In 1974, the Lazzari-Tamburini engineering workshops opened in Rimini, working on high-precision orders to customer specifications. A few years later,after constant growth in production and turnover, a new company was founded with the specific aim of expanding into the production of machines destined, above all, for use by the hotel, restaurant and community catering sectors.

The year was 1979, and the new company was given the name "Fimar". Work started at once on the manufacture of mincers, graters and combinaion machines, the predecessors of the present model 1 2. Following the success obtained in these early years at Milan's Expo.