Three new Adige CM601 to Univers
Aktualisiert am: 27.12.2005 18:32
The key to UNIVER’s production: combining quality, price and delivery successfully, to compete with Chinese products.
A winning bet
When competing directly with low-value products from Asia, you cannot make mistakes. The continuing success of Univers Srl, clearly demonstrates that aggressive competition, from cheap-labour countries, can be met most effectively by long-term strategies, technological investment and a demonic attention to the right combination of quality, price and delivery in a mature marketplace.
Based at Gussago in the Italian province of Brescia, Univers produces valves, flanges and turned parts in brass. A member of the Bonomi Group, based in Lumezzane, founded in 1901, it now employs over 230 people and last year’s turnover exceeded €70 million. Other Group members include famous international companies such as Rubinetterie Bresciane (RB), Valbia and Vapres.
The group specialises in the production of taps, and ball valves in brass and steel for water, gas and pneumatic applications for the building, civil engineering and industrial sectors. Univers’s production capacity and high technological capability are used both within the group and for sub-contracting. Univers produces all forms of small turned parts and fittings to customer specification, particularly for the brass stampings sector, where they have a vast amount of market experience.
3000 stampings per hour
Remaining highly competitive with low value products is a winner for Univers thanks to intense and continual investment in high technology and automatic production lines covering every aspect of their production process. From tube to bar, from cold stamping to deburring, from metalworking to finishing.
Their clear and firm objective is to combine high quality with market prices, whilst remaining profitable but highly competitive with their Chinese opposition.
Recent investments have included three ADIGE CM601 two bar automatic sawing machines, to complement the two CM501’s and a CM500 saw, previously installed. Having the capability of cutting two bars at the same time on the new CM601’s has now dramatically increased the flow of cut billets to the stamping presses – each press can produce in excess of 3000 components an hour.
“We are cutting bar from 25mm to 50mm in diameter, usually in brass. The ADIGE cuts our billets accurately and automatically without burrs, this guarantees the quality of our end product.
We also achieve significantly better material optimisation and reductions in final trimming and finishing operations”.
The search for optimum quality.
Univers runs a two shift production and the reliability and performance of the ADIGE ensures that overall production is never compromised. The ADIGE saws are an important strategic element in the continual search for optimum quality which the company rigorously controls and measures.
These working practices have enabled them to obtain UNI EN ISO 9001 approval recognised by SQS (the Swiss Association for Quality and Management).
A winning bet
When competing directly with low-value products from Asia, you cannot make mistakes. The continuing success of Univers Srl, clearly demonstrates that aggressive competition, from cheap-labour countries, can be met most effectively by long-term strategies, technological investment and a demonic attention to the right combination of quality, price and delivery in a mature marketplace.
Based at Gussago in the Italian province of Brescia, Univers produces valves, flanges and turned parts in brass. A member of the Bonomi Group, based in Lumezzane, founded in 1901, it now employs over 230 people and last year’s turnover exceeded €70 million. Other Group members include famous international companies such as Rubinetterie Bresciane (RB), Valbia and Vapres.
The group specialises in the production of taps, and ball valves in brass and steel for water, gas and pneumatic applications for the building, civil engineering and industrial sectors. Univers’s production capacity and high technological capability are used both within the group and for sub-contracting. Univers produces all forms of small turned parts and fittings to customer specification, particularly for the brass stampings sector, where they have a vast amount of market experience.
3000 stampings per hour
Remaining highly competitive with low value products is a winner for Univers thanks to intense and continual investment in high technology and automatic production lines covering every aspect of their production process. From tube to bar, from cold stamping to deburring, from metalworking to finishing.
Their clear and firm objective is to combine high quality with market prices, whilst remaining profitable but highly competitive with their Chinese opposition.
Recent investments have included three ADIGE CM601 two bar automatic sawing machines, to complement the two CM501’s and a CM500 saw, previously installed. Having the capability of cutting two bars at the same time on the new CM601’s has now dramatically increased the flow of cut billets to the stamping presses – each press can produce in excess of 3000 components an hour.
“We are cutting bar from 25mm to 50mm in diameter, usually in brass. The ADIGE cuts our billets accurately and automatically without burrs, this guarantees the quality of our end product.
We also achieve significantly better material optimisation and reductions in final trimming and finishing operations”.
The search for optimum quality.
Univers runs a two shift production and the reliability and performance of the ADIGE ensures that overall production is never compromised. The ADIGE saws are an important strategic element in the continual search for optimum quality which the company rigorously controls and measures.
These working practices have enabled them to obtain UNI EN ISO 9001 approval recognised by SQS (the Swiss Association for Quality and Management).