Shaping Stainless Steel
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or five decades, Inoxforma has been perfecting its core business: giving shape to stainless steel. As a former toolmaker, the company has extensive experience in sheet metal processing. Its focus has always been on providing the customer with top quality and a competitive edge, something the company is proud to have taken to the next level. “We do not have mere supplier-customer relationships, we are true partners to our customers participating in the design, offering them new solutions, simply helping them to make their wishes regarding their products come true,” confirms Elvira Garcia, the company’s managing director. Inoxforma, employing over 100 people, pursues three separate business lines – production of food processing equipment, electric and electronic equipment (such as electrical cabinets) and pumps and balls for valves. Each used to account for about a third of the 130 Industry Europe
Inoxforma, based in northern Spain, reflects its name into its core business – transforming stainless steel into shapes as required by customers. Over the 50 years of its existence, the company has grown from a small toolmaker into a dynamic, international business offering tailor-made products to global markets. Despite low cost competitors, the company’s growing position has proven that it is the solid experience, know-how, top quality and customer focus that are the desired attributes in today’s marketplace. Romana Moares reports.
turnover but in the last few years the production of balls has become the dominant business line, now representing about 45 per cent Inoxforma’s turnover. The company exports 80 per cent of its turnover. The key market remains Europe but Inoxforma’s products are also sold to Russia, Turkey, the Middle East and – something the company is proud of – to China.
Exceeding customers’ requirements The managing director explains that production of balls for valves is the most important line as it represents the company’s own product. “Our know-how enables us to make balls out of sheet metal as opposed to casting, the traditional method. This has many advantages, such as stable materials, double hardness and lighter weight,”
