In the 1800s the “Pastificio di Chiavenna” was founded as a mill in 1868 in the center of Chiavenna along the river Mera. The water of the river was exploited to produce the necessary energy to move both the millstones and the machines of the mill to produce the pasta. The old mill, has become an interesting museum of industrial archaeology that can be visited all the days and run by the Consorzio Turistico Valchiavenna.

From the 60s on, besides the traditional production of durum semolina wheat pasta, the Pastificio produces also some specialities from Valtellina (the Pizzoccheri), that in this way have come out from the strictly local place of Chiavenna.

The Pastificio obtained by the Ministry of Health the authorization to produce the dietetic pasta, that’s to say pasta with different requirements from the traditional pasta. From then the activity of the company has specialized more and more in the production of gluten free pasta, baby food pasta and other dietetic pasta.