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Published: July 29th 2011
Bruna's family owns a Hinge Factory and both her and Mario work there. I was taken on a tour by Bruna's father who is 87 and founded the factory in the 60s. He was a nice man and talked a lot. He could only speak italian so that was a bit of a problem. Luckily, Alberto was there to translate.
They produce 600 different shapes and sizes of hinges and make 50,000 a day.
The metal starts in coils in a storage area and is taken to a machine to cut the right size and drill holes.
Then the machine curls the metal to make the place for the pin to be inserted.
The pins are made from metal rods and are cut by people. Then the hinges are assembled and boxed and shipped out.
Not too complicated!!
The factory employs 18 people and is located in Gravellone Toce. I thought you might like to look around!
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