Our history

The roots

Fortunato Fiorentino learned metal in the wire-drawing mills. That is where he understood how it behaves under your hands, and how a company really works: two things no school teaches you.

It could have been enough. Instead, in the Seventies, when his shift ended he went home and started another one: at night, in a garage, he had begun polishing parts for other companies. No sign above the door, no plant. A bench, two hands, and parts going back nicer than they arrived.

There was no business plan behind it. There was a man who knew how to do one thing well and was not willing to do it halfway. Out of that garage came his first business of his own — a very small one, doing only that. Everything else was born out of those nights.

From finishing to the whole part

From die-casting and polishing, Effebiesse extends the chain in both directions: mold making upstream, machining, surface finishing and electroplating downstream. Customers no longer have to line up four suppliers — everything is in one place.

Within a few years the single-lever handles, knobs and bathroom accessories made in Villa Carcina reach the taps of the most important brands in the world.

Everything under one roof

A report in the magazine Lavaggio Industriale photographs the company at full maturity: 150 people at the head office, five hundred molds built in-house and kept in the warehouse, robotic cells for grinding and polishing, two chrome plating lines.

Every day 50,000 parts leave the plant. Customers include Ideal Standard, Hansa, Grohe, Paini and Zucchetti.

Forty-four years on

More than 300 companies worldwide work with Effebiesse. The production cycle is still complete: design, mold making, die-casting, machining, polishing, electroplating, inspection and shipping.

And the founding idea is still the one from 1982: do a difficult thing well.

The discipline the ring teaches

Fortunato Fiorentino was a sportsman before he was a manufacturer. He had boxed, and had been champion of Lazio with the Fiamme Oro. What boxing left him, above all, was a conviction: that what really counts, more than the result, is the discipline sport teaches.

Hence the decision to support Boxe Lumezzane. And alongside the ring, over the years Effebiesse has never turned its back on local sport, contributing to volleyball and cycling: a commitment that continued after his passing.