Fonderia Nebiolo

Italian type foundry, est. in Turin in 1878 when Giovanni Nebiolo acquired Giacomo Narizzano’s foundry (founded 1852). In 1889 the Levi brothers joined the company, which is renamed to Nebiolo & Comp. Started the construction of printing machines in 1890. Became a public limited company in 1899 and acquired several other foundries over the years. In 1908 Nebiolo and their competitor Urania in Milan formed a joint venture named Società Augusta. In 1918, Augusta was dissolved; Nebiolo and Urania merged under the name Fonderia di caratteri e Fabbrica di macchine Ditta Nebiolo & Comp. Taken over by Fiat in 1976 and went bankrupt in 1978. In 1990 the type casting business went to Fruttiger AG in Münchenstein, Switzerland, and later to Rainer Gerstenberg’s foundry in Darmstadt, Germany. [Klingspor-Museum, Kupferschmid]