Nickel Alloys Foundry

HISTORY AND COMPANY PROFILE

Fondinox S.p.A. is a completely privately owned Company that has been managed and in the same ownership since it was formed in 1966. Initially the Company specialized in the production of forging ingots in austenitic and ferritic stainless steels.

Through the installation in 1972 of the first two medium frequency induction furnaces, Fondinox decided to specialize in foundry activity, and production of cast nickel base alloys was initiated. In the early Eighties, the Company began to supply cast valves for offshore and oil & gas markets, and has been one of the first European foundries to reach relative qualifications. Metallurgy has been widened on duplex, superduplex and superaustenitic range of alloys, also through exclusive production licence agreements with the Swedish Companies Avesta Jernverk AB and Sandvik Steels AB. Sand castings production has been coupled with the production of centrifugal castings, with extension of reference markets.

1966

Fondinox S.p.A. was founded by the same ownership as today, for the production of ingots for the forging industry. Company was extended on a 4.000 sqm area.

1972

Company decided to focus in sand foundry activity. Production of cast nickel base alloys was initiated.

1981

Starting of horizontal centrifugally cast pipes production.

1983

Beginning of specialization in castings supply for offshore and oil & gas applications. First exclusive production licence agreements with Swedish Companies Avesta Jernwerk ans Sandvik Steels.

1993

A new vertical centrifugation department was opened, for the production of special alloys heavy wall thicknessed centrifugal items, like rings and balls, through vertical centricast technology.

1996

Company Quality System achieved ISO 9002 approval, TUV Bavaria accreditation ADW0 for pressure containing stainless steels item production and foundry was recognized by Lloyd’s Register as a qualified stainless steel producer.

1998

The machining company Officine Meccaniche Benassi was purchased by Fondinox S.p.A., becoming indipendent for the machining of long tubolar products.

2003

Company quality system reached ISO 9000 Vision 2000 qualification, through Lloyd’s Register accreditation.

2004

The brand new machining Company GM Inox S.r.l. has been established in Gavirate (VA, Italy) (3000 sqm machining area).

2008

Significant investment plan was approved for the renewal and extension of a melting shop, patterns store, moulding shop and heat treatment department.

2013

Investment plan was approved for the construction of a brand new technological laboratory and machining shop in Sergnano premises.

2015

A new covered area of 1200 sqm has been built together with the new technological laboratory, which extends over an area of 250 sqm.

2019

Approval of a three-year investment plan worth a total of 6 million euros for the expansion of 15000sqm of the industrial area, installation of new melting and refining units, new ERP software, new analysis tools.

2020

Installation and commissioning of a new Dual Track melting plant with two 400kg and 800kg crucibles to increase the flexibility and production capacity of static and centrifugal castings

MISSION STATEMENT

Our Mission is to act as a leader supplier of Quality castings through:

research of a continuous and high Customer Satisfaction
continuous improvement of our production processes, enhancing the technological level and the technical content of our products and aiming to the optimization of our results in terms of quality performances
increase of research activity on brand new alloys and continuous research and optimization of properties of traditionally produced alloys
technical support to our customers, who could identify us not only as a supplier but first of all as a reliable and highly qualified partner.

SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENT

Since its foundation, Fondinox S.p.A. has respected the environment; for that reason our staff are working to continuously maintain and implement environmental standards established by A.I.A. (I.P.P.C.) and organizes training and courses about Work Health and Safety.

Use inside the foundry of ecological and low emissions binders, together with pollution suction systems and filters ensure the best protection to the environment and the workforce.

In order to guarantee the highest safety level and avoid contaminations, radiometric checks on incoming and outcoming material are performed.

The Company has voluntarily elected an internal Energy Manager for energy efficiency, with the aim of reducing energy waste and improve the efficiency of plants and processes.