Salvatore Munnia was born in Switzerland 1911.
Moved to Italy in young age, Salvatore began his work experience as a simple worker in the high precision mechanical industry.
In 1940, at the beginning of World War II, his strong entrepreneurial spirit, helps him to establish the OMLAT as a small mechanical reality located in Turin.Starting with only one lathe and a grinding machine begins for OMLAT the era of spindles for machine tools, achieving step by step more and more prestige in this field, first on a national level, then worldwide.