Breton S.p.A. is an Italian, privately held company established in 1963 that produces

machines A machine is a physical system using power to apply forces and control movement to perform an action. The term is commonly applied to artificial devices, such as those employing engines or motors, but also to natural biological macromolecul ...

and plants for engineered stone and

metalworking Metalworking is the process of shaping and reshaping metals to create useful objects, parts, assemblies, and large scale structures. As a term it covers a wide and diverse range of processes, skills, and tools for producing objects on every scale ...

. 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.

History

Breton was established in 1963 in Castello di Godego, Italy, by Marcello Toncelli, who started developing new technologies and manufacturing industrial plants for producing engineered stone. He invented

Bretonstone Bretonstone, also known as vibro-compression under vacuum, is a patented technology invented in the early-1970s by Breton S.p.A. Nowadays most manufacturers of engineered stone use Bretonstone. History In the early-1970s Marcello Toncell ...

technology, also known as vibrocompression under vacuum, a patented technology which is used today by engineered stone manufacturers.Technology used by most leading engineered stone manufacturers - according to International Surface Fabricators Association
Around the mid 1990s, the company decided to expand into the

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market, manufacturing machining centres for the mechanical industry. In 2003, Marcello Toncelli died, and the control of the company passed to his sons Luca and Dario Toncelli, who have been running the company since together with Roberto Chiavacci, Vice President of the Board of Directors. In 2011, the company acquired Bidese Impianti and signed a partnership with Boart & Wire, a diamond wires manufacturer. In 2014, Breton became an official member of the Graphene Flagship Project, one of the largest research initiatives of the European Commission which focuses on the potential applications of graphene.

Products

Breton manufactures machines and technology for following fields: * engineered stone processing * natural stone processing * ceramic materials processing * high-speed machining for aerospace, formula 1, automotive and die-mould sector

Awards

Breton's solution to connect through the cloud to manage tele-service for 4,000 machines for hundreds of customers worldwide was awarded by

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in 2012 with the Windows Embedded Partner Excellence Award for manufacturing.

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External links

Company's official website

Timeline of Breton's history
Engineering companies of Italy Technology companies of Italy Italian brands Industrial machine manufacturers Manufacturing companies established in 1963 Italian companies established in 1963 Companies based in Veneto