Our story
The story of Guardini stems from a strong passion for cooking and an endless desire to create a world tailored to the consumer, blending tradition and innovation.
1950s
The story begins in the immediate post-war period, when Luigi Guardini, unsatisfied with the everyday routine offered by factory work, had the insight, enthusiasm and determination to found 'F.lli Guardini', an artisan workshop specialising in household goods. The company is a real family business: in addition to the founder and his brothers Silvio e Giacomo, his nephew Giovanni, at the time a child with a passion for construction and technical drawing, is also involved in the project.
1960s
The untimely death of Luigi Guardini did not stop the company's production, which grew through major structural expansionand an increasingly comprehensive product range.
1970s
Keeping pace with an unexpected, yet very welcome growth requires a transition from artisanal company to an organised factory, a transformation that takes place in the new plant at Borgaro Torinese.
1980s
With the appearance of the first household appliances in Italian homes, Guardini chooses to focus on the domestic market and selects the baking tin as its flagship product, manufactured with advanced industrial automation technology and the use of new non-stick coating materials.
1990s
Structural and technological investments in the new factory in Volpiano and the brand's entry into the large-scale retail trade, lead to the “Factory with a view to the future”, a future that began when the next generation, Elena and Marco, joined the company.
2000s
The company enters the new millennium with a new generation at the helm, more than 90 employees and around 17.000m2, of production space, in which the manufacturing facilities sit alongside a modern building designed on a human scale to accommodate the administrative offices and exhibition spaces.
Today
Guardini, which has now become one of Europe's leading companies in the production of baking moulds, is now an exporter of the best of Made in Italy to over 60 countries around the world, promoting sustainability as one of its distinctive features, and striving each day for a greater awareness of its environmental and social responsibility.