My name is Filippo Borgato, and my professional career began in 1993 in the province of Venice, when I was hired as an apprentice in a small company (at that time called Bottega) providing maintenance on moulds for plastic materials. The company, founded only a few years earlier, shared its history with many other small Venetian companies in the mechanical sector, created in garages and under steps thanks to their founders' stubbornness and sacrifices. My first role was as the "workshop boy", but I slowly learned to work at the benches and use traditional machines like the miller, pantograph, radial drill, lathe and other tools. After a lowly start, little by little I began to get passionate about the work. I finished my apprenticeship in 1998, which coincided with my very first experiences with CNC machines; the same year, I was entrusted with an electronic milling machine capable of scanning resins and three-dimensional models.
Between 1999 and 2000 I used the first CAD/CAM tool (Delcam), at that time considered the height of manufacturing technology. In that period I also had my first experiences with modern 3-axis work centres, equipped with tool change, 3D calibrator and ethernet network.
Over the years, I decided to abandon the CAD design of the moulds to specialise in CAM programming and CNC machine management.