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REPORT - POGGIPOLINI
Everything under control! The CEO of Northern Italy's titanium specialist Poggipolini is convinced that with EROWA as a partner, the family business is ready for the challenges of the future - after a decisive step into automation with an EROWA Robot Dynamic.
Focus on titanium Poggipolini S.p.A. was established in 1950, and its headquarters are still in San Lazzaro di Savena, a municipality that is part of Bologna. A number of additional production facilities are also situated in this municipality. The focus is on titanium machining; in particular, components for the automotive, aviation and aerospace industries are produced. “We’re top specialists for the design and production of critical fasteners and structural components made of titanium and special steel alloys,” explains Michele Poggipolini, who runs the company in the third generation. “Additionally, we’re specialized in the galvanic process for the anodization of titanium and the passivation of steel, and we’re certified in accordance with aviation standards,” he explains. And Cristian Bernardi, Head of Industrial Engineering, adds with pride: “The entire production process takes place in-house: from raw material procurement to hot forging, precision machining, cold and hot thread rolling up to the final heat treatment and quality checks.
What matters This aspect of keeping everything in-house and thus under control is very important for the company’s quality hilosophy, adds Michele Poggipolini, for only in this way can the firm satisfy its own requirements. “Thanks to a team of highly qualified technicians and engineers and the use of specific software, we’re able to support our customers from the design stage to implementation,” he says – and all this in a highly competitive environment, as Cristian Bernardi explains. “Thanks to its lightness combined with very great strength, titanium can be used to produce parts for Formula 1 racing cars, luxury cars, aircraft, helicopters, drones and space flight.” Typical production batches range from three to one hundred parts, he says, “but thanks to the use of automated cells, we’re now also ready for mass production.” And this is where EROWA comes in.