Our Story


1960

 

Leandro Mossa came as a guest worker from Italy to Germany.


1980

 

Unsatisfied with the quality of Tortellini available in Germany, Leandro Mossa started to produce original Italian pasta.


1990

 

Leandro Mossa started his own company under the name “LIHO”, which is an abbreviation of the first production site in Linkenheim-Hochstetten.



 1992

 

Leandro's son Claudio joined the company. At that time, organic as well as conventional pasta was produced.


1998

 

The transition to an exclusively organic production took place.


2005

 

The name LIHO GmbH changed to Pasta Nuova GmbH and the well-known Pasta Nuova logo was created.



2010

 

The company and production site moved from Linkenheim-Hochstetten to its current location in nearby Graben-Neudorf.


2012

 

A new gnocchi machine was installed, which allowed the production of filled gnocchi specialities.


2017

 

Pasta Nuova is still growing. At the moment we have around 40 employees and are further investing to meet the rising demand.



2019

 

We created a new brand logo for our brand "Pasta Nuova".


2020

 

We celebrated the 30th birthday of Pasta Nuova.


2020

 

Our production site in Graben-Neudorf is too small and we got a new warehouse 10km away.


2020

 

We are proud of our first new truck!