Oil Control was founded in 1973 in Italy with the aim of supplying motion control valves to an emerging mobile machinery market which was then importing products almost exclusively from the USA.
The technical recognition earned by the R&D department, combined with a dynamic commercial strategy made the company a leader in domestic markets and put positioned it to concentrate on developing foreign markets, initially around Europe. The same group people, in the following years, created a number of other companies, dedicated to the design and manufacturing of other compact hydraulics components: Edi System, Tarp and Oil Sistem were thus created. Built on close technological partnership with some of the world foremost construction and agricultural OEM’s, these companies grew in product breadth and manufacturing capability, until, in 1998, they formed the Oil Control Group which, two years later, acquired Oleodinamica LC.

In service to an expanding global market place, investment in satellite facilities around the planet pushed the ready availability of product and support further abroad. At the same time, the Group’s technical expertise was widened, moving beyond the traditional counterbalance valves for cranes and aerial platforms, into valve solutions capable of addressing the full depth of the mobile hydraulics market.

In April 2005 the Oil Control Group changed its name in Bosch Rexroth Oil Control S.p.A. and entered a new and exciting part of its history by becoming part of Rexroth AG.