{"id":2782,"date":"2023-04-28T19:35:33","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T19:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virginiograniti.com\/la-nostra-storia\/"},"modified":"2024-07-11T08:47:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T08:47:07","slug":"our-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.virginiograniti.com\/en\/our-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Our History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:60px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n      <div class=\"wd-block-webdevia-timeline\" data-columns=\"3\">\r\n        <ul class=\"wd-block-webdevia-timeline__events wd-block-webdevia-timeline__events-layout-vse \" >\r\n                          <li class=\"timeline__event\" style=\"flex: 0 0 calc(33.333333333333% - 10px)\">\r\n                  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.virginiograniti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/vuoto.png\" alt=\"THE FIRST QUARRIES picture\" class=\"timeline__event__img\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"\/>\r\n                  <div class=\"timeline__event__content\">\r\n                    <h4 class=\"timeline__event__content__head\"><a href=\"#\">THE FIRST QUARRIES<\/a><\/h4>\r\n                    <p class=\"timeline__event__content__text\"><span class=\"timeline__event__content__date\">60&#8217;s: <\/span>The Veronese entrepreneur Virginio Tacchella, active in the marble and granite processing sector, opens his first granite quarries in Sardinia. From here the story begins.<\/p>\r\n                  <\/div>\r\n                <\/li>\r\n                              <li class=\"timeline__event\" style=\"flex: 0 0 calc(33.333333333333% - 10px)\">\r\n                  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.virginiograniti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/vuoto.png\" alt=\"THE BIRTH picture\" class=\"timeline__event__img\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"\/>\r\n                  <div class=\"timeline__event__content\">\r\n                    <h4 class=\"timeline__event__content__head\"><a href=\"#\">THE BIRTH<\/a><\/h4>\r\n                    <p class=\"timeline__event__content__text\"><span class=\"timeline__event__content__date\">1991: <\/span>Virginio Srl was officially born, baptized with the name of its founder, as a subsidiary of Marmi Montegrappa, at the time one of the major realities in the Italian stone industry and beyond. Countless projects will be made in the coming years with Virginio granites, including some of the most important buildings in the world.<\/p>\r\n                  <\/div>\r\n                <\/li>\r\n                              <li class=\"timeline__event\" style=\"flex: 0 0 calc(33.333333333333% - 10px)\">\r\n                  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.virginiograniti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/vuoto.png\" alt=\"NEW  MANAGEMENT picture\" class=\"timeline__event__img\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"\/>\r\n                  <div class=\"timeline__event__content\">\r\n                    <h4 class=\"timeline__event__content__head\"><a href=\"#\">NEW  MANAGEMENT<\/a><\/h4>\r\n                    <p class=\"timeline__event__content__text\"><span class=\"timeline__event__content__date\">2001: <\/span>The Virginio is sold by the Veronese owners and purchased, in 2001, by the brothers Antonio and Stefano Luciano, established Sardinian entrepreneurs already active in the extraction sector with the Granite Candle. The acquisition, in fact, constitutes the birth of one of the main mining groups in Sardinia and Italy, with seven active quarries and a production that exceeds 40,000 cubic meters per year of blocks extracted. The Headquarters is moved to Olbia, Sardinia, where the company is still based today.<\/p>\r\n                  <\/div>\r\n                <\/li>\r\n                              <li class=\"timeline__event\" style=\"flex: 0 0 calc(33.333333333333% - 10px)\">\r\n                  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.virginiograniti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/vuoto.png\" alt=\"THE BRAND IS BORN: VIR | VOLCANIC ROCKS picture\" class=\"timeline__event__img\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"\/>\r\n                  <div class=\"timeline__event__content\">\r\n                    <h4 class=\"timeline__event__content__head\"><a href=\"#\">THE BRAND IS BORN: VIR | VOLCANIC ROCKS<\/a><\/h4>\r\n                    <p class=\"timeline__event__content__text\"><span class=\"timeline__event__content__date\">2002: <\/span>With the aim of increasingly projecting itself into foreign markets with different varieties of products and services, an internationalization project is carried out which leads to the creation of the VIR | VOLCANIC ROCKS.<\/p>\r\n                  <\/div>\r\n                <\/li>\r\n                              <li class=\"timeline__event\" style=\"flex: 0 0 calc(33.333333333333% - 10px)\">\r\n                  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.virginiograniti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/vuoto.png\" alt=\"EXPANSION AND NEW INVESTMENTS picture\" class=\"timeline__event__img\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"\/>\r\n                  <div class=\"timeline__event__content\">\r\n                    <h4 class=\"timeline__event__content__head\"><a href=\"#\">EXPANSION AND NEW INVESTMENTS<\/a><\/h4>\r\n                    <p class=\"timeline__event__content__text\"><span class=\"timeline__event__content__date\">2012: <\/span>Antonio Luciano immediately took the reins of the two companies, which under his direction exponentially increased their turnover and their customer base, also reaching the foreign markets of Eastern Europe and the nearby Middle East. The activity in the quarry is increasingly mechanised, with the purchase of new innovative and high-performance machinery which allows the production process to be optimised, reducing waste and improving the working conditions of the workers.<\/p>\r\n                  <\/div>\r\n                <\/li>\r\n                              <li class=\"timeline__event\" style=\"flex: 0 0 calc(33.333333333333% - 10px)\">\r\n                  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.virginiograniti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/vuoto.png\" alt=\"INCORPORATION OF CANDELA GRANITI picture\" class=\"timeline__event__img\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"\/>\r\n                  <div class=\"timeline__event__content\">\r\n                    <h4 class=\"timeline__event__content__head\"><a href=\"#\">INCORPORATION OF CANDELA GRANITI<\/a><\/h4>\r\n                    <p class=\"timeline__event__content__text\"><span class=\"timeline__event__content__date\">2013: <\/span>The management decides to merge the two companies: Virginio Graniti then incorporates Candela Graniti, thus creating a single company.<\/p>\r\n                  <\/div>\r\n                <\/li>\r\n                              <li class=\"timeline__event\" style=\"flex: 0 0 calc(33.333333333333% - 10px)\">\r\n                  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.virginiograniti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/vuoto.png\" alt=\"NEW HEADQUARTERS picture\" class=\"timeline__event__img\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"\/>\r\n                  <div class=\"timeline__event__content\">\r\n                    <h4 class=\"timeline__event__content__head\"><a href=\"#\">NEW HEADQUARTERS<\/a><\/h4>\r\n                    <p class=\"timeline__event__content__text\"><span class=\"timeline__event__content__date\">2015: <\/span>To respond to the growing needs for space, Virginio purchases an operational area adjacent to the industrial port of Olbia: 8,000 sqm. of warehouses and over 40,000 sqm. of external spaces, to accommodate blocks, slabs and finished products.<\/p>\r\n                  <\/div>\r\n                <\/li>\r\n                                  <\/ul>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      \n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.virginiograniti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/LA-NOSTRA-STORIA-FOTO-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.virginiograniti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/LA-NOSTRA-STORIA-FOTO-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.virginiograniti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/LA-NOSTRA-STORIA-FOTO-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.virginiograniti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/LA-NOSTRA-STORIA-FOTO-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.virginiograniti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/LA-NOSTRA-STORIA-FOTO-600x400.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.virginiograniti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/LA-NOSTRA-STORIA-FOTO.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virginiograniti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virginiograniti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virginiograniti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virginiograniti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virginiograniti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2782"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.virginiograniti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2858,"href":"https:\/\/www.virginiograniti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2782\/revisions\/2858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virginiograniti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}