Dondi Spa

Brief Description:     With a rich and extensive history spanning 175 years, Dondi was founded in Mirandola, Italy, in 1850. The company has since become a global reference point for farming enterprises, evolving from its initial production of wooden ploughs to offering a considerably extended range of products for both farming and road maintenance.     The company's journey began with the production of iron ploughs at the end of World War I, and by the end of World War II, it had started up with 12 employees. The economic boom and the mechanization of farming in the 1950s gave the company a great boost, growing its workforce to about 30 employees. Halfway through the 1950s, production diversified to include heavy towed ploughs with single, double, and triple ploughshares on wheels, designed for deep ploughing.     Further important stages in Dondi’s history include the definition of a complete range of tillers, a product line that opened the way for the production of several hundred machines in the 1960s and 1970s, eventually reaching a few thousand in the 1980s. Around 1965, the company, by then employing 58 workers, decided to test the foreign market, with initial ventures into Spain, Yugoslavia, and Greece. At the same time, the technical staff, directed by Giuliano Dondi, designed and perfected a new farming appliance that would become a flagship product: the Rotary Ditcher. Over the next 20 years, this machine monopolized both national and foreign markets, and Dondi exported it under the trademark “Dondiditcher” to over 50 countries on every continent.     On December 5th, 1978, the company was transformed into a company limited by shares. Between the end of the 1970s and the early 1980s, the company manufactured thousands of machines, equally distributed between ploughs, tillers, and ditchers. Under the commercial direction of Giorgio Dondi, the company opened new markets, including the United States, and considerably increased its export volume. As high-tech multiple ploughshare tools from other European countries entered the national market, the traditional plough witnessed a permanent decline as a product, while the Ditcher remained Dondi's leading product on foreign markets.     In 1991, the company transferred from Mirandola to Bastia Umbra and flanked the production of Ditchers with a range of products for open-field ploughing, aiming at the Italian and European markets with resistant, reliable, and efficient equipment. From that date on, Dondi also grew in the sector of roadside working machinery, designing articulated arms combined with their ditchers and other actuated tools for the maintenance of mounds and drains, as well as for cutting grass along roads. In the first decade of the 2000s, Dondi also designed the GRM60-Spider, an innovative and technological guardrail mower for the maintenance of road greenery. Initially developed for the US market, it was also successful in Europe, further enhancing Dondi’s patent portfolio. Most recently, in 2019, the company introduced a new line of equipment for tilling vineyards and orchards, with a range capable of efficiently mechanizing work both between rows and under foliage.

Year Founded: 1850

Main Products: Ditcher, Cultivator

Brand: Dondi

Country of Origin: Italy

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Website: www.dondinet.it

Address: Viale Europa, 94/102, 06083 Ospedalicchio PG, Italy

Contact No.: +390758010198

Email: info@dondinet.it