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The TRE SPADE brand has been present on the market since 1894. Owned by the Fratelli Bertoldo company of Forno Canavese (Turin province), it is an important name in the production of hot-forged tools for ironmongery. As the fashion for coffee took hold in the early twentieth century, the company ranked as the major Italian producer of coffee grinders, a leadership it would maintain for over seventy years! It was the time when the first cars were being manufactured and TRE SPADE too, in 1906, took on the challenge in this pioneering production. Adapting to the demands of the market they gradually started to produce various accessories for agricultural processes and gardening, as well as items in hot-forged steel and the first manual meat mincers. In 1938, after a reorganization of the company ownership, which still remained within the same family, the firm changed into a joint-stock company (S.p.A.) and F.A.C.E.M. “Fabbricazione di Articoli Casalinghi e Metallurgici” (“Manufacture of household and metal-working items”) was born: its name expresses its double role of supplying both households and the motor industry, and this still continues today. The two divisions (food tech and hot-forging) work in parallel, with some interchanging and overlapping, and both of them keep the TRE SPADE brand name.
TRE SPADE has always paid great attention to the needs of the market and to consumer requests. This is why production has evolved over the years, becoming broader and more diversified. The vintage products like the coffee grinders (and also the pepper mills) still include the exclusive conical TRE SPADE mills in special tempered steel, nominated by several studies promoted by consumer associations, for having the best performances overall. A very successful product, both in Italy and throughout the world, is the tomato squeezer, electric or manual. Later on, TRE SPADE specialized in items for processing and preserving meat: the first manual meat mincers were closely followed by electric mincers, meat mixers, sausage fillers and bone saws, making the TRE SPADE brand a world leader in the sector. In recent years the most significant development has been the vacuum packing machine, a worthy partner for the other machines for food preserving, as it relies particularly on extremely natural ways of processing that preserve the organoleptic qualities of the foods intact.
TRE SPADE’s distribution is laid out along two lines. On the one hand it is dedicated to small firms and family businesses – those who want to offer their customers genuine, good-quality, safe products. These range from agri-tourism businesses to delicatessens, from supermarkets to hotels, pork butchers and farms. On the other hand, it is dedicated, with skill and precision, to the creation of machines for food professionals. Right from its earliest beginnings the company has shown a considerable talent for export and the TRE SPADE brand name is now present in all the five continents. Just as in Italy, where distribution coverage is widespread, TRE SPADE is present with importers and exclusive dealers in all European countries, in Canada and the United States, in Latin America, in the countries of North Africa, in the Republic of South Africa, in Saudi Arabia, Japan, South-east Asia and Australia.