About Us

Founded by Cav. Carlo Ilotte in 1974, as a spin-off of his family’s group, started as a producer of zippers, with all processes integrated: from textile to plastic and metal.

The sliders were made from Zamak, produced with casting machines developed internally. In the 1980’s, Carlo Ilotte saw an opportunity of proposing the technology developed to produce the sliders also to the automotive and computer industries. And thanks to such vision, the journey into the die-casting business started. Carlo’s success led to the expansion of the productions, integrating different technologies such as the casting of aluminum, machining, coating, heat treatment, and assembling.

Carlo and his son, Vincenzo, thanks to a young, dynamic team, brought the company to become the first Italain aluminum die-caster and was recognized as a major OEM and started a globalization process which led to the opening of subsidiaries in China and the USA (2A USA, located in Auburn, Alabama).

Carlo Ilotte, CEO

Roughly ten years later, the company arrived to start to sell its own casting technology to the national automotive and computer application industries. In order to cater to growing customer demand, who were asking for bigger  parts made by aluminum alloys, in 1989, 2A acquired four different foundries and then consolidated them. Today, 2A became the first Italian aluminum die-casting foundry and owns the largest European set of extra-large die-casting machines, including one GIGA machine and has a global presence. existing die-casting presses worldwide and has a global presence. Below is a brief timeline of our growth: