The Company

Mission

To contribute to, promote, and preserve railroad heritage through the practice of model railroading.

Vision

To continuously promote the satisfaction of our customers, without ever dissociating it from the constant effort to bring professional and personal fulfillment to our “Internal Customers”.

Goals

To expand the number of products as well as improve the existing ones, seeking to carefully satisfy QUALITY, COST AND PROFITABILITY.

Values

To develop and maintain reliability and loyalty in the “FRATESCHI” brand, guided by an ethical commercial policy and competent industrial activity.

A bit of our history

Few enterprises worldwide — and it is important to say even on a global scale — reach or surpass half a century of activity. This signals results and solidity, but this alone, although far from being little, is not a safe passage to the fullness of rest or the vision of a mission accomplished. There is much more to do and to fulfill, insofar as the same tenacious and persistent work throughout an entire journey only reminds us that its result is the fruit of continuous accomplishment through work. If we have come this far, we also celebrate the path traveled and not only the journey at its destination.

And speaking of journey, Frateschi products represent well an object that by definition has movement, dynamism, and displacement in its existence, both in time and in space. We dedicate ourselves to dealing with a world and a universe: the world surrounding Brazilian railways and the universe that defines them through their admirers, researchers, scholars, modelers and simply enthusiasts.

In 50 years, we have represented through the industrial process of miniatures the current railway reality. We have been able to place ourselves outside of time as we have dealt with all the periods that the 160 years of railroad presence in Brazil have had in their existential scale.

From this existential scale, we are also part of a history that we have seen unfold.

We were, in a way, compilers of a great work, of excerpts written in chapters — the chapters of Brazilian railway existence. We materially and culturally reproduced icons and symbols of a history that was also being built, having development and a noble past as its foundation.

Our public was formed from our product, whose reference became our signature and identity.

In the first 10 years, we established our name. In the first 20 years, we established our purpose. In the first 30 years, we established our goals. In the first 40 years, we established our mission. And in the first 50 years, we established our existence.

Our name was built to become a national industrial and functional reference for Brazilian model railroading. Our purpose was defined so that from this reference we could become part of a scenario of quality and accomplishment for the hobby and of reference for the railroad. Our goal focused on growth without losing balance, taking risks as well as recognizing our limits. Our mission was defined from the moment we reached the stage of recognizing the legitimate desires of our customers, and not merely wants to be satisfied. And our existence? Our existence summarizes the four other decades won, built, conquered and accomplished. It summarizes. It does not limit. It summarizes. It does not close. It summarizes. It does not end. On the contrary — it becomes the scenario of our horizon.

Because if the popular saying states that the future belongs to God, we can say that the present is lent to us and the past is determined for us.

We reach 50 years thanking God first, what before, from His belonging (the future…) was determined for us (in the present…) and today, at this moment, we receive as inheritance (from our accomplished past…) the strength, motivation and commitment so that new conquests and new achievements once again translate the effort and recognition of our public, who accompanies and defines us. And to this public — with all its manifestations, criticism, appreciation, exaggerations and sometimes unfair vision — we dedicate the path we have walked. Without it we would not have our NAME, our PURPOSE, our GOAL, our MISSION and our EXISTENCE.

On this path our successes were not the only ones, and our errors were not all of them. But the joy was just one: that which defines what we are, what we accomplish, what we conquer and what we know we are. We do not waste our time thinking about what defines us. We use our time building the knowledge of what defines us. And the knowledge of what defines us passes through you, MODELER. Remember this.

And time? Well, time… It is simply the most important of all details… without it we would not arrive. Without it we would not do what we are. Without it we would not know how much, only how…

May the years not pass without us first passing through them.

The Frateschi family — in the determined memory of its founder, Galileu Frateschi, in the presence of its realizer, Celso Frateschi, and its manager, Lucas Frateschi; and in the determination of its employees, collaborators, suppliers and merchants — thus reveals the greatest of its launches for 50 years: you, modeler. With the difference that you have never been reduced in scale by us, but enlarged beyond it, because sincerely considered in everything and for everything we have done so far. Because for the next 50 years we will continue to stand firm by the common denominator of all the previous ones: the truth that guides us and the commitment that defines us.

Learn more

• Chronology — The history of Frateschi year by year, since 1958.
• Frateschi 55 Years — Historical aspects and company strategies.
• Tribute to Celso Frateschi — In memory of the second-generation realizer.