Company History

Pompe Garbarino was founded in Acqui Terme in the province of Alessandria, Piedmont in Italy in 1932 to address the growing demands for pumping technology of the local wine industry and aqueducts. After the war Paolo Garbarino, the founder, decided to enter into new markets and, at the beginning of the 1950’s, forged close ties with the Italian Navy enabling expansion into the field of the marine pumps.

Since then Pompe Garbarino has grown to become a supplier to major shipyards in Europe and Asia, ship owners worldwide, the Italian Navy since 1950 (official supplier) as well as several other foreign navies and to become the world’s leading company in the supply of pumps to the cruise shipbuilding industry (more than 80 cruise vessels supplied).

The decision to diversify the firm’s market base by entering the industrial field (including engineering companies, chemical and petrochemical plants, desalination plants, power stations, steel mills, etc.) dates back to the beginning of the 1980’s and, in 1994, Pompe Garbarino opened a sales branch in Milan in order to increase the market share in the industrial field.

In 2007 Pompe Garbarino celebrates 75 years of activity establishing a new turnover record since its foundation even after the impressive results in 2006.

The company has remained in the hands of the Garbarino family. As the founder Paolo, handed over the day to day control of the firm to his son, Carlo, Carlo’s sons Paolo and Danilo now form part of the senior management team thus establishing a third generation of family ownership.