Barbieri & Tarozzi builds new industrial complex

Apr 13, 2004

13/04/04 - The Barbieri & Tarozzi Group has created new industrial complex.
At a cost of more than 3 million euro and involving 9 months of work, the complex occupies a 15,000 square metre area a short distance from the Group’s existing headquarters in Formigine. It accommodates 3 large buildings and already accounts for a large part of the productive and logistic activities.

One building, which has been fully operative since March, is devoted to the production of sorting and handling lines, an operation previously performed at the Fiorano factory.

The second large building is used for storage and delivery of goods and is equipped with 10 automatic vertical warehouses and a large shelved warehouse for pallets.

The third building is the Technological Centre, a complex opened in October 2001 and entirely devoted to research and development of new ceramic products, complete with scientific and instrument laboratories and above all a pilot line for industrial trials. The new Industrial Complex is due to open in the early summer.

The Barbieri & Tarozzi Group’s objective is to completely rationalise its logistic organisation. This is facilitated by the proximity to the headquarters, which continues to house the administrative offices along with the facilities for production and shipment of dryers, kilns and mills. The production of presses, now a strategic part of the Group’s activity, continues to be carried out at the factory in Gaggiano (province of Milan).

Barbieri & Tarozzi, now one of the world’s leading suppliers of complete plants for the ceramic industry, closed fiscal 2003 with a turnover of 110 million euro (80% of which was generated by exports), 10% up on 2002. The Group has a total workforce of 400 people and has 6 foreign branches (in Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Mexico, China and Turkey) as well as sales companies in Thailand, India, Indonesia, Iran and Russia.
It also owns SIR of Modena, which specialises in robotised systems, and Omec of Formigine, which produces rollers for storage boxes.