History

Milestones from the foundation at the end of the XIX century.

Registration at the local Chamber of commerce. Bocciolone starts up in Valduggia. The founder of the Company, Basilio Bocciolone, is a coppersmith specialized in manufacturing copper still for coffee machines and distillation process.

The company attends its first exhibition in Biella and receives the certificate of participation still visible today in the showroom of the company. The company suffers a decline during the second world war.

After the second world war the son of the founder, Aldo, enhances his father business. He begins the production of the fire nozzle in copper based on a manual process starting from the manual bending of copper sheets followed by a welding operation, to get a tapered section of the pipe.

A further enhancement of the activity comes from the ability of the daughter of Aldo, Caterina. After the sudden death of the father she buys a modern swaging machine to start the serial production of the copper fire nozzle to get the tapered pipe directly from the commercial copper tube without welding operation anymore.

For reason of space Bocciolone moves to the new bigger factory in Valduggia.

Bocciolone is awarded by the local Chamber of Commerce with the gold medal for 72 years of activity. The company buys new machines and expands the production range to satisfy the demand of the growing firefighting market: valves, couplings, hose systems are an example of the new items which Bocciolone develops and manufactures.

The privately-owned company Bocciolone Aldo becomes a stock company. The husband of Caterina, Dario Galletti, lawyer, helps Caterina to reorganize the Company. He follows directly the administration and the selling network. A further extension of the factory increases the building size to 4.000 sqm.

The suns Paolo e Stefano Galletti join the parents in the management of the company. The company starts his export activity participating international exhibitions and developing agreements all over Europe. The Company sits at Italian and European technical committees to draw up the new European standards for firefighting equipment.

During celebration of 100 years of activity the new headquarter is inaugurated to satisfy growing production needs. The 8000 sqm of covered premises for offices, larger production area for machining centers, assembly and testing, are located in the new industrial area of Varallo. Here Bocciolone opens the cast iron division to manufacture pillar and underground hydrants. During this year the whole company moves to the new site.

Bocciolone achieves the prestigious ISO Quality certification 9002 and few years later the extension to ISO 9001 following a positive assessment carried out by CSI.

Bocciolone buys a new facility nearby of 3000 sqm to open the steel division. In this factory the new automatic production line can produce up to 50.000 cabinets per year.

Bocciolone achieves CE marking for products under Construction Product Directive.

Bocciolone acquires an important competitor, RIGEF and buys a new building of 3000 sqm to better manage the storehouse of raw materials.

Bocciolone invests in renewable energy by installing on the roof of the headquarters a photovoltaic system of 200 KW.

Bocciolone is awarded historical company by Italian Chamber of Commerce. In the same year Bocciolone is reported as “innovative company” by Italian Chamber of Commerce thanks to ongoing research and advanced design activities.

The Bocciolone image is renewed with a new organization and high efficiency production concepts. Stefano Galletti becomes CEO of the company.

Bocciolone starts a digital revolution of the company. New machine lines are integrated to MES and MRP systems enabling smart automation technology of the whole production process.

Acquisition of another strategic competitor Rack System takes place. This step is relevant in terms of completing the production range that the company can offer, considering Rack system is specialized in manufacturing of plastic products and fire extinguishers. In the meantime, the photovoltaic plant is extended to 400 Kw.