01
1980s
Sphera, the suitcase you could push with one finger.
The suitcases that left Italy &
never stopped travelling
1940’S, NEAR PADUA
It began with a one way ticket.
After the war, in the countryside near Padua, Antonio Roncato and his wife Palmira started making bags and suitcases by hand. Their customers were Italian emigrants, families boarding ships for countries they had never seen, carrying everything they owned in a single case. Antonio understood something the industry still forgets.
CAMPODARSEGO, PROVINCE OF PADUA, 1974
A factory built by
A factory built by
a family.
The third generation of Roncato’s
to put their name on your luggage.
Roncato is not a brand that was bought, licensed or revived. It is a family company in its third generation. Giovanni passed the business to his four children, Alessandra, Andrea, Cristiano and Enrico, who run it today from Campodarsego. When your surname is moulded into every shell that leaves the factory, quality stops being a department and becomes a matter of pride.
Fifty years of refusing to rush.
02
2000s
Shuttle, the first Made in Italy trolley, with patented handle and closing systems.
03
2007
SUNO SL, the first upright in the world to combine a polypropylene band with a polycarbonate shell.
04
2011
Light, the first polypropylene trolley made in Italy.
03
2015
Box, the lightest polypropylene Roncato had ever used, and still a best seller today.
Made in Italy
Plenty of luggage is designed in Europe and built somewhere cheaper. Roncato’s core hard-shell collections are designed and produced in Campodarsego, tested in the company’s own laboratories, protected by its own patents and certified to ISO 9001. Every measurement published on this site comes from those laboratories. When a Roncato says Made in Italy, it means the suitcase and the sentence were made in the same building.
Built to last
Roncato moulds its shells from polypropylene, a fully recyclable material that takes less energy to produce than most alternatives. The Relife collection goes further, weaving its fabric from RPET recycled plastic bottles: around 55 bottles for a cabin case, 91 for a medium, 116 for a large. A suitcase built to survive twenty years of baggage handlers should not cost the planet its future.
Now boarding in South Africa.
This is the official home of Roncato in South Africa. Every case ships to your door across the country, carries the full Roncato guarantee, extendable to 5 or 10 years when you register within 60 days, and is backed by the same standards set in Campodarsego. Italy made it. You take it from here.
up to 10 year
guarantee
designed in italy
since 1974
TSA approved
looks
free delivery
over R1000
