Marposs is the leader supplier of precision instruments for dimensional and geometrical measurement of mechanical parts.
The company is responsible for:
· System of control and compensation for tool machines;
· Manual and automatic measuring system for processing and assembly lines;
· Hardware and software statistical data collection and process analysis;
· Non destructive test and leak test.
The headquarter and the main plant is located in Italiy, Bentivoglio (BO)
History
The company was founded in Bologna in the 1952 by Ing. Mario Possati (1922-1990).
The company was born on the idea of producing and selling an innovative electronic device for the measuring of work pieces during the grinding process.
On one hand the electronics allowed much higher performance compared to the existing products, on the other hand it was a very young technology never used in workshop environment.
It took several years of studies and tests to ensure the overall reliability requested by the market, but once achieved this goal the product established a gradually increasing success.
In the early sixties, along with the commercial presence consolidation, Marposs had acquired a structural strength that allowed to look with confidence to the future developments.
In those years Italy was, as nowadays, a major machine tools exporter, this gave the obligation to ensure technical support and after sales service in the typical outlet courtiers of the Italian machine tool.
This led to the birth of the first subsidiaries of the group in Switzerland (1961), Germany (1962) and United States (1963). In 1970, after 18 years of activity, Marposs corporation opened a new subsidiary in Japan: this choice was the beginning of the penetration into the Asian market.
Still today Germany, Japan and the United States, along with China, are the most important Marposs markets.
Marposs today is present with its company for sales and technical assistance in 23 countries with 79 offices; in the other countries there are 9 dedicated networks of agents and distributors.
From 2000 Marposs has begun a program of acquisition of solid and well laid out companies, each of them capable of providing the highest quality product in their field.
Overall the Marposs group is now able to offer a full range of products and systems for quality control in the production environment.
The group today has over 2500 direct employees. About 1040 working at headquarters and in other Italian locations, 550 in the rest of Europe, 250 in America and 660 in Asia.
Market
About 94% of the production of the Group is for export, mostly, but not only, to countries with a solid technological tradition.
Main customers are:
· Machine tool manufacturers;
· Automotive industries and their subcontractors (to measure components of engine, transmission, injection, car body, glass);
· Aerospace industry;
· Bearings, glass, electrical motors;
· Industry for durables goods (refrigerators and air conditioning units);
· Pharmaceutical and medical industry.
Mission
Marposs pays great attention to customer satisfaction, using relevant economic and human resources in order to offer innovative products of the highest quality.
Marposs invests around 10% of its turnover in research and development and participates with various partners in international research programs.
The use of new technologies and on-going product development are fundamental to enable Marposs to maintain its technological leadership in its operative sectors.
The Marposs mission is to provide quality control systems to use in the workshop, during working operations of the components and during assembly and final testing of the same.
Following the line drawn by the founder, Marposs applies the following principles:
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be everywhere the customer works to give the best support at the moment of sales and after sales
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produce the most suitable solutions and continuously invest in research and development
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fight for improving the customer's satisfaction, as a measure of the quality of the work done.
Such principles were at the basis of the past success and the company will be growing and flourishing in the future thanks to them.
