MADE IN ITALY VIBO: the mark of quality
It ismore than fifty years since the first bolt headmarked VIBO was hot forged by Mr Bruno Bontempi. Today, Bontempi VIBO - still guided by the Bontempi family – vies for recognition as one of Italy’s top ranking cold forged bolt producers in both stainless and carbon steel.
north of Brescia, focused its cold forging capabilities for larger diameter and longer length products, so that by the late 1980s its capacity had extended to M27 x 220 bolts. In 2006, Bontempi VIBO acquired and began to develop a new,
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additional site at Rodengo Saiano, around 10 kilometres outside Brescia – the start of a major investment programme to bring the company to the highest levels of service and quality. The original factories continued in their specialist areas, with Calabritto primarily producing hexagon and socket head products in the range M5 to M12. By 2009 Bontempi VIBO had created an advanced
fully automated warehouse at Rodengo Saiano with a massive capacity for 15,000 pallet spaces. Early the following year this magazine witnessed first hand how the facility had rapidly been established as the heart of the group’s logistics system - introducing levels of accuracy and productivity previously beyond the imagination of the business. The whole system is barcode controlled and
fully integrated to Bontempi VIBO’s ERP system. Product from the two remote factories, already subjected to intensive final quality inspection, is received at Rodengo Saiano and is onto the inventory system, giving the sales department immediate visibility of its availability. Before and after picking each pallet drawn from the storage area is weigh-checked to ensure accuracy. Once the customer order is assembled it is conveyed to an automatic wrapping machine, to ensure transit security, before it is labelled and stored ready for despatch. For general manager, Raoul Bontempi, the
most important aspects of the new logistics centre were those that successively eliminated errors, and more importantly, their negative effect on the customer relationship. “The technology shift that this warehouse system represents, compared to how we used to handle our logistics, is simply huge,” he told us at the time. “It provides our customers with levels of accuracy and service, essential in today’s business environment.” Rodengo Saiano was always destined to be far more than a
crucial logistics operation. By the end of 2009 all of the main administrative and managerial departments had taken residence. In June 2010 the site became Bontempi VIBO’s third production facility, as the first cold forged bolt was produced by a 212 tonne M36 x 300 capacity cold former, specially mounted to insulate the rest of the building from its massive forging power. The cold former was the first symbol in an investment
58 Fastener + Fixing Magazine • Issue 76 July 2012 DIN 931, DIN 933 and DIN 912, M20 8.8, 10.9, 12.9, A2-70
and A4-70 self colour and bright blue zinc plated finishing from 210mm to 250mm (bringing the entire M20 range from 20mm to 250mm). The selection of thread rolling technology also carefully took into
account the necessity to minimise the risk of thread overlapping, a further increment to Bontempi VIBO’s quality commitment. The critical process in bolt and screw production is, of course,
heat treatment and here Bontempi VIBO has spared no expense in ensuring the highest quality of both process and output. The new continuous mesh, atmosphere controlled, furnace at Rodengo Saiano was sourced from a market leading Austrian supplier. As well as having a very high hourly capacity for hardening and tempering the plant includes a special system to protect against mixture of parts and it meets, as one would
ontempi VIBO moved from hot forging to high volume cold forging in the 1980s, establishing a modern factory in Calabritto, an hour from Napoli, to produce smaller diameter products. Meanwhile, the Berzo plant,
program that has continued at Rodengo Saiano ever since, resulting in the installation of cold headers and new threading rolling machines that have strongly extended the range and grades of bolts Bontempi VIBO can offer. Now customers can find in everyday stock: DIN 931, DIN 933 and DIN 912, M30 8.8, 10.9 and 12.9, self
colour and bright blue zinc plated finishing from 60mm to 300mm. DIN 931, DIN 933 and DIN 912 M36 8.8, 10.9 and 12.9, self colour finishing from 80mm to 300mm. DIN 931, DIN 933 and DIN 912, M16 8.8, 10.9, 12.9, A2-70
and A4-70 self colour and bright blue zinc plated finishing from 210mm to 250mm (bringing the entire M16 range from 20mm to 250mm).
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