In Piedmont’s wine country, near the town of Alba in northern Italy, steep hills dot nearby horizons, famous for Barolo grapes. Castles loom, standing sentry over vineyards, alongside one company that’s changing track and field.
Mondo doesn’t just make tracks. Its roughly 100 employees—among them: chemists, engineers and physicists—fashion some of the world’s fastest, for Olympic Games and world championships. They are surfaces that can change slightly in shape, color and material but never shift in their shared overall focus to please the world’s best with the factor they most care about: speed.
