Formeco was born in 1971 as a manufacturer of industrial high-pressure cleaners.
The conversion to a Company dedicated to the production of distillation systems comes from the intuition of his founders, Adriano Nicolè and Ruggero Broglio, as a result of a specific need for a large furniture manufacturer.

These companies normally use large quantities of solvents, especially acetone, for cleaning paint systems. The distillation process was already known, widely used in refining hydrocarbons, for example. This is a process by which a volatile element (the solvent, in this case) can be separated from a non-volatile material (paint or other solid contaminants, for example). The technical staff designed a suitable prototype for this purpose. The test was positive: no functioning problem and excellent quality of the distillate. Other than the environmental benefit, an amortization period lower than one year was calculated.