THE HISTORY OF SPADONE
1850's
The Spadone family opens Gutta Percha Co., maker of rubber mats and in particular fire hoses, for the Fire Department of New York City.
1917
Gutta Percha invents the first bias cutter, designed to cut fire hose on the bias. The Spadone’s decide to make this cutter available to the up and coming tire industry, thus Spadone Machine Company is born.
1939
During World War II, one bias cutter per week is shipped to tire companies that become defense plants for the war effort. Spadone becomes known as the “King of the Bias Cutters.”
1943
With the advent of wire fabric for radial tires in the early 1940s, Spadone begins selling Alfa Electric Shears. The Alfa adapts to both the vertical and horizontal bias cutters to later become known as the wire fabric bias cutter in the 1960s.
1950
Peter Spadone, an honored Veteran, joins the company and adds other equipment such as tire tread trucks, buffers, and skivers to the product portfolio.
1953
The truck division opens as Romero Metal Products. They make guillotines and thousands of passenger tire tread trucks for tire companies in the U.S. and abroad.
1964
The Company moves to South Norwalk, Connecticut to an expanded production facility.
1970
Spadone opens a facility in East Norwalk where they manufacture tread end cement machines, as well as smaller guillotines.
1980
From the 1960s to the late 1980s Spadone begins selling Vaqua blast machines used for cleaning tire molds, nuclear decontamination, jet engine fan blade cleaning, and file sharpening.
1986
Spadone receives license to manufacture Vent Trimming machines from Firestone, and begins selling these machines worldwide.
2010
Spadone expands production capacity to manufacture “best in class” equipment for its global customer base.
2017
Spadone celebrates 100 years of manufacturing excellence for the tire, rubber, plastics, food and pharmaceutical industries.
2026
Spadone offically joins the Troester Group of Compaines and relocates all operations to Akron, Ohio.
