Curtiriso Rice

Respect for the environment

The history of the company began thanks to Virginio Curti (1852-1927) who, around 1875, founded the first refinery in Gemonio, at the foot of the Varese Pre-Alps. Great work was done by the Curti family, which had already started to replace the old rice processing systems with more modern machinery at the end of the nineteenth century.  In 1879 he married Giuseppina Picuri, who became his most precious collaborator in running the company. Di Giuseppina, who passed away in 1936, remains the memory of the vigilant and uncompromising attention with which he followed and administered the company's financial movements and availabilities even before our century began.