Breton (company)

Breton S.p.A. is an Italian privately held company established in 1963[1][2] that produces machines and plants for engineered stone[3] and metalworking. Machines and plants by Breton can be used in diverse sectors such as die-making, aerospace, automotive, racing cars, energy, gears, general mechanics, stone processing and kitchen top manufacturing.[4][5]

Breton S.p.A.
TypePrivate
IndustryManufacturing
FoundedCastello di Godego, Italy (1963 (1963))
FounderMarcello Toncelli
Headquarters
Castello di Godego
,
Italy
Area served
Worldwide
Products
  • plants for producing composite stone
  • machines for processing natural stone
  • machines for processing ceramic materials
  • cnc machining centres for high-speed machining
Websitebreton.it

History

Breton was established in 1963 in Castello di Godego, Italy, by Marcello Toncelli,[6] who started developing new technologies and manufacturing industrial plants for producing engineered stone.[7] Marcello Toncelli invented the Bretonstone technology, also known as vibrocompression under vacuum, a patented technology [8][9] which is used today by most engineered stone manufacturers.[10] Around the mid 1990s the company decided to enter also into the machine tool market, manufacturing machining centres for the mechanical industry.

In 2003 Marcello Toncelli, Breton's founder, died, and the control of the company passed to his sons Luca and Dario Toncelli, who since then have been running the company together with the founder's long-time partner, Roberto Chiavacci, Vice President of the Board of Directors.

In 2011 the company acquired Bideseimpianti and signed a partnership with Boart & Wire, diamond wires manufacturer.[11][12] In 2014 Breton became an official member of the Graphene Flagship Project, one of the largest research initiative of the European Commission[13] which focuses on the potential applications of graphene.

Products

Breton manufactures machines and technology for following fields:

  • engineered stone processing
  • natural stone processing[14]
  • ceramic materials processing
  • high-speed machining for aerospace, formula 1, automotive and die-mould sector

Awards
  • Windows Embedded Partner Excellence Award

Breton's solution to connect through the cloud to manage tele-service for 4,000 machines for hundreds of customers worldwide has been awarded in 2012 by Microsoft with the Windows Embedded Partner Excellence Award for manufacturing.[15][16]

Footnotes
  1. "Company profile Breton S.p.a." www.hoovers.com/. Hoovers a D&B Company. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
  2. "Company overview of Breton S.p.A." investing.businessweek.com/. BusinessWeek.com. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
  3. "Stone Equipment". www.dmoz.org/. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
  4. Impelluso, Thomas J. "Italian machines that make machines". www.utsandiego.com/. The San Diego Union-Tribune. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
  5. Impelluso, Thomas J. "Italian Machines That Make Machines". mechanical.sdsu.edu/. San Diego State University - NewsCenter. Archived from the original on 21 October 2014. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
  6. "Marcello Toncelli Biography". Retrieved 14 July 2014.
  7. Moriarty, Ann Marie. "Diamonds Are Forever. These Counters May Be Too" (PDF). The Washington Post. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 May 2006. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
  8. "Process for the manufacturing of slabs or blocks of conglomerate of stone granulate and polyester resin". patents.justia.com/. Justia Patents. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
  9. "United States Patent No. US8,030,441 B2" (PDF). Retrieved 28 February 2014.
  10. Technology used by most leading engineered stone manufacturers - according to International Surface Fabricators Association Archived April 8, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  11. "Newsline: Technology supplier Breton of Italy acquires Bideseimpianti". www.stoneworld.com/. Stone World.com. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
  12. "Breton Acquires Wire-Saw Maker Bideseimpiani". www.stoneupdate.com/. Stone update. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
  13. "Commission announces huge new influx of partners to the Graphene Flagship project". europa.eu/. European Commission. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
  14. "Machinery : Breton Shapemill NCF". www.naturalstonespecialist.com/. Natural Stone Specialist. Archived from the original on 3 April 2015. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
  15. Javnozon, Dan. "Microsoft Honors Winners of the Windows Embedded Partner Excellence Awards". Msdn.com. Retrieved 28 February 2014.
  16. "Custom Manufacturer of Stone Products Improves Productivity by 30 Percent". Microsoft.com. Retrieved 13 April 2014.
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