Ferrari G.B.W.
was established in 1927 by Brunone Ferrari who, together with another
partner, started a carpentry and car repairer business in Carpi.
1940: The company's headquarters are moved from Carpi to Reggio Emilia,
and the company continued its business of tractor bodies building; in
these same days the company started producing "gas generators", devices
that were installed on cars to power them with natural gas in absence
of the usual fuels.
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1946: in these
days the company started producing and marketing a product of its own:
a tractor for agricultural use, built using "salvaged components" that
is using the mechanical parts scrapped from American military vehicles
that Allied troops left in Italy after World War II.
In these years the company also produced parts for car repairers, like
the renowned hammers used by the Scaglietti car repairer in Modena and
the pipe bending machines later patented by the company.
1953: Ferrari G.B.W. has 10
employees. In this year it also purchased its first machine tool, a
boring machine, for 3 million lire; this purchase was necessary because
the company decided to build tractors using its own parts instead of
salvaged parts.
In this year the company began to carry out works for third
parties in order to amortize and saturate the new machine tool as
fast as possible.
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1960: The company's
growth in the last few years increased the number of employees to 15
and the company started producing a new caterpillar model.
1964: Gianni Ferrari, the current company's General Manager, joined the
company soon after graduating from high school and he brought with him
a wave of change that soon would lead the company to stop producing
tractors to start third party manufacturing and then to enlarge its
customer base from the Reggio Emilia province to all of Northern Italy.
1968:
William, the youngest son of Brunone Ferrari, joined the company (he
now is the company's Engineering Manager); those years brought great
changes: the company moved its headquarters to the current location in
the Pieve Modolena industrial district in Reggio Emilia, the technology
level of the company's tools increased dramatically; a major change in
the history of Ferrari G.B.W. was ahead.
1974: The company purchased its first CNC machine tool, a Mandelli
”Positiv”. The company's customer base increased in number
and the company gained successes in the automatic machines parts
processing sector.
1980: This year witnessed the sad departure of the company's founder
Brunone Bruno Ferrari, who left the company in the hands of his clever
sons.
1982: The "testing" department was established inside the company
following the purchase of a three-dimensional measurement machine, a
DEA Jota 1203; at the same time, the service level increased and the
company gradually adopted a new philosophy, based on paying attention
to customers' needs and using leading edge technology, a philosophy
that today represents the driving force behind Ferrari G.B.W.'s profits.
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1983-1993: Ferrari G.B.W.
reached 20 employees, the company's machine tools increased in number
thanks to the purchase of the second CNC machine, the target market
extended beyond the local area and the company further specialised in
the transmission components sector (for tractors, earth-moving
machines, automotive sector and so on).
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This
sector is still a key sector for the company's products. In these years
the company grew rapidly, the number of machine tools rapidly reached 8
units, and within the company the staff developed skills and tasks that
would let them increase their market share within the sector.
In 1988 the company started using its first CAD-CAM system, the
introduction of this system marked a turning point in the machine tools
programming techniques.
1994-2004: In 1994 the company, well aware of the need to advance its
technology, began a machinery renewal process; in this year the company
purchased the first FMS cell consisting of two MCM Action type CNC
machines with mirror configuration, that is capable of sharing tool
rooms and machining works; at the same time the services departments
received a strong drive due to the new company working method, focussed
on flexibility and exploiting the new machine at its best.
The impact on the company was therefore very strong both from the operational/production point of view and the financial one.
In the years that followed Ferrari G.B.W.'s production doubled also thanks to this investment.
In this time the company doubled its indoor surface by building a new section in the warehouse.
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Ever since 1997 Ferrari G.B.W. is ISO 9002 certified and in that same year a new
FMS cell (the second one) was delivered. This cell included two MCM
Clock type machine tools in mirror configuration, that makes it
possible to work on smaller details in favour of a remarkable increase
of work performances; the testing department grew as well, thanks to a
sheer increase of production volume following the introduction of a Dea
Ghibli three-dimensional CNC measurement machine with countless
application fields and an accuracy in the range of millimetre
thousandths.
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The
management's driving idea became clear to all when, reacting to the
Italian metalworking sector crisis in 2001-2002 the company decided to
invest further in its production potential and in about one year it
introduced two MCM Tank type twin machine tools that allowed the
company to suffer only marginal damages from the crisis,
and more than that to react quickly to the first signs of market
recovery offering a distinguished service as far as quality and
quickness of response were concerned.
Today Ferrari GBW is a leading edge company,
leader of its market sector, with about
30 employees: 8 of them work with the services, 20 work in the
production sectors and two of them the company owners who are also
"working partners".
The company is ISO 9002 certified since 1997 and from 2 years it is also certified according to
ISO 9001– Vision 2000 regulations.
The most advanced technologies available are used today together with
leading-edge working tools like CAD 3D, magnetic chips for tool data
reading and transportation and thermal shrinking systems.
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