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ANNIVERSARY

GTI: Bottero celebrated an
important milestone this year.
Can you tell us something of
the history of the company?
DC: Yes, Bottero has been
DAVIDE CIGNA, celebrating 60 years in the
glass business. We are very
proud to say that we have
SALES MANAGER been involved in every as-
pect of the industry – flat
glass machinery, hollow
glass machinery and pro-
OF BOTTERO, TALKS duction equipment – right
from Day One. We are one
of the few companies (per-
TO GTI ABOUT PAST, haps the only one) who
can claim a 360º experi-
ence of glass machinery
PRESENT AND from the very beginning.
That intuitive decision to
get involved across the
board was an early winning
FUTURE IN THE GLASS move by our owners. Bot-
tero is a private company
owned by a group of local
INDUSTRY families in the Cuneo area.
The original founder, Pas-
quale Bottero, died very

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