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For over a century Pastificio Guido Ferrara has perfected the art of Italian Pasta making. In a tradition thet began in 1883, the Lombardy family, Guido Ferrara's ancestors, practiced the socalled "white art" in a mill annexed to a remote pasta plant in Naples, Italy.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Guido Ferrara's grandfather, Pellegrino Lombardi, was a progressive innovator, inventing new production techniques and introducing sophisticated changes in the pasta industry. These innovation represented
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november 1946
"Rotative Equipment for predrier for short pasta cuts"


november 1946
"Horizzontal drier for short pasta cuts"
march 1948
"Vertical drier for long pasta cuts"
considerable advances from the traditional artisan system for the production of dry pasta. Pursuing admirably his grandfather objectives, in 1957, Guido Ferrara re-named the plant to "Pastificio Guido Ferrara" building a new pasta plant in San Paolo Belsito (Naples). Further technological innovations in the production of pasta were implemented, which are still recognized and applied by contemporany manifacturers of dry pasta today. Thus from father to son the art of producing pasta has been shared even by Luca Ferrara who, through enthusiasm and dedication, brought a further qualitative result to the pasta plant, projecting it towards a stable international market.