyAbegg & C. to relocate the winding machinery from the Valgreghentino mill to Garlate,installing it on the empty premises of the former Garlate spinning mill. [...]This decision is a providential measure that was anticipated with real anxiety by thesepeople who, almost since time immemorial, had earned their daily bread through a stableand secure job in the Abegg company factory.

    Letter from the chief magistrate of Garlate to the corporate inspectorate

  • Reactivation of the above-mentioned plant by the Abegg & C. firm is highly anticipated bythis population as it will restore jobs to a good number of unemployed and needy workers.

    Memo by the chief magistrate of Garlate

THE TRANSITION FROM FILANDA TO INCANNATOIO

Letters and Memo by the chief magistrate of Garlate

In 1936, having been closed for a few years, the former silk mill reopened and became a winding mill, once again providing jobs for the people of Garlate (and beyond).New machinery is arriving in Garlate from the Abegg mill in Valgreghentino to allow a wing of the former spinning mill to be transformed into a winding mill.

Credits: Archivio storico comunale di Garlate.