Designer and manufacturer of food systems with a specialty in pasta machines. DEMACO builds equipment for making fresh, frozen, dry, filled, and sheeted pasta.
Niagara Macaroni Company of Buffalo, New York. Pasta made on machines built by Consolidated Macaroni Machine Corporation, predecessor to DEMACO. From the DEMACO Pasta Museum.
In 1914, LaRosa Macaroni bought their first press from I. DeFrancisci & Son (now DEMACO). The two companies forged a great partnership. LaRosa had many innovative ideas, which prompted DEMACO to develop new technology. Feedback from our customers helps us build better machines.
Making spaghetti on Consolidated Macaroni Machine Corporation hydraulic presses at Los Angeles Pacific Macaroni Company in 1932. Consolidated became DEMACO in 1952. L.A. Pacific Macaroni was formed in 1928 as a merger of L.A. Macaroni Co, Pacific Macaroni Co and U.S. Macaroni Co.
Big rollers and heavy duty gears are trademark aspects of a DEMACO sheetformer. Although the DEMACO sheetformer was modernized in later models, the core principle of robust construction still remains an essential element to the design.
Ad from the 1925 Macaroni Journal. These vintage macaroni machines made excellent pasta using slow, cool extrusion and low shear. DEMACO still uses these fundamental principles for extruders today, 100 years later.