Cressi is one of the oldest underwater diving companies presently existing: officially, it dates back to 1946, when brothers Egidio and Nanni Cressi founded it, but already 8 years before that, in 1938, they had begun small-scale manual production. So, the history of underwater diving itself is identified with the history of Cressi and many, many Cressi products have marked the evolution of this sport over the past sixty years, with a series of inventions and insights that were then followed by all the manufacturers. 

Today, Cressi is a company with 16,000 square metres of undercover space, state-of-the-art moulding machinery and robotised production systems. It has highly specialised technical offices, where all the new products are computer designed, with constant research into new materials and the proverbial strictness in the extremely severe tests and inspections.