IMAMOTER is a Public Research Institute of the Italian National Research Council (C.N.R.). Headquarters are locater at Cassana (FE) and a branch is located in Turin. The official birth of the Institute for agricultural and earthmoving machines (IMAMOTER) falls in 2002 but it receives the heritage of two previous Institutes: the Institute for earthmoving machines and off-road vehicles (CEMOTER) and the Institute for agricultural mechanization (IMA). The background story, in brief, is the following; 1) the CEMOTER Institute started (with a different name) in the mid sixties as a Center of the National Research Council located in the Polytechnic Institute of Torino, where it stayed until 1981 when it moved to Ferrara and became an independent Institute, with the partial support of external parties (among them the Municipality of Ferrara and the National Association of Earthmoving Machine Manufacturers, i.e. UNACOMA-COMAMOTER); 2) the IMA Institute started (with a different name) in the early fifties in Torino as an Institute of the National Research Council, with the cooperation of external parties (among them the Municipality of Torino, the University of Torino, and the FIAT company), and underwent successive development stages and expansions. In the late eighties the basic location of the Institute moved to the newly built Research Area of Torino.