This story is told by three generations. The senior founders, Fontán, Hartmann and Manfredi, their children and grandchildren. It was 1970 when the founding partners decided to pass on all the knowledge acquired in more than thirty years of work in the field to make their very own company. Back then, Julio Manfredi oversaw production, Enrique Hartmann took care of technical and commercial affairs and Alfredo Fontán directed the administrative work and labour relations. The oldest members of the company still remember the founders touring the factory. Hartmann was always paying attention to every detail, Fontán was talking to each worker and organizing the administration and Manfredi wearing overalls and teaching a new factory operator the care and skill that the winding process requires. At the end of the eighties, Renata Marchiori, the Administrative Manager who had accompanied them from the beginning, would become partner.

FOHAMA was founded as a family business and although it has quadrupled its installed capacity and workforce since 1970, by creating new administrative and managerial areas, the decisions continue to be taken by the people who made it possible for a capital goods factory to remain operational in Argentina, overcoming difficult times such as, periods of low competitiveness, indiscriminate customs trade opening, hyperinflation and other ups and downs. “We continue and expand because our customers trust us. They know that FOHAMA is a guarantee of compliance. We were able to achieve it as from its foundation. FOHAMA invests in FOHAMA: in cutting-edge machinery, in training for our workers. Always dedicated to the manufacturing of electrical transformers. We knew how to keep up to the international technological innovation and the development of the national productive framework” thinks the management of FOHAMA.

FOHAMA began manufacturing the transformers required for rural electrification, allowing the expansion of the brand throughout the national territory. Years later, they began to produce transformers for the oil industry, large industry, mining, and they currently manufacture transformers for wind and solar energy.

The three generations also represent different historical backgrounds of Argentina, which do not follow each other in a linear and overcoming manner, but rather combine and coexist harmoniously.

A first generation of children of immigrant workers, who learned about the industry by practicing the trade and decided to take a chance and set up their own factory. Trained during the period of Import Substitution Industrialization, they trusted in the potential of the activity and managed to have their electrical transformers reach all Argentine provinces.

A second generation were public education graduates that learned to love national industry and advocate for its large-scale development, they were who knew how to overcome the different crises, diversifying its production, but preserving its specificity: the manufacture of electrical transformers.

And finally, a third generation looking from today to twenty years ahead and who is committed to the production of renewable energy. Simply because they understand that the sustainability of the energy industry, as well as the production of goods and services from a more general perspective, requires responsible use of resources and the pledge to a long-term business social policy.

These three visions, experience and skills give FOHAMA its own identity: to be a major Argentine electrical transformer manufacturer that reaches every corner of the country, Latin America, Asia, and North Africa, with transformers of excellence designed and manufactured by Argentines.