Record-year for the Treviso-based lighting company, turnover of 4.4 million euros. From super-luxury ships to museums, here’s how LED pioneers light up iconic shipyards.
The CEO, Alessandro Piovesan: “With light, we give beauty to places.”
It is a bright year for Glip, a company skilled in tailor-made lighting production. Thanks to a series of projects received from abroad, it almost doubled in size. 2023 turnover closed at 3.1 million euros. 2024 raises the bar to 4.4 million (+40%). Employment has benefited by hiring five people and about thirty professionals joining the company. Glip operates now on about 3000 square meters of production space in the headquarters located in Quinto di Treviso, in the Italian Treviso area.
2025 represents a turning point: Rohan Sottana has joined the property as a new partner under the role of senior project manager. He aims to relaunch the brand and the commercial network, relying on a new office based in London. The development will also involve the Italian commercial offices in Lombardy (Milan and Bergamo), Rome and Turin.
“Light is the essence of our life, and our job is to bring light into the spaces we design,” said Alessandro Piovesan and Rohan Sottana. “Our artisanal passion for detail and our ability to industrialize the process of creating these light sources has made us known in Italy over the years. Our ultimate goal is to expand abroad, starting from the London office we recently opened. London is the capital of design and the starting point for us to reach the Middle Eastern markets, Dubai and Abu Dhabi in the first place. We are also trying to bring the Swiss market closer together. Always with the certainty of working in a sartorial way with the Light”.
Glip (the acronym for “Global Lighting Partner”) is unique in the lighting industry for its ability to manage the entire lamp production process internally, including the design level of the chip used to make the systems work. Everything runs using tech innovations, such as sophisticated 3D printers producing tailor-made products customized according to the needs of the environments and places to illuminate. Glip defends its know-how with some specific patents, as in the case of a movement system inside the lamp that – thanks to rotating spools – allows the passage of electrical power. The company has skills in tiny carpentry, with a workshop for processing aluminium extrusions.
Glip’s history began in 1996, a pioneering era for LEDs. The founder, Alessandro Piovesan, was 17 years old and had clear ideas: he wanted to enter the world of light craftsmanship. He was very young, but he had the complete support of his father, Mirto, who supported him in all his choices. And so, starting to work in his garage, he embarked on a path that led him to deal with architects and lighting design. After that, the decision to specialize the company in the realization of increasingly demanding and sophisticated projects using that time brand new LED technology, becoming a “lighting partner” of international projects, also winning the “Venetian Smart Lighting Award” with the Diapason product.
Among the iconic works that made Glip known among the most successful designers, among many we recall the re-lamping of the Benetton megastore in 2008, one of the the first in Italy to be illuminated only by LEDs. During COVID-19, the company also designed a lamp, able to sanitize the air in the environment by eliminating bacteria. A project completed in a short time – to respond to the emergency – which, thanks to the company’s craftsmanship (use of titanium powders), has made it possible to conceive this antibacterial lamp.
