Carpigiani is an Italian company, located near

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, specialising in the production of

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and

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machines. It has approximately 35% of the global market share, which includes both machines for the production of Italian artisan gelato and those for the production of soft serve gelato and ice cream."...and a sweet success; Italian champions (2).(A thriving producer of ice-cream churns)"
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History

Brothers Bruto and Poerio Carlo Carpigiani created the "Gastecnica S.a.s dei fratelli Carpigiani" in 1944. Carpigiani produced and patented a gelato machine, named "Autogelatiera". The Carpigiani soft serve ice cream machines make a fluffy, whippy ice cream due to their clever whipping action, mixing air and ice cream mix, during the ice cream making process. The technological growth in the 1960s brought Carpigiani to become the worldwide leader in ice cream machinery, with the invention of the "hard-o-matic". In 1964 an American secondary company was founded with the name Coldelite U.S.A. and in 1971 Carpigiani bought Cattabriga (concurrent firm). In 1989 the Comenda Ali S.p.A. group bought the Carpigiani Bruto S.p.A., now becom
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In 1993 Carpagiani was certified

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:1987. It was the first company in the business to receive this certification. The company has branches in

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. Production plants are located in Bologna, including the headquarters in Anzola dell'Emilia, in Forlì, in

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. In the 1990s, the Swiss Ott-Freezer, the Promag of Milan, the Spanish Sencotel and the Italian GBG were acquired. In 2003 the Carpigiani Gelato University was founded, a professional training school on the production of artisan gelato. By 2021 the school, which has established itself as the largest and most prestigious gelato school in the world, has 20 campuses around the globe in addition to the headquarters in Anzola, where lessons are held in Italian, English and French. On 27 September 2012, the Carpigiani Gelato Museum was inaugurated, the first and only museum in the world entirely dedicated to gelato.

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