Giancarlo Losma is the son of a machine tool dealer, and, as it often happens to whomever breaths the scent of shavings, he very quickly became impassionate with the world of mechanics.
"I wanted to realize an intelligent product not yet diffused on the Italian market. I wished for something of mine but still within the machine tools.
One day I came across a German extractor fan, which, as I was to learn sometime later, derived from an American model. At the time it looked as if it were something intelligent: It was handling problems such as environment and hygiene in working areas, which, at the time, were not a major consideration. Furthermore, it was a product not in tune with corporate thinking of the time.
That was at the beginning of the seventies, and even if there were enlightened entrepreneurs, who already wanted to tackle that problem, the wanting of a legislation on the environment and hygiene in working areas left that matter rather out of people’s feelings.
The mentality and the sensibility towards those themes were missing: I was convinced that the computers, the robots and the ecology would have been at the centre of human development, and there I was, ready and with the possibility of moving in these directions. So I tried."

The associative activity has an important role in Giancarlo Losma’s life. Furthermore the proximity of the air filtration world to that of machine tools is evident, and to make this relationship even livelier, Losma has added another production line to that which he dedicated to the air since his business activity moved its first steps: the production of filtering systems for lubrication - refrigerating liquids. The entering into UCIMU in 1986 was therefore, inevitable.

"I am convinced that the associative participation is as fundamental as social ethic within a company is. We operate in our town social issues through art; but we also have other wide ranging activities, such as sponsoring deprived children or the support of various humanitarian projects worldwide. I couldn’t perceive the entrepreneur’s role devoid of such a social activity. It is unconceivable thinking of a firm that limits its performance within the constraints of working walls."