Biaggini Frigoriferi
I professionisti del freddo per un freddo professionale

E. Biaggini SA

Long time ago, in 1928, Mr. Eugenio Biaggini set up a refrigeration service and installation company at Muralto, near the City of Locarno (you can see a copy of the document extracted from the register of commerce of 1950).

The grandfather of today's proprietors ran his own restaurant, but once, when he had to have a refrigerator installed, he became curious of the refrigeration process, which later became his passion. This passion had been transferred to his son Eugenio. After apprenticeship training, the latter became a mechanical fitter and turner in Bellinzona. In the fifties, he started working for his father, installing air conditioning, ventilation, refrigeration systems not only in Ticino, but also all over Switzerland. Meanwhile, he gained the trust of such clients as Cattaneo from Dieticon, Gurtner from Flims and Micarna from Courtepin, etc.

In 1962, with his wife Giovanna, he created a new seat at Giubiasco that remained active even in the 1990s. In the years that followed, for some time he continued working with the machinery for charcuterie (prepared meat products), but then he understood that the costs and personnel management did not allow him to develop and install refrigeration plants at a great distance. Moreover, the canton of Ticino began its race towards modernization and investiments in various sectors linked to refrigeration, such as the Migros distribution center at Sant'Antonino, planned and put in use by Eugenio Biaggini. Thus, the construction of the first supermarkets gave a boost to the growth of the company for many years to follow.

It was on February 22, 1972 when Eugenio and Giovanna set up Biaggini SA, becoming its shareholders. Through the years, Mr. Eugenio Biaggini worked as a co-founder for Kältering AG, the Swiss association of private business that operates in the refrigeration sector on the entire territory of Switzerland. Nowadays, Kältering is the largest Swiss enterprise in the sphere of refrigeration, being a partner of the most important food and distributor groups.

His vision and total devotedness to "his" profession helped him to create an exemplar company in Ticino that competes on the same level with the leading refrigeration companies worldwide. Developing business contacts brought us to the conclusion of exclusive dealeship agreements for compressors from DORIN (Compiobbi, Florence) and collaboration with such firms as Parker, Solvay, Costan, etc.

In the 1980s and 90s, his three sons joined him in the business: Eugenio takes care of sales and personnel management; Michele, a mechanical engineer with a MSc degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, is responsible for the department of technology and development; Giovanni, a certified refrigeration mechanic, is in charge of field service.

Meanwhile, the business continued to develop and in 1990 it moved to a new and current seat at Cadenazzo that occupies a territory of 17000 square metres, including 7500 m2 of covered surface.

Mr. Eugenio deceased in November 2010, having left an immense emptiness in the society, in the family and the hearts of all people who knew him. Nowadays, the enterprise goes on with its activity in cooling industry started as long ago as 1928, adopting new technologies with carbon dioxide (CO2), constructing refrigeration plants ever more sophisticated and acheiving great results.

Thanks to our strong collaborators, we are looking forward to an extraordinary moment in the company history: its centennial celebration.

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