About us
About us
For over 70 years, transporting the impossible has been our daily routine.
For us, doing a job well is not just a professional duty, but a passion that drives us beyond the limits of the possible. Every move tells a story of technical challenges resolved, spaces conquered, complex projects, and expertise that few companies in Italy can claim.
Our History
The 1950s
The company founder, Bettella Marino, saw his passion for the transport and heavy vehicle sector born as early as the 1950s.
At the time, he carried out his first transports using a horse and towed cart to bring fruit and vegetables from the family garden to Piazza della Frutta in Padua for sale managed by his wife.
Later, relatives and neighbors also made use of this service, helping to grow his business, while Marino was already studying to get his license, confident that he would succeed in buying his first heavy vehicle.
Thus, he succeeded in founding the company in 1956, then called “M.Bettella“, later with the collaboration of his first employees.
The 1960s
While visiting industry trade fairs abroad, Mr. Bettella immediately fell in love with the first innovative vehicles with hydraulic cranes used in Germany to load timber and bring it down to the valley.
In Italy, they were not yet for sale and cost as much as a truck at the time! Thus, with great sacrifice and determination, he decided to purchase a vehicle and become a pioneer of crane transport in our country.
Late 1990s
The transport sector using vehicles equipped with cranes began to expand.
The company’s employees began to specialize more and more in the printing industry and subsequently also in the handling of industrial machinery for other sectors, collaborating with mechanics in charge of assembly and disassembly operations to provide a true turnkey service.
Early 2000s
In order to offer an increasingly complete service (especially in the printing sector with German clients such as MANROLAND and KBA), mechanical, electrical, and electronic assembly teams were formed, trained directly by the manufacturers.
Thanks to this, the company operates as a “prime contractor” for industrial plant transfers and company relocations, carrying out major moves such as that of a new rotary press from Preston (United Kingdom) to Mestre for the printing of “Il Gazzettino”.
2015 – The Electric Revolution
The first electric cranes were born: a true revolution that changed the global lifting landscape. Bettella immediately seized this drive for innovation, beginning a path of technological evolution that would lead the company to adopt increasingly cutting-edge solutions for industrial handling.
2021
After over 15 years of experience in industrial assembly and disassembly, Bettella Service Srl was officially established, formalizing a service that the company had already been offering for some time.
From the mechanical and electrical skills developed over the years, the international experience gained in complex projects worldwide, and the growing demand for “turnkey” services, a new company was born as specialized support for industrial assembly, completing the company’s offering.
Today
Through decades of technological transformations and industrial revolutions, the company has evolved from a small family business into an international benchmark for complex industrial relocations throughout Europe.
Yet, the same determination that drove Marino Bettella to transform a simple fruit and vegetable cart into an innovative transport business, that same pioneering spirit that led him to import the first cranes from Germany, still lives today in every project we tackle.
After over 70 years, we are still the same: those who turn the impossible into the possible.
Bettella Cav. Marino by the Numbers
Beyond Every Limit
In over 70 years of history, we have evolved to become the solvers of impossible problems in the industrial sector.
Where others see insurmountable obstacles—cramped spaces, multi-million dollar plants, complex handling—we design turnkey solutions, from disassembly to functional reassembly. Innovation and sustainability guide our future with cutting-edge electric equipment. Our goal is to be the indispensable strategic partner for industries facing the most complex transfers.
Where others stop, we begin.
Some of Our Work
Every industrial transfer tells a unique story of technical challenges, innovative solutions, and results that others considered impossible. From multi-ton printing machinery crossing Europe to installations in unthinkable spaces, every project represents our ability to transform complex problems into concrete successes.
These are some of the projects that best represent who we are and what we can do.
