We build our future with quality
O ur history began in 1986, at a small blacksmith’s workshop, in the heart of Tuscany.
Today, over 30 years later, we have become an industrial company capable of manufacturing over 1000 different products, which are exported worldwide, wherever people eat pizza. We are a world leader in the production of pizza peels and pizzeria utensils, a point of reference for professionals and amateurs alike, in Italy and abroad.
OUR MISSION
We are an Italian company based in Montale, in the province of Pistoia, with two foreign subsidiaries: one in the United States, in Chicago, and one in Brazil, in Curitiba.
Our mission is to co-operate with professional and amateur pizza makers, understanding their needs and issues and developing solutions aimed at improving and simplifying their daily tasks.
As CEO Marco D’Annibale puts it: “While designing our products, listening to pizza makers is essential. Gi.Metal products are the outcome of listening to pizza makers and analysing their requirements. When we know what they need, we can increasingly fine-tune our professional instruments for pizzerias”.
OUR VISION
We produce over 1000 products for pizzerias and the catering sector. Most of the products are 100% Made in Italy, which means quality, function and beauty. The production techniques and the materials used are constantly tested and updated to achieve the maximum function, convenience, strength and safety, as proven by the ISO 9001:2015 quality certification obtained via TÜV Italia.
OUR VALUES
We are inspired by three values every day: quality, passion and innovation. The constant search for innovative materials, the attention to and investment in resources, to achieve ever more refined and groomed processes allow us to gradually and continuously improve the products, reaching that excellence that the company is proud of.
FOCUS ON PEOPLE
Investments do not only stop at latest generation machinery and updated technologies. We focus on people in the development project. We are a workgroup that prioritises harmony, that pursues respect in interpersonal relationships, that believes in training as a drive for encouragement and gratification.
4.0 COMPANY
In-house design and production managed and handled by highly qualified staff. The versatile organisation allows us to personally follow every step of the work, guaranteeing maximum quality and efficiency. Gi.Metal always uses high-tech and latest generation machinery, that guarantees production efficiency and streamlines times and raw materials used, in the perspective of a 4.0 company.
A complete logistic digitalization of the 8000 sqm plant allows us to fulfil orders very quickly for all of the catalogue items.
A B2B PORTAL DESIGNED FOR WHOLESALERS
The B2B portal is the online store designed specifically for wholesalers. It offers multiple potentialities to effectively manage the business and always be informed about the latest product news.
HIGHEST PRIORITY: web orders managed with priority compared to other orders.
QUICK REORDER: personalized suggestion of the ordered items history, to speed up the selection.
DOCUMENT STORAGE: possibility to recover orders and administrative and commercial documents at any time and just a click away.
REDUCED COSTS: reduced shipping costs compared to standard conditions.
CUSTOMER SERVICE: order support in real time via online chat with our customer service.
OUR COMMITMENT TO THE ENVIRONMENT
In the last few years, Gi.Metal has taken its first steps on the path towards environmental sustainability so as to be responsible for the needs of our planet.
”The awareness of the company’s social responsibility towards the territory and, more in general, for the impact that our activities have on the Planet has grown in recent years. We are only at the beginning, but our resolve is to develop a plan to help to positively rebalance the unbalances of our “stay on the planet”.
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We take part in over 20 international trade fairs throughout the world every year, important occasions to strengthen already consolidated ties and to create new ones.
Gi.Metal also sponsors several events, such as national and international tournaments, pizza festivals, online and offline contests. We are also partner of organisations, associations and training schools, sustaining whoever genuinely undertakes to promote pizza quality throughout the world.
The palapizza
The Gi.Metal factory houses the Palapizza: a facility designed to welcome customers coming from the whole world, to train future pizza makers, to illustrate and test products. The best technicians take turns in managing this special pizzeria, which through the years has become a training centre for pizza making apprentices, and a facility for demonstrations and updates intended for professional pizza makers. This is all done in collaboration with the best training schools, that avail of the Palapizza. “Relationships have always been the core of our business. They are a valuable occasion for listening to one another, an essential precondition so that our daily actions are always well focused. The PalaPizza is the principal place where we are proud to create opportunities to meet all of those who feel that pizza has a privileged spot in their lives”
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A plant of over 8000 m2 that supplies over 2000 dealers across the world.
We work side-by-side with professional pizza makers, but also with all those who love pizza and have a passion for it, to understand their needs, to find solutions, implement them and distribute them worldwide.
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