Breton (company)

Breton S.p.A. is an Italian privately held company established in 1963 that produces machines and plants for engineered stone and metalworking.
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. Marcello Toncelli invented the Bretonstone technology, also known as vibrocompression under vacuum, a patented technology which is used today by most engineered stone manufacturers.
Around the mid 1990s the company decided to enter also into the machine tool market, manufacturing machining centres for the mechanical industry.
In 2003 Marcello Toncelli, Breton's founder, died, and the control of the company passed to his sons Luca and Dario Toncelli, who since then have been running the company together with the founder's long-time partner, Roberto Chiavacci, Vice President of the Board of Directors.
In 2011 the company acquired Bideseimpianti 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 initiative of the European Commission which focuses on the potential applications of graphene.
Products.
Breton manufactures machines and technology for following fields:
Awards.
Breton's solution to connect through the cloud to manage tele-service for 4,000 machines for hundreds of customers worldwide has been awarded in 2012 by Microsoft with the Windows Embedded Partner Excellence Award for manufacturing.