Italcertifer S.p.A

Italcertifer is an affiliated company of Gruppo Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane, but totally independent of it; the company has inherited extensive knowledge in the rail and transport industry from this group. Four major Italian universities (Polytechnic University of Milan, University of Pisa, University of Florence and University of Naples), which are also stakeholders into the company, further expand the company's range of expertise by establishing a center for excellence in rail verification of conformity and safety. Italcertifer enters the future with a strongly consolidated body of experience and its newly adopted structure of independently operating divisions; the company is expanding further into industries such as the recreational marine industry and as a Learning Service Provider delivering vocational and technical training courses for maintenance engineers of rolling stock safety devices. The courses are easily and freely available to all workers operating in the rail industry. The actual Italcertifer's CEO is Carmine Zappacosta.