From the very outset ESA has stood out in Italy as one of the most highly qualified, best organized companies in the field of corrosion protection (cathodic protection).

For approximately four years ESA has been working in the field of cathodic protection. It has added a new corporate sector to study, develop and sell maintenance solutions (called "m@nutentive" solutions) that use the Smart Point® System, a Swiss patent.

Besides having consolidated its presence on the Cathodic Protection market, ESA works as a System Integrator in the field of electronic labeling, creating projects involving item and activity traceability. Thus it contributes to recovering efficiency and wastes in the management and operation of plants and systems. Today Gino Esposito has become majority shareholder of Smart Point® SA headquartered in Geneva and is Chairman of the Board of Directors. Naturally this will greatly facilitate ESA's operations, not only protecting and better supporting its work, but also extending its commercial influence throughout Europe.

ESA's major customers include Trenitalia S.p.A., Genio della Marina Militare, R.F.I., Alfa Romeo, Italgas, Napoletanagas, the Italian Institutes of Health (Istituto Superiore di Sanità) to name just a few. The ESA staff is designing a series of revolutionary applications in conjunction with these companies.

ESA invests in the ongoing training of its personnel, to ensure that they are certified and enrolled as required by UNI standards for Cathodic Protection technicians or Quality certification in compliance with UNI EN ISO 9002, recently converted to the updated 9000:2000.

To date, ESA has invested only its own resources in Research and Development (R&D). Now it will continue its research with the aid of the Ministry of Production Activities which will provide ESA a three million Euro project grant for the research and development of applications linked to the Smart Point® patent.

The project for maintenance solutions called Le soluzioni m@nutentive calls for research and development of practical applications for the operation and maintenance of plants and instruments. Various sectors have already been earmarked for study including the military, railway, health care, naval, nuclear, Public Utilities and industrial sectors.

For each of these sectors, consultants are studying the criticalities of the management processes in order to enhance, and increasingly simplify the management and maintenance systems, making them more economic and more efficient.