Macap, acronym for Macina Caffè Petiziol, took this name at the end of the ‘80s. The company, today led by its third generation, was born in 1930, when the founder Ottorino Petiziol opened his mechanical workshop in the Venetian hinterland.
Coffee spread quickly through the Arabian Peninsula. In the mid 14th century, coffee cultivation reached Yemen and for 300 years, it was drunk following the recipe first used in Ethiopia. Yemen's climate and fertile soil offered the ideal conditions for cultivating rich coffee harvests
