Ortiflor Group

ABOUT US - ORTIFLOR GROUP

The Ortiflor Group is an Italian company specialising in professional agricultural machinery. Its history has its roots in the entrepreneurial vision of its founder, Antonello Alessi.
In 1997, driven by an innate passion for mechanics and inspired by his ingenious creativity, he designed a new machine for soil preparation. This ingenuity was likely inherited from his grandfather and father, the inventors of the ‘Aratro voltaorecchio’ and the ‘fresara’ (international patent 1960). He designed and built a machine capable of burying stones, clods of earth and surface vegetation, and preparing a clean, levelled seedbed. One of the first modern solutions in the field of agricultural stone-burying machinery.
In 1999, experimentation and product testing enabled the company to gain valuable experience. This allowed it to specialise in professional soil preparation for horticulture, floriculture and nursery farming in the Italian market. Rapidly expanding, Ortiflor Group has also gained recognition in the French and Spanish markets, thanks to the innovation of its stone-burying ridging machines. These machines are capable of creating custom-designed ridges of various widths and operating in a wide range of conditions. Similarly, they perform delicate, high-precision work in a single pass, anticipating the modern concept of multi-functional agricultural machinery.

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Ortiflor Group: Landscaping around the world

In 2002, the Ortiflor Group appointed Cristian Alessi as its sales manager. Thanks to him, the company successfully entered the Danish market. Continuously evolving, it is making its way into the German market. In the years that followed, the Italian company, which specialises in professional agricultural machinery, entered new foreign markets – Brazil, the United Arab Emirates and Honduras – thereby consolidating its international presence in the sector of Italian-made agricultural machinery.
Over the years, the company’s financial stability has enabled it to acquire a factory of several thousand square metres, comprising three departments: metalworking, assembly and a powder coating plant. Thanks to this production facility, the Ortiflor Group can guarantee professional agricultural machinery with fast and reliable delivery. A key role is played by the test and inspection field attached to the site. This is a distinctive feature ensuring the quality of our agricultural equipment.
The Ortiflor Group’s objective is to become and remain the first choice for its existing and future customers. How? By offering stone buriers, stone-burying and mulching machines, and combined machines designed to improve soil quality and optimise agricultural work.

Our mission

The Ortiflor Group’s aim is to become and remain the first choice for its existing and future customers, confident that talent, skill, determination, courage and reliability are the key elements of a successful company in the Italian agricultural machinery sector.

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Attention to detail

The Ortiflor Group is committed to meeting its customers’ needs with attention to detail, offering professional agricultural equipment designed to last.

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Quality of materials

We use the finest certified Made in Italy materials in the manufacture of our machinery, ensuring reliability and high performance in soil cultivation.

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Caring for its customers

Providing immediate technical support to all our customers is an integral part of our corporate identity.

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Continuous innovation

We ensure safety and reliability in the workplace through rigorous checks and ongoing training programmes, whilst maintaining an innovative approach to the design of our agricultural machinery for horticulture, floriculture and nursery farming.

A success story

Late 1800s

In the late 1800s, Giovanni Alessi’s ‘business’ was established in Curtarolo. Giovanni practised one of the most important trades of the time: he was a blacksmith who made ironwork and a farrier who shoed horses. All the paraphernalia from iron to nails was produced by the craftsman.

1925

Around 1925, his son, Alessi Vincenzo Romeo, decided to introduce improvements in farming systems and perfected craft techniques that he would pass on to subsequent generations. Thus began the production of animal-drawn plows and plows.

1930

Invents and manufactures plows for Landini hothead tractors. In the 1930s Landini became the leading agricultural tractor factory, surpassing Fiat.

1940

Thanks to his flair, sensing the needs of the moment, in a succession of successes, he invented and produced 3-point plows with air piston and compressor; anchor grubbers; tine harrows and two-body coulters; disc harrow; the famous Voltaorecchio plow (with patent); up to the “fresara,” a plow with tiller that with a single pass “plows and tills” thus preparing the soil for planting.
In the 1960s the third generation fully took over in the guise of Vincenzo’s son, Alessi Remo, who inherited his father’s great inventiveness and passion and began the production of ratchet, screw and hydraulic presses. These were very successful as they reduced the time it took to press the grapes.

1976

It builds and manufactures 1- and 4-speed tillers and power harrows, and while it supplies plows to Massey Fergusson tractors, in 1990 it patented “one pass,” a machine consisting of two rotors that after plowing with a single pass prepares the soil for planting.

1997

Following in the footsteps of the great men of previous generations, Alessi Antonello’s ORTIFLOR was born.

2002

With the arrival of Alessi Cristian, Ortiflor became Ortiflor Group, which acquired several foreign markets.

2022

With courage and determination, the Alessi brothers are celebrating 20 years in business.
Firmly believing that the drive for innovation, will always be the prerequisite for the competitiveness of Interrasassi Ortiflor Group, we will continue to offer our customers professional, customized and quality machines.