Ingemar's recipe for new markets: "Diversify your offerings."

Ingemar's 2025 already promises to keep the Milanese company busy for much of the year, with encouraging financial returns, thanks to the overlap of important new orders acquired in Italy and abroad and some deliveries already scheduled for 2024 but "slipped" into the new financial year at the clients' request.

Precisely in anticipation of its growing commitments, last year the company began a thorough redesign of several aspects of its production cycle, improving the logistics of its processing and material storage spaces and reducing company lead times. This decision, diversifying its offerings, has proven to be a godsend.

The adoption of innovative mobile external construction sites, the outsourcing of minor work, and licensed production in remote areas are already bearing fruit. The company's internal workforce has undergone significant changes, with the addition of new, young resources, both in the technical and design departments and in the sales network, as well as among the workforce responsible for the various production phases.

At the institutional level, the new year will be marked by consolidated technical collaborations with major waterborne events and the unmissable Boat Shows, which from Venice to Genoa are privileged places for the public to experience the finest creations by Ingemar (technical sponsor and supplier of the pontoons that characterize the events) and to showcase firsthand the developments of the new floating structures dedicated to accessibility, part of the M4A Marina4All project.

This fall, Ingemar will also sponsor the World Marinas Conference – Icomia 2025 in Venice, the exclusive biennial event that will see over 600 guests converge on the lagoon capital from around the world to discuss global development prospects for international tourist ports.

Ingemar teams are currently working on the coasts of several foreign countries (Morocco, Slovenia, Greece, Switzerland, Montenegro, to name a few), but the following overview highlights some recent installations carried out in Italy, which clearly demonstrate the company's ability to diversify its range of projects, using floating structures in new areas and for different purposes and intended uses.

Ravenna

Ingemar has installed two docks for mooring vessels (from 14 to 45m) produced at the new Ferretti Group shipyard in Ravenna, covering over 100,000m2, currently the largest shipyard in the Mediterranean with 12 already operational production stations.

The structure consists of two breakwaters (totaling 75 m) obtained by joining 8 m wide "All Concrete" modules, which represent the state-of-the-art production and meet the extremely high quality standards required by the client. The structures feature a high freeboard, a useful overload of 500 kg/m2, and a displacement of 6 t per linear meter. They are made of reinforced concrete with a polystyrene core and finished with fine exotic woods and elegant stone curbs. The pontoons feature top-of-the-line finishes, including bollards, service points, and stainless steel access gangways. Anchorage to the seabed is ensured by fixed piles and shock-absorbing sliders, and the moorings are equipped with an ingenious system of multiple bottom lashings and catenaries with different configurations to allow boats of various sizes to moor in the same position, thus ensuring maximum flexibility in the docking plan.

Murano (Venice)

The large temporary floating bridge commissioned by the City of Venice to replace the Longo “Lino Toffolo” bridge, an important pedestrian hub on the island, closed for complete renovations until next summer, is already operational.

The walkway, which allows pedestrians to pass between the two busy banks of the canal, was installed near the original bridge, assembling several floating modules similar to those used to "compose" the votive bridge for the Festa del Redentore. The pedestrian path is 38 meters wide, with systems connecting the banks designed to ensure universal access as the tide changes. This low-impact structure is easily removable and adaptable for other uses in the lagoon environment.

Molfetta (Bari)

The redevelopment project for Molfetta's waterfront and port is progressing rapidly, with the Municipality building new docks for fishing vessels and new mooring piers for pleasure craft. The Ingemar offshore structures include a long L-shaped floating dock (200 m long x 4 m wide) and four 2,5 m wide pontoon piers, for a total of 330 m, capable of mooring approximately 300 vessels up to 16 m in length.

The floating docks are of the discontinuous buoyancy type with a heavy-duty galvanized steel frame, concrete floating units with expanded polystyrene cores, and decking made of high-quality exotic wood. The piers, which serve a defensive function, are obtained by rigidly coupling 12 x 2 m elements (for ease of transport) and feature 10 floating units in a double row (5 + 5) that create a reflective effect on the short waves that are created within the port basin. The internal piers, 12 x 2,5 m elements, are supported by only three floating units to maximize surface transparency. The piers and pontoons are secured to the seabed with a traditional system of chains and mooring posts.

Corigliano Calabro (Cosenza)

The Southern Tyrrhenian and Ionian Sea Port Authority has entrusted Ingemar with the construction of 16 floating docks for the fishing fleet, which will allow safer mooring for 32 vessels and facilitate easier unloading.

The piers are anchored perpendicular to dock 7, which has been thoroughly cleaned and equipped with new painted steel bollards and safety ladders. On the opposite side of the large dock, at dock 5, Ingemar's work included major consolidation and restoration of the dock's vertical walls, the installation of new water and electricity lines, and fenders and bollards for the mooring of larger fishing vessels.

Goito and Volta Mantovana (Mantua)

The two new floating docks within the Mincio Regional Park, designed and built to allow rowing for people with disabilities, are already operational. Both facilities are equipped with engineering solutions for easy access and special harnesses to support the canoes, allowing even disabled athletes to independently and safely complete all boarding and disembarking procedures.

"Recently, to celebrate Ingemar's 45th anniversary," comments CEO Sebastiano Pulina, "we have been committed to optimizing and adapting our design and production capabilities to the changing needs of the markets and our expanding presence in increasingly distant countries. The updates and improvements made to the entire production process and the addition of new, young professionals have helped diversify our scope of operations, expand our commercial presence into new locations, and explore previously unexplored market segments, proposing alternative functions and new uses for our floating structures. This was a significant shift in direction, requiring at times complex steps, but the results are rewarding; today, our organization is even more solid and ready to effectively address new market challenges and achieve even more challenging goals." 

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