Prior to becoming a
joint-stock company in 1988, MER MEC was known as Meridional Meccanica, which began in the 1960s. Meridional Meccanica began making railway maintenance vehicles in the early 1980s and after incorporating focused all of its attention to the railway market. In the early 1990s MER MEC, in cooperation with the main Italian research institutes, developed an opto-electronic system for the automatic inspection of railway infrastructure conditions. The 1990s also saw the prototype of the ROGER vehicle which is an acronym for
Rilievo Ottico Geometria Rotaia, Italian for optical
rail geometry control. In 1997 MER MEC produced the ROGER 1000, a self-propelled vehicle for
rail track and
overhead line inspection. On June 17, 2023, MERMEC, led by the President
Vito Pertosa, represented Italy at the
G7 Transport Ministers' Meeting in
Ise-Shima,
Mie. == Certifications ==