I'm from the city of Bologna -Italy- the land of lasagna, tortellini,and spaghetti alla bolognese ...ha ha ha
Not only that, Bologna is an important pole of industries for all kind of machinery, packing, roasting, sigarette,paper,food and many other stuff.
I was working many year as programmer and customer service and I travell a lot around the planet.
Sick of the european life style which bring to me a lot of stress and health problems, i decide to seattle in thailand, completly different and with some oppurtunity to begin a new life, also in the middle of an area of intrest for coffee.
Thailand i very diffent from our concept of standard but not so hard to find technology, work shops, tools, materials, resonable man power cost and enough skilled for most of the jobs I need to do
In other country in this area this is not possible.
The mentality of local people and life style not easy to understand and first step was to make clear I'm european and I will not be a thai, and thai's will not be as an european. So, fix some distance or limit that you not able to across but not so strictly to live with them.
Choosing the place was pretty hard but i did the right thing: stay away from turist area full of 24 hours drunken people, desperate from all countries and go go girls. I'm living in northeast province Nakhonratchasima city (second biggest province after Bankok) and life here much more close to my requirement, most important not turist around, those foreigner I can see in this area are married people and living with their family with same purpose of mine.
Before take this decision, my uncle and other friend of mine, retired from their previous business, came to me with some idea's (they previously work in roaster machine company) to develop a project for a new machine , very ambitious project so we start work together in italy for almost 6 month then I move here and in the last 4 years we built 3 different machines one was sold and in production the other 2 still here for demonstration and test with different kind of burner and different kind of material. The 15Kg is already at the end the 30Kg already built with some final adjustment and few things about look design to complete.
Next one is a 60KG already draw - and a double drum machine for batch of 30kg every 7-8 minute under development.
I keep myself busy.