Demaco was founded in 1914 making it the oldest pasta equipment manufacturer in the United States and the only one that makes industrial capacity machines in America. In the 1960s, Demaco pioneered the sanitary extruder for
washdown food plants.
History
Originally located in
Brooklyn
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, New York, the company moved its headquarters to
Melbourne, Florida
Melbourne ( ) is a city in Brevard County, Florida, United States. It is located southeast of Orlando, Florida, Orlando along Florida's Space Coast, named because of the region's proximity to Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Center. The city ...
in 1998, which is where it is today. The company became Consolidated Macaroni Machine Corporation in 1926 and changed the name to Demaco in 1952.
In
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
, Consolidated made tooling for the
Norden bombsight,
Grumman
The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, later Grumman Aerospace Corporation, was a 20th century American producer of military and civilian aircraft. Founded on December 6, 1929, by Leroy Grumman and his business partners, it merged in 19 ...
aircraft fighter wings and
Worthington pumps as part of the war effort. In the late 1930s, DEMACO introduced and patented an automated spaghetti spreader with a continuous drive and trim handling system.
[National Macaroni Manufacturers Association. "Making Macaroni Equipment", ''The Macaroni Journal'', volume XXXV, number 12 (Minneapolis, Minnesota: April 1954), page 40.][Cavagnaro, N. J. "Story of the Macaroni Press", ''The Macaroni Journal'', volume XXI, number 12, (Minneapolis, Minnesota: April 1940), page 74.] This innovation permitted the first continuous production of long pasta on a manufacturing line instead of making product in batches. DEMACO machines permitted all aspects of production in one machine, the first of its kind. It also permitted production of spaghetti without contact by human hands for a more sanitary process.
[ Paramount Macaroni Company of Brooklyn, New York installed the first spaghetti spreader.][ Also in the 1940s and early 1950s, DEMACO made significant improvements to pasta dryer automation and control as well as sanitary design of equipment.][ In 1993, the company started a dryer manufacturing facility in Melbourne, Florida, and the remainder of the company moved there soon afterwards.
In 1983, the company received the New York Governors Award for Export Achievement.
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Products
The company makes the Demaco extruder and dry, fresh and frozen pasta lines. The company exports its machines worldwide.[Murray, Caryn Eve]
"Curbing Shoppers' Urge to 'Burb"
New York Newsday, New York, New York, volume 54, number 170, February 20, 1994, Queens section, page 13.
References
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1914 establishments in New York (state)
American pasta companies
Companies based in Brevard County, Florida
Industrial machine manufacturers
Manufacturing companies based in Florida
Manufacturing companies established in 1914
Melbourne, Florida
Privately held companies based in Florida