Fiorentini

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The Fiorentini company, or Fiorentini & C. S.p.A., was founded by the Italian engineer Filippo Fiorentini (Imola, 1876 – Rome, 18 November 1944), a company within an engineering office initially, in 1901, then a factory of excavators in 1919 in Rome, Italy. Filippo Fiorentini was the son of Giuseppe Fiorentini, a Belluno-born former official in the Ministry of the Interior in Rome, and his wife Maria Galotti, daughter of wealthy industrialists from Imola. Filippo imported and distributed construction equipment. During the time of Fascism, restrictions banned import and he started his manufacturing plant in Via Tiburtina near Stazione Tiburtina (San Lorenzo, in Roma) for the construction of excavators such as scrapers/draglines and cranes under the license of an American company named Bucyrus. The first excavators (models FB35 and FB38) were entirely built on site from 1930 to 1940. Around the 1930s, Fiorentini also opened a factory in Fabriano, of Ancona province in the Italian region of the Marche. New models were scheduled to be produced but were delayed by World War II. During the war, in 1943, 117 workers died in the factory attacked by bombs dropped by the American military. Filippo Fiorentini and his wife died in November 1944 during an other air attack, completely destroying the factory, which drove their son Giuseppe II to rebuild the company afterwards. The Fiorentini & C. S.p.A. relocated further along the Tiburtina road, to a bigger plant, more modern and very effective. After World War II, the company produced FB50, 60, 100 and the massive FB200 that could hold 1000 tons. In 1951, the success of his business led Giuseppe Fiorentini at the top rank of Rome tax payers. In the 1960s, there were some design changes. The company also produced bulldozers and hydraulic excavators. By studying Russian, Giuseppe Fiorentini travelled to...