The Bettetini family has Swiss origins, having emigrated to Milan, from where they settled another 100 years ago on the Island of San Giulio on Lake Orta. They are related to various families on both coasts. In 1961, they sold the villa on the island to pursue Giogio Bettetini's passion for boats and his father Enrico's camping business.
The family purchased a 2,000-square-meter warehouse in Novara. At the time, the city was a business hub with important connections between Milan and Turin, and from there to Rome and Berlin. The lathes chosen for their work were cutting-edge, imported by Swiss relatives, demonstrating their reputation for quality. Today, they furnish our heritage office.
The common people also needed stoves, hence the collaboration with the German company Juno Buderus to obtain the necessary components. We added piezo ignition, hence the origin of the company's first name, "Elettrogas Novarese."
In 1982, Giorgio, together with engineer Roxas, created the first shower with an on/off lever, our code 82. Other versions, the 83 and 85, followed. These showers underwent several revisions over time, based on popular demand, until they were made partly of brass and partly of nylon to ensure quality.
In 1983, market demand outstripped internal capacity, and collaborative relationships were established with other families on Lake Orta: Poletti, Fiumicello, Barbotti/Allegri, Teruggi, Tonati and many others firms.
In 1996, the family sold their first warehouse and built a smaller one, capable of housing the new CNC lathes, initially used to make carbide tools, then brass faucet and valve components.
In 1998 Giorgio and Franca, my parents, asked me to leave my government job to become self-employed, to face life in a perhaps more complicated but comprehensive way.
I had university research behind me, decades of collaborating on projects with architects, engineers, and factories.
Years of investing in equipment, additional machinery and new molds followed.
The significant introduction of computers has sparked from 1984 an increasingly close collaboration between man and machine. |  |
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