PARTNERSHIPS IN SUPPLY Being able to combine its family dimension, experience, special location, skilled staff, added-value service and a comprehensive catalogue of quality products is what has allowed Stima to stand out from its competitors, as Barbara Rossi finds out from Federico Mazzanti, the commercial director of the company.
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tima was established as a distributor of industrial automation products in the Bologna area, in 1965, by my grandparents, Elves Valbonesi and Aureliano Cariani. My grandmother Elves Valbonesi has just retired from the company at the age of 83. Today, we operate from a 4000m2 site located at the Bologna, Modena and Ferrara crossroads (in the north-eastern Italian EmiliaRomagna region). We are still a family company with pneumatic products as our core business.
The company philosophy is that of combining family values and a rate of growth keeping pace with an evolving market. Furthermore, we are based in a very special area, as we are in the middle of what is called the packaging valley. The Bologna area is the centre of pneumatic technology at European level, so we have reaped the advantages of this location, which has offered us the opportunity to grow in a significant way both in terms of product suppliers and clients,” Mr Mazzanti explains.
Stima distributes products of several manufacturers, so as to be able to offer a 100 per cent complete range in the pneumatic field, unmatched in the sector. 90 per cent of the products listed in the catalogue are available for prompt deliveries, thanks to the warehouse facilities of the company. One of Stima’s speciailties is having a large stock of compressed air tanks, allowing it to deliver these products, in just one day.
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