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Tramontina is a family-run Brazilian metallurgical company founded in 1911 by italian immigrant Valentin Tramontina. The company manufactures cutlery , cookware, home appliances, and tools for agriculture, gardening, industrial work, automotive maintenance, civil construction, and electrical repair.
Originally called "Northwestern Steel and Iron Works" the company changed its name to the "National Pressure Cooker Company" in 1929 and then National Presto Industries, Inc. 1953. [3] The company originally produced pressure canners for commercial, and later home, use. Beginning in 1939, the company introduced small home-use cooking appliances.
It began manufacture of pressure cookers in 1959 with technical collaboration from Prestige Group of the United Kingdom. [1] The company went public in 1994, and changed to its present name in 1994. It is known for its innovative marketing strategy, be it distributing pamphlets by helicopter in the fifties or introducing the exchange scheme.
However, the manufacturers of the "New World" gas ranges in the mid-1930s gave away recipe books for use with their cooker, and the "Regulo" was the gas regulator. [2] The book has no reference to degrees. All dishes to be cooked are noted to be at "Regulo Mark X".