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SOLUTIONS Laura Gasparini, export manager of Palazzani Industrie SpA, talked to Barbara Rossi about the two company divisions, an upcoming anniversary and the outstanding rate of growth experienced by the Palift aerial platforms worldwide.
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alazzani is going to celebrate its eightieth birthday this year, having being founded in 1935 as a small workshop manufacturing agricultural equipment. In the 1950s it started making the first earthmoving machines and in the 1980s acquired joint-stock status, as well as commencing production of aerial platforms alongside its earth-moving range. Since then the company has had two manufacturing divisions: Paload (earth-moving range) and Palift (aerial platform range). These two divisions operate in very different sectors, with different markets, but are very much part of the same company. Today, the second and third generations of the founding family are actively involved in its management (the company is led