Before traveling, he bought some alembics and boilers, anticipating that, in the colony, such equipment would be a valuable rarity; he also brought hats and fruit tree seedlings, as well as funds from the sale of his farm in Magré.

Once he arrived, he acquired a rural lot and, one year later, a small metalwork shop owned by Francisco Rossi, on Sinimbu Street, where he also set up a business.

He also opened a glass shop and started to offer general repair services, besides selling the agricultural production of the family's land both in Caxias and in Porto Alegre, to where he traveled several times.

[2] In the same year he married Elisa Venzon, a member of a high society family and owner of a windmill and a sawmill, with whom he had José Abramo (Beppin, December 16, 1901), Angelina (04/01/1904), Rosália (January 31, 1906), Julio João (November 21, 1907), Adélia (June 30, 1910), who was the first queen of the Grape Festival, and Zaíra and Lília (April/1919).

[3][1] Besides becoming one of the biggest businessmen in the state, Abramo got involved in politics, assuming the position of vice-intendent for several periods in the administrations of Vicente Rovea, José Penna de Moraes, and Celeste Gobbato,[1] participating in municipal commissions to deal with various issues,[4][5] and being a member of the Directory of the Liberal Republican Party.

[6] He received the rank of colonel in the National Guard[7] and aligned himself with the fascist ideology, which in the 1920s–1930s had great penetration in the colonial region and played an important role in the formation of the collective identity of Italians, based on concepts of progress, discipline, work, and hierarchy.

[8][9][10][2] For many years, Abramo started his workday by personally ringing a bell in front of the company, calling not only the employees to work, but marking the routine of the entire central region of Caxias.

[2] Valentin Lazzarotto said that the force of tradition prevented the formation of class consciousness among the workers; strikers could be punished or fired and leftist ideologies could not proliferate in the factory environment, a reality that was not, however, unique to Eberle.

At the same time, the metallurgical company was requested by the Federal Government to "serve the Homeland" in the war effort, producing swords, rapiers, and sabers for the Brazilian Expeditionary Force.

In 2003, the groups were merged, resulting in Mundial S.A.[15] On the top of the company's headquarters building, in downtown Caxias do Sul, a small wooden house, a replica of Abramo's first metalwork shop, shows how much the immigrant's dream has grown.

Abramo was favored by flourishing in a period of accelerated growth in Caxias do Sul, but while many other entrepreneurs in the city had meteoric careers that took them very high but went bankrupt in a matter of a decade or two, much of his continued success was due to his great adaptability to an economic and social context that varied greatly over the years, adopting production methods that were constantly being updated and frequently varying the product line according to the needs of the markets.

[16] The power of his company played a central role in the industrialization of the state's highland region, stimulating markets and partnerships and mobilizing a large workforce, which was a decisive impulse for the formation of the metalworking pole in the city, one of the largest in Brazil today.

Furthermore, it is important to note the construction of a myth that served to reinforce the authority of the local businessmen: the idea of material and moral wealth conquered through hard but dignified human labor.

On the pediment of the mill owned by the immigrant Aristides Germani (established in Caxias at the end of the 19th century), for example, a high relief announced: LABOR OMNIA VINCIT (work conquers all).

Fifty years later, this lamp is a symbol, the initial force of fifteen thousand types of objects created by the magnificent hand that made it, tiny and faithful.

[...] Statue, party, street name, bronze plaque, money, baptism of a skyscraper, speech, banquet, ball, everything passes or everything remains without expression in the collective memory.