Our story - Niccolai Trafile

1843

Prendono vita le prime trafile pe pasta della Ditta garibaldo Ricciarelli.

1949

Sestilio niccolai apre la sua prima produzione a San Sepolcro di trafile per pasta.

1967

Un passo importante, Niccolai trafile acquisisce il reparto trafile del marchio Ricciarelli migliorando e implementando la produzione.

1992

realizzazione delle macchine tranciatrici e stampi per la produzione dei formati tranciati “pasta Bologna”

1923-1935

Sestilio Niccolai lavora presso la Ricciarelli acquistando metodo e competenza

1953

Dalle trafile al rame si passa alle trafile in bronzo lavorate con piccoli trapani, la produzione Niccolai inizia a farsi conoscere.

1990

creazione del primo gruppo di taglio automatico

2000

realtà produttiva che unisce alla tradizione la continua innovazione di processo e di
prodotto come richiesto dal mercato globale.

TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION

About us.

Niccolai Sestilio (born in Pistoia on 1/03/1902) was the founder of Niccolai Trafile, leading company in the construction of dies and machinery for the production of Pasta and Snacks.
He began to work as a young machinist in the company Garibaldo Ricciarelli manufacturer of dies since 1843. For several years Sestilio worked at Ricciarelli’s (1923-1935), period in which the dies were of copper and punched by hand to create the different shapes of pasta.
In 1935 he started business on his own with two coworkers and a few years later he moved with his family in Sansepolcro, after being offered a good job as head of dies department in Buitoni’s pasta factory.

In the same department he was later joined by the young son Mario.
They worked at Buitoni’s until 1946 when they resigned maintaining an excellent relationship with the same.
In 1949 Sestilio with his son Mario opened a small business for the repair and manufacture of dies in Via San Gregorio in Sansepolcro where they were joined also by Marcello, second son. In 1953 the family returned to Pistoia and carried on business in a small warehouse located in Via Giordano Bruno.

MARIO NICCOLAI – SAN SEPOLCRO – 1950

MARCELLO NICCOLAI – PISTOIA – 1958

The dies.

The dies evolved from copper to bronze alloy and were executed with small presses and drills. It was also realized a forge for the fusion of the die blocks.
They began to be known by pasta manufactures in Tuscany and in Umbria moving with the bikes and then, with the arrival of the first cars, also in the other regions of Italy. The work consisted in the construction of new dies and in the repairing of competitor dies.
Within a short time the little company began to grow taking on 10 workers and expanding its knowledge in small and large pasta factories. In 1967 the Niccolai family acquired the entire dies department and the brand of Garibaldo Ricciarelli company; the staff of Ricciarelli was hired by Niccolai Trafile and so the company moved the business to a larger building in Viale Adua, here also arrived the first automatic machine tools for the execution of the inserts.

In the ‘60s the first die washing machines were designed and built, while in 1990 the first automatic cutting group “Cartrapen” was born and in 1992 the stamping machines and stamping dies for the production of Pasta Bologna shapes.

In 1987 the company moved into a new plant in the industrial area of S.Agostino where they continue to produce both for national and international market with a staff of 52 employees.

Tradition and innovation.

The story sarted by the artisan Sestilio has gone through all the dynamics and production updates for dies, penne cutting groups, die washing machines, stamping machines and stamping dies, besides all the necessary accessories for every Pasta or Snack production plant.
In the third millennium Niccolai Trafile is a company that combines tradition with a continuous innovation in process and product , as required by the global market.