A young, 120 year-old company...
It was in 1880 when Luigi Feraboli driven by a profound passion for the mechanics and a great spirit of enterprise imported the first threshing machine to Italy.
He soon started the manufacture of these machines of which some were destined to sale others to his personal contractor activity.
In the following decades, he actively dedicated himself to the development of even further technologically advanced products being conscious of the progressive change in the agricultural sector. He therefore started up manufacture of stable equipment and irrigation systems.
In 1911 his son, Ing. Antonio: took over the business. The threshing enterprise had grown during the previous years and had expanded its range of activity also to the adjacent provinces of Brescia, Piacenza and Milan with 52 threshing machines at work. Also the number of employees had grown rapidly. Some 150 seasonal workers joined the group of 20 full time employees.
Manufacture had become vaster and manifold and ranged to corn shellers and universal mills for agricultural usage.
In 1923, Feraboli was awarded the gold medal at the Verona agricultural show for a prototype of a drum threshing-ensiler called "the Italian", and contributed to the technological innovation of the agricultural world.In 1924, the production activity moved into the new site in Via Bredina, Cremona, where an area of 20,000m2 was available.
In those years agricultural machines for sale as well as others, specific ones, destined to particular, agricultural work jobs were manufactured.
By the start of the Second World War Dr. Luigi Feraboli who took over business from his father gave further impulse to technologically even further advanced production forage elevators were manufactured in Italy, for the very first time.
Manufacture of even more innovative and rational stable equipment was started immediately after the end of the first World War thanks to the importation of milking plants from Canada. In the same period, manufacture of the "celere", (the rapid ) started, a series of tool-carrying tractors in the power range from 6 to 11 HP.
In the fifties, Feraboli made important novelties that contributed to a further change in the rural Italian scenery. The first corn cob picker combined with a corn stalk shredder and in the livestock section the first automatic manure transportation systems were manufactured.
In the sixties featuring an economical boom the exportation rate reached significant heights. In 1963 the corn cob pickers and manure transportation systems attained big success in France and Germany.
In 1964 manufacture of the first 1 and 2-row crop head forage harvesters , with pick-up and cutter bar was started. The forage harvester line called "Jolly" ensured the brand Feraboli to get known throughout Europe.
The following year, management of the company passed on to both sons Antonio e Mario Feraboli.
The following period featured a continuous growth which was possible by the issue of even more innovative and technologically advanced products- among those forage wagons, ensiling blowers to load vertical storage bins, 2-row-crop head harvesters for harvesting corn cobs and in the end, in 1974, power harrows. At that time the company employed more than 200 workers and a production site more than 35,000 m2 was available.
Exportation activities were concentrated mostly on Europe and Japan.
In 1980 Feraboli celebrated its first centennial anniversary of activity in the field, a precious source of gained experience also in the truest sense-a further incitement to go on in the direction of High Tec at the service of agriculture.
The exportation rate had reache 70% of the production and further investments were necessary to increase and consolidate the commercial net work. Excellent results had been obtained in Asia and the South Pacific area.
The first fixed chamber and variable round balers came out which led to the origin of the Sprinter baler and the exclusive patent of the "Variable Geometry": in 1996.
Bale dimensions and bale core features are determined by the operator and are executed by just one machine.
We have arrived at the present days now. Francesco Feraboli has become Managing Director.
The range of products has become even larger and more diversified and is at your disposal to obtain high and continuous results as ... a red Feraboli machine does not leave you in the lurch!