From analogue to digital:
over 30 years of innovation

Our strength is process knowledge. We don't just sell a sensor — we provide solutions.

LGE takes its first steps in 1996, introduced to the market in support of a leading Italian industrial reality, the former ITA Service S.p.A., mainly focused on industrial services, automation, instrumentation and the supply of industrial spare parts. The group's skills had been honed in the previous decades as resident contractor in the national Italian steel plants (former Italsider, then ILVA). The ambition of LGE founders was to create a small, flexible and effective group of highly qualified technical experts with diverse interests, able to provide the best solution for specific process problems — such as researching alternative and modern solutions to keep obsolete equipment alive.

Back in the mid-nineties, LGE had the opportunity to digitise a large number of measurement systems (manufactured during the 1960s and 1970s by the US-based companies Measuray, Sheffield and Bendix, operating worldwide) in order to replace the analogue section with a modern computer. At that time, the use of computers in industry was in its infancy, just as the adoption of software with a graphical user interface — which would later become the norm — was only just beginning. As first in the industry, LGE used Microsoft Windows as HMI in this type of system, when DOS-based or proprietary systems were the only alternative.

In 1997, we used Windows as the operating system for the operator interface of our systems in the main Italian steel plants.

In 1999, participating as a founding minority member of Global Gauge Corporation — one of the world's leading companies for non-contact measurement on flat metal products, still a key technical partner today — LGE has carried out operational activities relating to measurement, process control and process optimisation for decades, maintaining strong technical talent that has followed technological evolution over time.

The choice of simplicity, innovation and openness has been in LGE's DNA since inception. We don't make everything and we don't sell everything: we make just what we do well.

In 2005, again as a first, we developed and tested the first fully digital gauging system — the ancestor of our most modern solutions — with its first installation on an aluminium plant in China in 2006.

In 2017, with the birth of the nGauge family of systems, we standardised and unified the various solutions by making them managed by a single software tool capable of acquiring multi-protocol data from sensors and higher levels — in practice managing different types of solutions with a single software.

Today, our solutions are appreciated all over the world and remain the most modern, reliable and precise available. Our solutions are well known to last longer: we still service 30-year-old systems, still functional and still efficient. The choice of simplicity, innovation and openness has been in LGE's DNA since inception and, even when it was not free of initial difficulties, has allowed us to be one step ahead today.

We remain specialised. Innovation has always been an absolute priority, together with reliability. We don't make everything and we don't sell everything: we make just what we do well.