1978    The Billow company is formed by Lucio Cecotti, shaper of window surf boards. “NOW AS THEN BY CHOICE AND BY VOCATION”.

1982    The first “vacuum system” window surf board with a polystyrene core and laminated  with epoxy resins are produced.

1984    The first “Clark-Foam” sheets/plates , K-gass material  and very transparent resins for surf board construction arrive from the United States.

1985    Lucio returns from a trip to Paris with a strange board called “snurfer”, the future snowboard. Almost as a hobby, he starts a small production for some friends, which becomes a real work in 1990.

1986    He builds the first “sandwich” boards, with termanto  and a polystyrene core.

1987    He builds the first boards with a wooden core, soles  in PTEX and thin steel plates . Up to that time, the board without thin plates allowed a use only on fresh snow.

1988    He participates with Billow boards to the first Italian championships of Speed in windsurf, held at Palau in Sardinia. He reaches the third position, while the first female position goes to Maurizia Lenardon, on a Billow board.

1989    He runs for the World Cup Speed at Tőnning, in Germany, and gets to the 11th position.

1994    For a company making hang gliders, he participates to the project and then builds one of the first gliders with a rollaway  engine in the ULM category/class . The fuselage is made of  composite  and the wings in a “sandwich” of  carbon fibre and fibreglass .

1997    He starts working for “Morotto  Ski” as a technician in the snowboard section. Together with two ski teachers he participates to the project and then builds very short carving  skis called “snow cleaver”.
 

1999    Drawing on the windsurf and snowboard construction techniques, he starts building some really  good kite boards.

2000    He starts co-operating with the companies “Aerostudi”, in the Aerospace sector, and “Compositex”, in the aeronautical and F1 sector.

 

2005    He enters the nautical sector and builds rudders, lande , walls , flying bridges , etc. in carbon pre-preg .