GMR ENLIGHTS is an established Italian lighting manufacturer with over 25 years of experience in the field of street lighting and street furniture.
We use a careful selection of components to ensure a high-level product and to provide our customers with excellent quality standards.
As a result, our product range is covered by all statutory or conventional warranty conditions.
Tradition, design and performance: a history of innovation since 1863.
The beginnings of our activity date back to 1863, when Cassa dei Risparmi di Forlì purchased the shares of “Società Anonima per l’illuminazione a gas della città di Forlì”.
The company changed its name to “Officine di Forlì” and became one of the first private industries in Romagna and founder of the city’s industrial movement.
The actual evolution took place in 1895 when the factory became the property of the engineer Enrico Forlanini, who built a gas lighting system for the entire city of Forlì, up until then lit by few and malfunctioning oil lamps.
In 1958 the plant was acquired by Bartoletti Spa which, in 1987 with the company Fondart di Bertinoro, owned by the Ravaioli family, established a new company called Fonderie di Forlì Spa.
It was at this time that the heritage of drawings and projects created between the end of the nineteenth century and the 1930s was rediscovered in the archives of “Officine di Forlì” and which would become the point of reference and inspiration for the nascent Ghisamestieri.
In 1992, following the extensive crisis that affected the foundry sector, Fonderie di Forlì Spa ceased its activity and at the beginning of 1993 Ghisamestieri stood in and took over the business.
Thus began the works of restoration of cast iron poles in the squares and historic centres of the most beautiful and important cities in Italy, such as Venice, Palermo, Naples and Milan.
From the private friendship between Leardo Ravaioli, the founder of Ghisamestieri, and Dino Gavina, one of the most important business figures in the Italian furniture sector, the idea of combining experience and production skills to create a line of high-design urban furniture was conceived.
This experience and the consequent partnership with designers of international calibre, architects, planners and experts in the lighting sector have led to a growing integration between technical experimentation and design, craftsmanship and industry, laying the foundations for the multidisciplinarity and creative originality that characterises our work.
Ghisamestieri develops the first modular LED technology system and applies it to its own heritage of discharge lighting fixtures.
This is how an innovative collection was created, combining artistic design and technological innovation and based on a well-defined design philosophy whose cornerstones are safety, efficiencyand environmental sustainability.
2016 is a turning point for Ghisamestieri.
On the occasion of light+building, the world reference trade fair in the field of lighting, the new line of lightecture LED road and urban products is presented, which lays the foundations for the “Total Lighting Solution”, the company philosophy still pursued today.
lightecture marks the beginning of a great change for Ghisamestieri that begins to extend its range of products beyond artistic and classical lighting, for which it has always been and continues to be an industry leader.
The company opens up new opportunities and pushes itself towards an increasingly international market.
08.06.2020 – After a long history, GhisaMestieri is renewed.
GMR ENLIGHTS is born: a brand that keeps its origins and know-how intact, but which opens up to its international vocation and to new sectors of professional lighting.
A name in line with the new lighting needs of a constantly evolving smart world , projected towards a sustainable future.
The GMR SMARTWAY business unit is born with the aim of combining our “smart” products with innovative services for the smart management of cities