The company was established in 2014 but has its roots in the far-off 1976 when Mr. Agostino Zanini founded the company Modelleria Zanini S.n.c., initially focused on the production of wooden models for sand foundries and later on the production of metal dies for light alloys foundries.
During the following years, when our clients also asked us to supply our own core boxes, the company equipped itself with machines for producing cores with the shell molding process.
Following the success that these received from the market, the small artisan business, established to produce samples and small series, expanded to the point that it deserved a dedicated production area and a reference in the name of the company leading to the birth in 1999 of Modelleria and Animisteria Franciacorta srl., specializes in the forming of cores for ventilated brake discs.
Afterwards, due to the strong market contraction of the brake discs in Italy, it was decided to make a change reorganizing the production, aiming at the market of light alloys and taking the name Zetakern.