Our company was founded with some partners in 1949 in Invorio by our “grandfather” Piola Domenico. The name PIOLA starts appearing with him on the Italian market, dedicating itself at the beginning to the production of household articles like roses for stove pipes, small moulds for biscuits and warming bottles, which were used in those periods…

The recession of the immediate post-war period which didn’t favour the development of a newborn company gave character, strength and energy to overcome those critical moments.

Meanwhile the co-partners left the business totality to Piola Domenico.
An illness in 1958 left the company prematurely without the founder and Giovanni Piola eighteen years old then, took from that moment wilful over the reins of the company, helped actively during the first years by the important figure of Mother “Gina”, thus bringing the company at important levels.

The manufacturing of the historical articles was changed in order to meet new commercial opportunities in the water-sanitary sector and the artisan production was industrialized. Copper balls for floaters, roses of brass and stainless steel sheet for siphons and taps, shower heads, etc., etc. were manufactured during 1952-53 and are still the main manufacturing activity. The market was widened from the national territory and brought our Made in Italy all over the world.

That is the reason why we can state to have become without any false modesty since more than 50 activity years in the sector and three generations engaged to improve the quality of the product and the customer’s service the experts in this field.

The production, still based on the “artisan” mentality of the founder but engineered with modern technologies, made our dream come true: we have reached the production “state of art” and we are proud to be in the sectional top list of “Made in Italy”, or better of the “Product in Italy”.

In 1996 Giovanni’s son enters the company and at the beginning of 2006 a new business re-organization has given further motivation and vigour to the company thus preparing to win the new requirements of a market always looking for new and creative technologies in order to keep the name of the Italian product at competitive level and at a higher quality compared to the new emerging markets.

Alberto Bacchetta
Edoardo Piola