Private company

Perlini

Logo: perlinidumpers.com3

Italian lorry manufacturer

Perlini or Perlini Equipment SpA is an Italian off-road dump truck/lorry manufacturer. Established in 1957 by Roberto Perlini, Perlini is based in San Bonifacio.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1957Founded1
  • Industrymanufacture of machinery and equipment1
  • HeadquartersGambellara1
  • Founded inGambellara1
  • Websitewww.perlinidumpers.com
  • Legal formjoint-stock company1
Bauma 2016 (26457558520)
Photo: Neuwieser from Germany, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons5

Perlini or Perlini Equipment SpA is an Italian off-road dump truck/lorry manufacturer.2

The story

Perlini started as an industrial vehicle transformation company in 1957. In 1961, it started directly producing dump trucks, still its main business today.

In the sixties, Perlini started selling a very large volume of dump trucks in the Chinese market, starting a very important commercial relationship, enduring through the years until the beginning of twenty-first century. Perlini trucks were employed in many large projects, including the construction of the Xiaolangdi Dam and Ertan dam.

In the late eighties, Perlini started participating in competitive races with its on-road dump trucks. The Perlini 105F "Red Tiger" has notably won the Dakar Rally four consecutive times, from 1990 to 1993.

In 2010, at the Bauma Construction Equipment fair, Perlini announced a partnership with Volvo Construction Equipment for distribution in the European market.

After the company went bankrupt in 2016, has been bought by Cangialeoni Group in 2018, now the new Industrie Macchine Perlini work in Gambellara and produce the latest rigid dumpers.

From Wikipedia’s article on Perlini, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Products and brands

  • truck

Listed on Wikidata.1

Dump Trucks

Currently, Perlini produces dump trucks with a capacity from 30 to 95 metric tons, and it has sold over 12,000 units in the international market.

DP 255

DP 405 WD

DP 605

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DP 705 WD

DP 905

DPT 70

Discontinued dump trucks

DP205

DP 366

DP 655

DP 755

DP 855

DP 955

T20

T40

All terrain vehicles

Models 131 and 105 F - for Dakar Rally

fire trucks

AIS Perlini Baribbi crash tender using Perlini 605D chassis

B502 4x4 Rosehbauer

quarry mining equipment

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Timeline

  1. 1957Founded Founded in Gambellara1

Sources

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