Our Story

Experience since 1907

The Company Bongioanni was founded in the far 1907, thanks to the union between two Companies: Officine Manfredi located in Mondovì and Fonderie Bongioanni located in Fossano; their activities, joined under the name of Fonderie and Officine Meccaniche Manfredi Bongioanni, covered the production and the marketing of foundry items, stove-fittings, machines for the wood industry and machines for the heavy clay industry.

Later on the family Bongioanni remained the only owner of the company that in 1991 associated in a holding and acquired companies complementary to the activities carried out, which included the production of heating boilers, the production of machines and complete lines for the primary processing of the wood and the production of machines and complete plants for the manufacture of clay bricks and roofing tiles. This branch of the Company in 2000, with the splitting of the group, passed under the control of the Company Filea S.p.A. that thanks to a policy of innovation and growth has brought the company, manufacturer of machines and equipment for the production of clay bricks and roofing tiles with a wet forming process, to the highest level of worldwide introduction ever reached by a company of the sector.

Our important dates:

  • Date 1914 the first oversea work order of Bongioanni (FOMB in those times) when 26 freight cars, full of machines for the production of clay bricks, left from the railway station of Fossano to the seaport of Genoa, having as final destination Constantinople, Istanbul.
  • In 1925 is manufactured the first revolving press for the production of pressed tiles. This press throughout the years will become the model 6PV that will revolutionize the plant engineering allowing to automate the load of the rough materials and the unload of the manufactured articles.
  • These technological innovations are perfectly represented by the press 13PV, designed at the beginning of the 80’s, that in its several versions counts more than 300 models and brings Bongioanni to hold market shares close to the monopoly.
  • It dates back to 1927 the design of the vacuum extrusion group with the de-airing mixer independent from the extruder; this solution allows a more correct feeding of the extrusion auger, optimizing consumptions and homogeneity of mixing. Such an innovation in the following years will be passed off as a newness from more than one competitor.
  • In 1932 Bongioanni foundries are commissioned the reconstruction of the fence of the Royal Palace in Turin.