More than 70 years ago, the mixer of the family’s bakery stopped working and the Sottoriva brothers, Giuseppe and Claudio, who already dabbled in building tools such as electric stoves, washing machines and coffee makers, cleverly solved the problem by building a new one. The result was more than satisfactory so much so that at the end of 1944, the Sottoriva brothers decided to specialize in the production of bakery machines, using the family's bakery as a laboratory for testing … It was the beginning of a great adventure!