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AGRATI and Semblex form global alliance
The Italian multinational AGRATI Group, a major European fastener company for more than 70 years, and America’s Semblex Corporation, a fastener manufacturer and engineering resource located in Illinois, have formed a global alliance to provide fastener solutions and cold-formed special products for top OEM and component suppliers globally.
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he objective of the alliance is to combine two supplier teams in order to provide global customers with a single source for technical, quality, and logistics support. Local engineering support, local quality response and
local sales support, as well as ‘in- country’ inventory, material planning, and other logistics support for customer plants in all three regions are provided for customer plants in Europe, North America, and Asia. AGRATI emphasises that it shares with Semblex the same
values of excellence, quality and innovation, together with teamwork, on an international scale. The alliance allows selected customers to:
• Achieve synergy on design and application solutions between Europe and Asia (Agrati) and North America (Semblex).
• Compare technical specifications to European, Asian and American standards to ensure common global part design.
• Receive applications, part testing, and validation support in Europe, Asia (Agrati) and North America (Semblex).
• Have sample availability in Europe, Asia and North America.
• Make cost-reduction programmes coordinated in Europe, Asia and North America.
• Take advantage of a strong, synchronised supplier team supporting USA purchasing and engineering teams in Europe, Asia and North America.
• Optimise logistics and control shipping costs through the presence of in-country inventory, materials planning, and customer service regardless of where in the world the customer plant is located.
AGRATI Group AGRATI S.p.A was founded in Italy in 1939 by the Agrati family.
After 70 years AGRATI GROUP FASTENING SYSTEMS provides leading fastening technology all over the world with a main focus on automotive applications. In 2011 the Group achieved turnover of 350 million euros, and it has 1,700 employees in 11 plants around the world. Headquartered in Veduggio (North Italy),
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Agrati is one of the largest European suppliers of screws, bolts and nuts, with a complete product range covering complex and critical applications. AGRATI FRANCE is a leading supplier to the automotive
industry in France. AGRATI AFP-CVB specialises in advanced formed parts produced by the combination of complex cold forging technology and high precision mechanical operations. The new YAF production facility located in Yantai, Laishan
District, China, uses equipment that follows European standards to ensure the same levels of quality and technical excellence. Together with sales and technical offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Changsha and Changchun it aims to commercial, technical and quality support for automotive customers. AGRATI FSP is a service and logistic full service provider of
fasteners solutions, able to manage complex logistic realities, with personalised supply projects and a very wide range of products, kit and packaging.
Semblex Corporation Semblex Corporation, founded in 1968, has grown from
a manufacturer of standard, small diameter fasteners at a single facility, to an expansive organisation providing innovative fastening solutions and complex, cold-formed specialty components. Semblex now operates four plants at its Elmhurst campus with about 200 employees. Its team of highly-skilled engineers serve an array of world class customers with an exceptional level of technical support. Semblex places unique focus on providing cost effective,
innovative solutions to the customers. Its offering of technical products provides customers with one of the broadest arrays of fastening solutions available in the industry, and extensive engineering services enable Semblex to reduce cost, improve quality and increase process stability. This is accomplished through Value Analysis / Value Engineering (VA/VE) projects at all points of the process, from design concept through final production and assembly. Semblex is committed to customer satisfaction by producing parts of a consistent quality, while striving for continuous improvement. Semblex remains a privately held organisation which
continues to make significant investments in quality, technology, equipment, and creative minds. This investment in the future of Semblex provides it with the tools needed to meet and exceed its goal of total customer satisfaction.
Fastener + Fixing Magazine • Issue 73 January 2012
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