The idea of starting an industrial activity on the Oglio riversides, originates from the wiseness of the Cantonis, textile enterprisers of the Milanese area, who mandated and financed their thirty years-old resourceful collaborator, Giulio Sacconaghi.
Besides the desire of creating prestigious companies of important size, Eugenio Cantoni was even more interested in the project of giving our Nation a complete emancipation from foreign countries; for this reason he started fabrications which, for the technical complexity of the relative productive process, nobody in Italy had ever experienced yet. Sacconaghi’s factory for velvets production situated in Pontoglio, was one of the companies which Mr Cantoni became more involved in.
The first twisting and weaving systems started to run on June 5th 1883 but, from that moment on, there were constant investments to enlarge and innovate in a challenge that, after more than a century, still characterizes what now is no more called "Manifattura Pontoglio" but "Pontoglio S.p.A". The company had a very proprietorial management for almost one century: after the premature death of Mr. Sacconaghi, Pietro Taschini succeeded. He had been a partner and a friend since the beginning of the adventure in the velvet production and, in 1922, he changed the name of the company into "S.A. Manifattura di Pontoglio Sacconaghi e Taschini", endowing it with a fund of 3 million lire. The years of World War II recorded numerous variations in the company’s structure and in its organization; in 1944 its name became "Manifattura di Pontoglio S.p.A.". This denomination was maintained until 1985, when the firm joined the Pecci Group from Florence.
The company was endowed with a more solid fund and changed its name into "Pontoglio S.p.A.".
This represented the beginning of the "Modern Era"  of the company, which restarted to invest energies and resources. Nowadays, "Pontoglio S.p.A." is a company that pays a great attention to the technological innovation  processes and to the experimental researches on the product; this is the reason why it is considered as a reference company in the production of velvets and moleskins.