From the beginning of the 1900s, numerous attempts were made to develop a wood vacuum drying process. Despite all the various studies carried out, the process was never industrialized. In 1962, in Turin, Vincenzo Pagnozzi began his original research on the wood vacuum drying process that ended in 1965 with a registered patent. A company was founded based on this invention and it grew constantly, producing machinery and developing new technologies that generated 89 patents over the first few decades of operation.