Aermec 🇮🇹

Aermec was founded in 1961 by Giordano Riello, grandson of one of the brothers who in 1922 had created the Officine Fratelli Riello of Legnago, the house of burners. Giordano deliberately stepped away from the family business to devote himself to something that in Italy at the time barely existed: air conditioning. The company was born in Bevilacqua (Verona) as Riello Condizionatori s.a.s., manufacturing for third parties, and in 1963 adopted the Aermec brand and launched its first window air conditioners.

In the seventies the small groups of chilled water and fan coils arrived, the product that would make it a world leader; in the eighties the medium coolers up to 150 kW and the air‑treatment units; in the nineties the large machines over 2 MW and the ISO 9001 certification; in 2002 the Omnia fan‑coil family for residential use. Aermec also claims to be a pioneer in Europe in the construction of splits.

Today the Bevilacqua factory occupies about 220,000 m² with nearly a thousand employees, and the Giordano Riello International Group exceeds 700 million euros in turnover with more than 2,000 people and nine brands. In 2025 it bought the Spanish group Airlan, its historic distributor based in Bilbao. Giordano Riello, whom the press called “the father of air‑conditioners in Italy,” died in May 2023 at the age of 97; he was also a pioneer of workplace well‑being and referred to his employees as “collaborators.”

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