Company
Background
SINTERMETAL
SAIC is fully dedicated to the MANUFACTURING OF BUSHINGS
AND BEARINGS. The company is a succesor of an homonimous S.R.L.(Limited
Responsability Partnership) founded by Mr. Camilo Scheidl in 1951,
which started as a small plant of synthesized products in 4877 Alcaras
Street, Capital Federal.
This S.R.L. Company becomes a S.A. (Anonimous Partnership) Company
in May 1961 and it is registered in the Justice General Inspection
Registry under the number 13349.
Mr Gualterio Benini acquired the majority of Sintermetal shares
in 1972, when he becomes president of this company.
At present, head offices are placed in 4839 Zuviría Street
in a large area of 5.800 m² that had been acquired in 1961.
The building was later subjected to several expansions and modifications
under a development and enlarging strategy, which also introduced
german technology as well.
In 1976, the company joinned GLYCO METALL WERKE, DAELEN & LOOS
GMBH (Wiesbaden- Germany) following an industrial vocation projected
to the future.
The terms of the agreement between Sintermetal and this leader company
in the german bearings and bushings market show their appreciation
to the Benini Group.
Since 1973, Sintermetal S.A. has developed its
own matrices department, which has allowed the company to satisfy
different market requirements in relation to the replenishment of
the autoparts it produces. Mr. Claudio Benini- highly trainned in
the technical-indutrial field- received technical trainning and
assistance in german plants for more than a year and also in a plant
of Clevite for six months.
Within the development process of Sintermetal, it is worth mentioning
the Manufacturing Re-Equiping Plan, whose amount of investment on
machinery and equipments reached u$s 6.076.598,00 in 5 years.
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In
1990, a new production plant in Campana (Province of Buenos Aires)
was installed and opened becoming one of the most important events
in the development of the company. The building is 6.500 m²
large on an area of 200.000 m². At this plant, the state-of-the-art
equipement allows to reach a production volume of 30.000.000 peaces
per year.
Since this year, it was decided that the Zuviria Plant should undertake
the following activities within its range of manufacturing:
- Matrices
- Líne of special bearings.
- Líne of flange bearings.
- Líne of bearings - thrust washers
- Galvanoplasty
- Packaging and Dispatch.
On the other hand, the plant in Campana manufactures bearings in
high series of production, taking advantage of the automation processes.
Besides, Sintermetal
acquisition of Glyco shareholding prove the strength of this group,
which has gainned independence and freedom in the formulation of
business and corporative strategies.
In
view of the increasing foreign demand and in order to strenghten
the external market, Sintermetal participates in the most important
specialized fairs of the world, such as Automechanic (Germany),
Automec (Brazil), Equip Auto (France), Big I (U.S.A.), Automech
(Egypt), and also in other countries such as Colombia, Venezuela,
South Africa, Mexico, Italy and Spain.
Sintermetal
has another important element within his company and it is the Technical
Support Personnel, which is available for customers offering technical
talks and promotion plant tours.
Besides,
manufacturing agreements were signed in order to supply the important
brands of the autopartist market.
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