The company FRATELLI ROTONDI began its activity in the 1943 with the planing and the construction of measuring and testing instruments for mechanical purpose as surface plates, standard square, V blocks, straight edges, standard rules gauges etc. The company grew in the years extending the range of the instruments, improving the productive processes and distinguishes itself in the quality and in the reliability. In the philosophy of improving quality since in the beginning of '50 years the company had laboratory with controlled environmental conditions (temperature humidity and vibration) and extended its range of production with optics instruments and measuring systems for measuring equipment's and machining tools. In this years began also the co-operation with National and International Institutes of Metrology. In the middle of '60 years FRATELLI ROTONDI FARO began the production of the bidimensional measuring machines and in the next years tridimensional.