Profile
Advanced technology to serve the needs of businesses
Breton - Pioneer in the development of advanced technologies and materials - is an international leader in the design and production of advanced industrial machines and plants for processing natural stone, ceramic, metals and in the development of engineered stone production plants and in additive manufacturing.
Philosophy constantly focused on research
The company of today is a multi-sector industrial group specialised in designing and building machines and plants for:
- Processing natural stone and ceramic materials
- Fabricating and processing engineered stone
- Machining metals, carbon fibre and plastics
- Thermosetting polymer based large scale additive manufacturing
Breton is a global operator present in more than 100 countries worldwide and with a workforce of approximately 1000. Over its years of operation, Breton has registered more than 1700 patents.
Marcello Toncelli
A native of Piombino (Leghorn), Breton's founder Marcello Toncelli relocated to Veneto after WWII. He was a man of vision, genius, and intuition.
He was also a hard worker and extremely resolute in pursuing his revolutionary ideas in the industry. He innovated processes and products, contributing to the introduction of industrial machining processes in the natural and engineered stone sector.
Breton's dynamism – source of inspiration for a constantly evolving group
Breton in numbers
Breton is a family owned Italian company with headquarters in Castello di Godego (Treviso), a further two production plants in Campiglia dei Berici and Vedelago, and six foreign branches.
Breton has become a global organisation, a technological leader in all its areas of expertise, including machine tools for metals, carbon fibre and plastics, and additive manufacturing plants.
Breton is also the world's largest company operating in the production of machines and plants for processing natural stone, and for fabricating and processing engineered stone.
Individuality as a source of value
Vision
Breton believes in individuality as a means to combat uniformity.
In a climate of openness and sharing, the individual’s uniqueness and the power of each idea are the ingredients needed to achieve important, valuable goals together.
Breton builds its uniqueness on the individuality of many.
Innovation as a mission
Mission
Breton aspires to a role of technological partnership with its customers. Our organisation offers reliable, high performance solutions, with technological contents that are always innovative and unique, backed up by responsive and efficient services, i.e. the necessary conditions to enable process innovation and improvements in productivity. Breton aims to inspire excellence, allowing its customers to operate as leaders in their markets rather than mere followers. That's why Breton's teams are at work every day to support customers’ projects and ideas with skills and models refined by 60 years of experience.
Breton insists on establishing collaborative relationships with its customers to create a climate of openness and participation to better assist them in outlining the most appropriate and cost-effective investments, providing specialist support to allow correct analysis of the related technical and economic-financial aspects.
Breton today
Breton S.p.A., with headquarters in Italy in Treviso (Castello di Godego), and a further two production plants (Campiglia dei Berici and Vedelago), six foreign branches and nearly a thousand employees, has risen to a position of dominance on the world market thanks to its consistently research-oriented philosophy.