Il Sole 24 Ore interviews Metal’s for the special “E20- Special

Editing dd 3/12/07 on dossier SPECIAL EVENTS – Mechanics and Robotics Automation.

Metal’s office and productive departments have been operatine in Padua for about twenty years. The company, boasting both national and international fame, has got about 130 operators and a productive area of about 25.000 mq and has been a leader in projecting and producing stainless steel components and partly-finished parts. This successful enterprise is the result of very clear ideas, perseverance, care and hard work that have enabled a growing yearly rate going above 20%. Metal’s core business is stainless steel processing, starting from a project worked out and studied together with the customer.. The aim is offering customers appropriate assistance and consultino (before starting production) in order to satisfy their needs and solve any kind of problems. Metal’s service is its added value and is the reason why many companies choose it as their supplier. On mentioning Metal’s target one refers to “industry” because it’s the easiest way to include professional food service, high quality electro-medical service, and beverage. The company produces high quality stainless steel components of refined aesthetics. The company aims at service: continuous searching in materials and finishing, projectual development and technological investment in equipment and automated machines.The machine pool keeps particular attention to the highest technologies that modify the form stainless steel through automated processes with sophisticated machines and advanced robotics, making Metal’s fame grow to the eyes of all those who visit its website.Another special strong point is human resources. The competence of all the collaborators that work in the several company’s branches is what determines its growth and the quality of its products. By the insertion of managerial figures in the most important phases of the company’s processes can one see the company’s continual evolution and growth, its aiming at improving, intended not only as an aim but also as a means to improve itself: a new arrival point.But it is also a company that proves to be a partner for its customers thanks to its technical department, made of highly skilled people, able to realize the customers’ drawings, to collaborate with the cutomer from an engineering point of view, in order to improve cooperation between customer and supplier and obtain the highest results and mutual improvement.      Metal’s is thus composed by people chosen to have important roles for the economical and productive development, and being able to understand the market needs through its continuous scouting and updating.It is in this optics that Metal’s has started all procedures to have ISO 14001 certification for next year after the UNI EN ISO 9001:2001 already achieved in 1996.The company has also made a partnership agreement with Imagro thus forming Imagro Metal’s  Srl, exporting stainless steel components and raw material overseas. This new company aims at providing stainless steel assembled components for home appliances and other sectors. It is through stainless steel processing that Metal’s can cope with the needs especially of the American market. Another productive reality is Bioinox: stainless steel accessories productione and business for high quality yachts on the international market. Taking advantage of Metal’s productive and technological power has entered the market of nautical accessories and equipment successfully.Metal’s is therefore a group of companies that has been able to enter three different markets and satisfy their needs with proper skills, thanks to the cooperation of its human resources and to the added value of the three specific business realities.