{"id":3882,"date":"2015-05-20T14:47:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T12:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dalpasso.it\/la-nostra-storia-2\/"},"modified":"2015-12-01T11:54:13","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T10:54:13","slug":"our-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dalpasso.it\/en\/our-history\/","title":{"rendered":"OUR HISTORY"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\t<div class=\" \" style=\" width: 100%; margin-top:-41px; margin-bottom: 40px;\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"home_paralax\" style=\"background-image:url('https:\/\/www.dalpasso.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Scansione0001.jpg'); !important; padding-top:150px; padding-bottom:5px\" data-type=\"background\" >\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"main_content_area\" style=\"padding:0px;\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container oi_break\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>Numbers are important<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/h2>\n<div class=\"oi_caption\">\n<p>Numbers are important, all right. Our 60 years of activity, for example, is an important aim for us and for all those who have improved their lives thanks to a Dalpasso Ocular Prosthesis, the product of a company that has the largest number of patients: 17,000<\/p>\n<p>The resin ocular prosthesis was born from an idea of our founder who enthusiastically developed it. It remains with us in first place in Italy. And in our hearts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<div class=\"main_content_area\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"container\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"row\">\r\n            \t<div class=\"col-md-12\">[vc_row full_width=&#8221;&#8221; parallax=&#8221;&#8221; parallax_image=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_separator color=&#8221;turquoise&#8221; align=&#8221;align_center&#8221; border_width=&#8221;2&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6810\" style=\"width: 238px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dalpasso.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/padre.jpg\" class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6810\" class=\"wp-image-6810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dalpasso.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/padre.jpg\" alt=\"Curzio Dalpasso\" width=\"228\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6810\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The founder Curzio Dalpasso in an image of the 80s.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]The history of the Dalpasso laboratories comes from the intuition of Curzio Dalpasso.<br \/>\nBorn in Ravenna in 1922, he was a technician in \u201cOfficine Reggiane\u201d, a historical Reggio Emilia based company.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the end of the Second World War, due to widespread unemployment and the many victims of war injuries, Curzio Dalpasso had the intuition that completely changed his life and the lives of everyone working for this company: He began the manufactoring and the application of ocular prostheses made of acrylic resin, a material that had reached Italy just a few years beforehand.<br \/>\nProstheses constructed up to then had been made of glass, a really unsuitable material for obtaining a good aesthetic and functional result.<br \/>\nIn fact, resin prostheses were an immediate success.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7256\" style=\"width: 216px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dalpasso.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Minerva-Chirurgica.jpg\" class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7256\" class=\"wp-image-7256 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dalpasso.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Minerva-Chirurgica-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"Minerva Chirurgica del 1967 con uno studio del nostro fondatore Curzio Dalpasso e del prof. Francesconi sulle epitesi ricostruttive nei casi di neoplasia\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dalpasso.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Minerva-Chirurgica-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.dalpasso.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Minerva-Chirurgica.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7256\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minerva Surgical 1967 with a study of our founder.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=&#8221;&#8221; parallax=&#8221;&#8221; parallax_image=&#8221;&#8221; el_id=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text]<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dalpasso.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/primocertificazione.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6807 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dalpasso.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/certificato-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"Lo storico certificato di iscrizione alla CCIAA del 1958\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dalpasso.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/certificato-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/www.dalpasso.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/certificato.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<p>The company&#8217;s first certificate of\u00a0incorporation dated 1958[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Already in 1952<\/strong> a small laboratory was opened in Reggio Emilia,with the help of a young colleague he had met at Officine Reggiane, Paola Firenzuoli, who had in the meantime become his wife. The couple were among the first in Italy to produce and apply acrylic resin ocular prostheses and <strong>Laboratori Oftalmotecnici Dalpasso<\/strong> (the company\u2019s original name) also concentrated on the production of PMMA contact lenses, both corneal and scleral, for correcting ametropia and corneal alterations that were difficult to correct at the time, such as\u00a0 keratoconus, aniridia, aphakia, coloboma, atrophy of the eye bulb, etc.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p>The workshop increased the employees number soon and developed partnerships with most of the ophthalmologists and plastic surgeons and maxillofacial, sensitive and interested in this new branch of surgery. In a few years Laboratories Dalpasso became synonymous with <strong>Handmade artificial eyes<\/strong> and landmark for patients who were not satisfied with most of the old glass prosthesis or with a standardized form.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text]<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dalpasso.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/invalididiguerra.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6808\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dalpasso.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/invalidi.jpg\" alt=\"Un vecchio contratto con l\u2019Opera Nazionale Invalidi di Guerra datato 1966\" width=\"250\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dalpasso.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/invalidi.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.dalpasso.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/invalidi-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6>Agreement with the National<br \/>\nOpera War Invalids of 1966<\/h6>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=&#8221;&#8221; parallax=&#8221;&#8221; parallax_image=&#8221;&#8221; el_id=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text]<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6481 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dalpasso.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/WEB-Notturno-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"La sede di Reggio Emilia, oggi\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dalpasso.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/WEB-Notturno-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dalpasso.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/WEB-Notturno.jpg 544w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>The headquarters in Reggio Emilia, today<\/h6>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p>In 1990, after forty years\u2019 business, Laboratori became a limited liability company. Since 1991, the year in which the founder Curzio Dalpasso passed away, his wife Paola Firenzuoli has been our chairwoman.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">DALPASSO S.r.l. is now a modern company, with the largest operational site in Europe and makes use of highly specialist prosthetic technicians.<br \/>\nDalpasso s.r.l. is the unrivalled leader in Italy \u2013 every year over seven thousand patients are examined \u2013 but it has made the decision to maintain the quality and prestige of personalised hand crafted prostheses, like it did back in 1950, keeping alive an idea that is still valid and has never faded.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=&#8221;&#8221; parallax=&#8221;&#8221; parallax_image=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_separator color=&#8221;turquoise&#8221; align=&#8221;align_center&#8221; border_width=&#8221;2&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text] [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]The history of the Dalpasso laboratories comes from the intuition of Curzio Dalpasso. 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