The Company is specialized in the production of automatic Machines for Ice Cream Cones and Wafer Molded products. produces six models of fully automatic ice cream cone baking machines with capacity of 2.500 to 17.200 pieces per hour. Arnaldo Lisarelli was an aircraft engineer for the Italian Air force during World War II. After the war, he worked for a few months in a small company producing man
ual carbon heated cones baking machines. The company owner soon closed down his factory and Mr Lisarelli decided to go into his own business. In 1947 he founded his first company ORMA in Rome. He engineered his own type of manual machine, different from the previous ones and with the best quality materials: a new baking system, automatic falling of the cones and . Post war business boomed and, in the 1950’s , with the growing demand for his machines, he moved to a bigger facility where he continued improving his equipment. Arnaldo, found an opportunity to manufacture fully automatic ovens for the growing ice cream cones market. Later, in 1963, he moved with his sons to a bigger factory in Rome, named A.L.M.A. In ALMA he engineered the prototype of a fully automatic cone baking machine, with his son Manlio, with advices from friends and customers. In 1968, the first automatic machine was patented. This automatic machine after reconditioning, it is still running. The automatic machine was a success in Italy and worldwide. With the worldwide success of the automatic machine, a bigger factory was built in 1984 in the industrial area near Rome: I.M.A.R. Ltd (Industria Macchine Alimentari Roma)
I.M.A.R. continues to research and develop innovative technologies to improve the automatic cone production machines . Our goal is to continue improving AML cone production machines to meet the immediate and future needs of our customers worldwide. company is proudly Italian made and owned.
