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ANNIVERSARY

Adelio

Lattuada

CONTINUOUS GROWTH

AND DEVELOPMENT

FROM ONE GENERATION

TO THE NEXT

G lass-Technology In- the designs and layout of the evening, working side-
by-side with him in this
this machines they put
(GTI):
ternational
their orders in!
‘adventure’. The first years,
This year is impor-
tant for Adelio Lattuada as From then on we started being a smaller company,
you are celebrating 40 years on production of our first we had the chance to be re-
of activity. How did this im- machines – the Delta au- ally satisfied with our first
portant ‘adventure’ start? tomatic corner processing machinery sales, the first
machine – followed by the times at trade shows, etc.
Adelio Lattuada: I started straight line edger, the bev-
as a technician for anoth- eller, the double-edgers, as Michela Lattuada: At the
er company of this sec- well as washing machines beginning, my job was
tor, and travelling to and and, last but not least, drill- mainly connected to com-
speaking to clients I de- ing machines. munication while now, I
cided to start up my own am also in charge of tech-
company, especially be- Silvana Preatoni: I am head nical documentation of our
cause a number of clients of the administration and machines, along with per-
were actually looking for purchasing departments. At sonnel management.
a particular machine that the beginning, it was with The company is almost
did not exist on the mar- great pride that I watched a ‘second home’ for me,
ket at that time. When I my husband working on also because Adelio Lat-
showed a couple of clients the designs of machinery in tuada was set up before I

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