OUR STORY

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A visionary journey

The story that has led to ab medica becoming Italy’s leading manufacturer and distributor of medical technologies, surgical robotics, telemedicine and technological innovation in healthcare is an exciting one.

Excellence, quality and competitiveness are the cornerstones of a history that revolves around the individual and their well-being.

25 January 1984: ab medica was founded

A fun fact: the name ab medica comes from the initials of Aldo Cerruti and his wife Bianca’s first names, with whom he shared a long entrepreneurial journey from the very beginning.

Founder, Aldo Cerruti

With his courage and visionary foresight, he strived to improve the quality of care delivered by Italian hospitals and the Italian healthcare system.

Thanks to his outstanding vision, perseverance and passion, he was able to outrun everyone else to establish a group that is now considered a world leader in technological innovation serving doctors and patients.

Unique was his ability to always stay one step ahead of the pack, thanks to a disproportionate dose of intelligent madness that would infect anyone who crossed his path.

1987 - 2004

The first twenty years: pioneers in minimally-invasive surgery

The resourcefulness, will and passion shown by those at the helm of ab medica opened the door to research into minimally-invasive techniques and technologies, which, to this day, underpins the company’s approach to innovative healthcare solutions.

2008 - 2018

The years of expansion

The driving force towards better patient care has accompanied ab medica in the early decades of the 2000s, characterized by foundations and acquisitions. The arrival of new entities has proven to be vital for the company’s know-how: competence, group identity, and individual units have grown.

Generational transition

In 2019, Aldo Cerruti passed the baton to his daughter, Francesca Cerruti, who had been part of ab medica since she was 21 years of age. She took the helm of a company that is leader of an international group with more than 600 employees across five European countries.

The journey started by my father in 1984 goes on, with the next stop a destination called the future

Francesca Cerruti, CEO

1984 ~ 2024
40° ANNIVERSARY

Over these forty years, together with countless doctors and healthcare professionals, we have become the drivers of stories of challenge, courage and trust, stories that have helped improve the lives of so many people by supporting an idea of increasingly inclusive, sustainable and widespread care.