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1946
The first electric oven for pastry.
Everything starts when Placido Moretti, a true pioneer, creates and patents his first electric oven for pastry in a small artisan laboratory in Pesaro, while all around him bakers were using wood burning ovens almost exclusively. The success was immediate and led to the foundation of Brevetti Moretti.
Anni ‘60 – ‘80
Moretti Forni snc
In 1966, Moretti Forni snc. was founded. After new company foundation, success followed thanks to its first modular gas ovens, designed by the company, then ovens for ceramic were produced and this allows the company to test high temperatures in depths.
At the end of the 80’s, Moretti Forni got the European leadership for the production of professional pizza and pastry ovens.
1990
Moretti Forni S.p.A
With the third generation leading the company, Moretti Forni becomes a public limited company.
The first partnerships with the most important distributors in the field start.
1995
The advent of electronics
The first electronic ovens appear on the market, a real turning point in temperature regulation technology. There is an exponential growth in machine precision, increasing their performances and becoming a real support for professional bakers.
2000
Integrated Solutions Provider
Moretti Forni opens to globalization of markets by studying a specific range of new products, also “entry-level” ones, in order to attract the increasing foreign demand. The company integrates the range of products with complementary equipment and becomes one of the first to offer complete solutions for pizzerias: the first baking “systems” were born.
2003
The first conveyor oven
serieT range represents a generational leap in the history of conveyor ovens. International patents and two primary goals achieved: unparalleled baking quality and the lowest temperature of the external surfaces for its category.
2005
The new headquarters
Our sixtieth anniversary is celebrated in the modern headquarters in Mondolfo, a building of more than 10 thousand square meters, designed for a more rational, efficient and safe production, always caring for environmental protection.
2011
The first baking Academy.
Moretti LAB – Learn And Bake, the first Academy in the world focused on baking, is founded to increasingly spread awareness about the importance of heat as an ingredient.
Students from all over the world come to Mondolfo to attend pizza, bread, and pastry workshops led by the most important trainers in the field.
2013
SerieS – The creation of the most advanced oven in the world
After two intensive years of studies, Moretti Forni launched on the market serieS, an innovative high-tech oven — its functionality and design have a sole aim: the reduction of energy consumption by 30%.
2017
Neapolis® – The wood burning oven becomes electric
From the continuous evolution that characterizes Moretti Forni, comes Neapolis, the first and unique electric oven able to reach 510°C in just 1 hour and 45 minutes. Patented design, optimized heating elements, and special materials make Neapolis an oven with no equals, capable of joining in a single solution quality, style, healthiness, and sustainability: Moretti Forni cultural and technological heritage.
2018
Proven® – professional baking at home
The perfect baking is now available at home. Moretti Forni created and patented Proven, the first and unique professional oven in the world that can be used at home as well, compact and with low consumption. Its innovative and patented design is acknowledged and awarded with Smart Label at Host2019 and allows Proven to participate at the final phases of XXVI Compasso d’Oro and Exhibition at ADI Design Museum in Milan, in 2020.
Today
CotturaFutura®
With CotturaFutura®, our permanent research incubator developed by Moretti Forni with the leading professionals in the field, technological research becomes a widespread heritage, reaching a larger audience that shares its founding values.
If you bake using a Moretti Forni oven, you hold a piece of future in your hands.