Founded in 2013 from an entrepreneurial idea of engineers Patrizio Cuomo (CEO and Permanent Advisor of the Industrial Union of Naples), and Mario De Vivo (Technical Director), PRO&NG is a highly specialised Neapolitan company offering the market engineering services in the fields of telecommunications network design for cellular telephony and FTTH, renewable energies (photovoltaic plants, wind power plants, cabins and power lines) and also operates in the construction, civil and mechanical engineering sectors. Finally, it also performs all professional activities such as Works Management, Safety Coordination during the design and execution of works. Thanks to a strategic vision and highly specialised know-how, this all-Italian excellence – which celebrates 10 years of existence this year – has managed to assert its leadership in a highly competitive and constantly evolving market.
by Roberta Imbimbo
Mr Cuomo, with what mission was PRO&NG born?
In its early years, the company focused its core business on the design of cellular telephony systems: the management had in fact decided to address its offer to a particular sector that at that time offered great growth prospects, thanks to the affirmation of 4G and 5G technologies that were much more avant-garde than their predecessors. Thanks to an innovative vision, the company subsequently expanded its core business to other strategic activities (such as FTTH design); a far-sighted choice that has allowed us to grow in a linear manner at first, then exponentially, both in terms of turnover (in the last three years it has literally quadrupled) and in terms of organisational structure (today it has about 150 highly qualified employees) and geographical expansion with the opening of the operational offices in Rome and Milan and the start of an important internationalisation process, mainly in Brazil. Today, PRO&NG is a multidisciplinary engineering company operating both in Italy and abroad, capable of taking care of every project at 360 degrees, from the inspection phase to the design phase up to the construction site phase, i.e. the Supervision of Works.
With an eye on the future, over the years PRO&NG has further differentiated its core business, successfully penetrating the Renewable Energy sector.
Exactly. Thanks to highly specialised know-how, PRO&NG is now able to take care of turnkey planning of wind and photovoltaic plants. In this field, our engineers have, for example, designed Europe’s largest photovoltaic plant, built on the runways of Fiumicino airport: an ambitious project, destined to bring added value to an airport hub that has decided to focus on digitisation, security, innovation and environmental sustainability. On the electric mobility front, our mission is also to contribute to the planning to have an efficient system of recharging infrastructures throughout the country to enable an ecological transition to electric mobility. PRO&NG is also one of the few companies in Europe that contributes to the design of NATO bases in Europe and the Middle East. In order to better manage this operational revolution, which has enabled us to clearly differentiate ourselves from other market players, PRO&NG has decided to structure itself even more adequately by also investing in resources with high skills, such as Dr. Fabrizio Nanni, a high-profile manager with enormous international experience in the telecommunications sector. Thanks to this new corporate identity, PRO&NG aims to successfully penetrate new strategic markets and to further consolidate its presence in Italy, investing in innovation and digitalisation to be an increasingly qualified and reliable partner, able to proactively anticipate the technological needs of a rapidly evolving market and to maximise customer satisfaction, which has always been its priority objective!
