The idea of ​​the distillery in Pozzallo was very good. Located near the station, the Catania brothers Francesco and Pietro Giuffrida took that plot of land, being able to count on a workforce of more than two hundred people from Pozzallo. Wealth and prosperity were synonymous for that factory that produced alcohol from carob extraction. On that site there were several offices, warehouses, garages and huge tanks. A concrete tower that still stands today despite the wear and tear of time.
The company representative was Mr. Alfio Nicolosi. The factory stopped operations on 21 December 1949. "On the occasion of the Christmas holidays - said the two owner brothers - and in order to proceed with the fine-tuning of the systems, it is necessary to suspend production". "Two hundred and thirty workers - writes Paolo Monello in "La memoria e il futuro" (2006) - remained at home and only 62 were kept on duty. Twenty days later the Chamber of Labor asked the management of the plant when the opening was expected. The answer was not very convincing: "None of us can establish it with certainty - they replied from the Giuffrida offices - at least for as long as the crisis in the alcohol trade lasts".
The factory never reopened, leaving many Pozzallo residents out of work. Abandoned for several decades, the building was purchased in the 1980s by the Spadaro brothers from Ispica, owners, to date, of the ancient and ancient building.