To research, design and develop more and more advanced solutions to the problems aimed at solving problems tied to erosion control and soil stabilisation: Officine Maccaferri has decided its company mission which means to study thoroughly and understand the forces regulating the environment equilibrium. Thanks to this constant research and to our exclusive know-how, result of more than one century of experience (Officine Maccaferri born in 1879 in Zola Predosa-Bologna), we have always been able to guarantee diversified solutions that take into account natural balances of rivers, climate, soil morphology, materials and resources available. River defence, mountain stabilisation, road consolidation, rockfall netting protection, channel linings, dams, hydraulic protections, landfills……all over the world Maccaferri is synonym of these and others works. An intervention area almost infinite where alongside the traditional gabions, mattresses and reinforced soil made of double twisted wire netting, Maccaferri is now using geosynthetics, biomats, materials for rapid greening, always obtaining specific and optimum solutions also by the environmental point of view. This is the challenge of Officine Maccaferri: an involvement in every phase of its activity from design to the installation phase as well as to materials used in its works.