The new product received immediate unanimous success on the modern construction market and, in 1974, constant demand lead to the first industrial transformation with the installation of a new fully automated system with a production capacity of 2,300 tiles/hour.
In the 1980’s the company designed the CoppoPortoghese, a new model Portuguese roof tile unique to Europe, remaining today the company’s crowning achievement and the keystone to promoting Gambale products abroad.
In 2003, the company also inaugurated a production plant in Qingdao in Eastern China, to meet local needs and in anticipation of the 2008 Olympic Games.
The year 2007 saw the opening of a further plant in Candela, Foggia in Italy initially for production of the CoppoMediteraneo roof tile, later in 2009 also the CoppoItalia roof tile, aimed at the Central-Southern market of Italy.
The "Gambale ship” may cross many stormy times, but it will always reach calm shores.
Vittorio Gambale, today the “helmsman” alongside his wife Anna and sons Stefano and Marco, after 40 years of success and sacrifice, quote a phrase by the Italian politician and economist Luigi Einaudi, which identifies the perfection of the Gambale company spirit.

The greatest
“Thousands, millions of individuals work, produce and save despite all that we can think up to harass them, hold them back and dampen their spirits. And the natural vocation that drives them on is not usually their thirst for money. But rather the taste, the pride of seeing their own company prosper, acquire credit, inspire trust in an ever-greater client base, enlarge its workplaces and beautify its offices, constructing a mechanism of progress as powerful as earnings themselves.
If it were not so, one could not explain the existence of business people who expand all of their energy and invest all of their capital for gains that are far and away more modest than those which they could most certainly and easily obtain by other means”.
(Luigi Einaudi, Italian Politician and economist, 1874 – 1961)