Our Purpose

Maccaferri embodies the principles of the Extended Mind, integrating human expertise, digital intelligence, and a global network. This approach transforms the company into an Extended Engineering Mind, continuously leveraging the Adjacent Possible and Exaptation to drive innovation. Maccaferri goes beyond conventional problem-solving, leveraging emergent opportunities and repurposing existing solutions for new challenges.

Since 1879, Maccaferri fosters the ability to combine existing knowledge and technologies in novel ways. Therefore in Maccaferri every new product creates fresh economic niches, leading to further innovation. A continuous tinkering process where existing structures are repurposed and adapted to emerging needs. Within this process, products/solutions serve a specific purpose and later become useful for another. This phenomenon is the business side of a biological process known as exaptation. In Maccaferri, ideas, innovations, outcomes and services are often exaptated: they were not originally designed for their current function, but prove advantageous due to their existing structure.​

Maccaferri is not just an industrial player but a wide web of ingenuous problem solvers. By repurposing knowledge, embracing emergent opportunities, and leveraging its global intelligence network, Maccaferri creates new engineering frontiers, transforming constraints into catalysts for sustainable and innovative infrastructure solutions.​

Maccaferri’s mindset is rooted into a peculiar “capacity of achievement”. This mindset can be defined as a peculiar combination of 3 willingnesses: to blend high-tech with hand-made crafts, to learn from the experimental solutions put in place by our network of worldwide engineer, to grow into expertise. These three attitudes characterise Maccaferri’s action as a makers movement, led by the desire of continuous improvement.