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hen Carmelite monks in Wyoming needed a stone cutting machine for a new Gothic monastery they’re building near Yellowstone National Park, they called Prussiani USA, an affi liate of Prussiani
Engineering Srl (Bergamo, Italy;
www.prussiani.com). Alex Elzein, director of operations for Prussiani USA (St. Louis,
MO;
www.prussiani.com), met with the monks in Wisconsin to show them stone-cutting machines at two clients’ locations. The religious men chose a New Champion Plus 1300; a Prussiani technician installed the machine in late 2013 and taught the monks how to use it.
Not all of Prussiani’s stone cutting and working machines are used for such lofty purposes, however.
About 150 of its machines—the company also makes bridge
saws, milling machines, work centers, water jet cutters and lathes—are in use in the United States, mostly to make kitchen countertops, but also to produce ornamental and architectural fl ourishes for buildings, says Elzein. Prussiani
is among a number of Italian manufacturers
who produce equipment to process stone, while others make machines to work glass, control fl uids and air, and print and fold paper. Although they are different in many ways, some common themes emerge from their stories.
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