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Founded more than 80
years ago as a small specialized company serving agricultural
tractor repairs, Berco has gradually become a manufacturer
of considerable size and leader in the field of production
of tracked vehicle components, equipment for overhauling the
undercarriages of earth moving machinery and manufacture of
machine tools for the reconditioning of internal combustion
engines.
The experience it has gained over decades of
activity, its constant search for new technological solutions
and the high quality of its products are the company's best
introduction.
In January 1989 Berco took over SIMMEL
factory in Castelfranco Veneto (Treviso)
and, in 1998, the forgings company FILS of Busano (Turin). With this acquisition, Berco is now the largest company in the sector worldwide with the biggest combined
forging capacity in the world.
Nowaday, Berco is part
of the ThyssenKrupp group and extends its responsibility over
Berco of America, Berco Deutschland, BercoSul and Berco UK. To know more
about them, follow the links above.
Some numbers
now:
The Copparo plant,the headquarter, stands on a
site of about five hundred thousand square meters and has
about 2400 employees; the Castelfranco factory site extends
over approximately 70,000 square meters and has a workforce of
about 500; the Busano factory is located on a site of 40,000 square meters
and has 130 employees.
Today, Berco operates in two
manufacturing sectors of key importance. A vast area is
dedicated to the design and construction of machine for the reconditioning of internal combustion
engines and
undercarriage repair.
But the company's main area of activity is the
design and production of components and systems for earth-moving and special
crawler-tracked machines.
UNDERCARRIAGE
DIVISION
This represents the main production
activity. Components are built for the undercarriages of
tracked vehicles manufactured by OEMs, and stocked by
authorized dealers throughout the world. Every year the plants
process over 250,000 tons of steel, producing 180,000
track chains, 1,300,000 rollers, 220,000 idlers, 160,000 sprockets and 6,000,000
track shoes.
MACHINE TOOLS DIVISION
This
division produces a wide range of machine tools and equipment
for vehicle repair industries and workshops: from small valve
seat remanufacturing devices to marine engine crankshaft
grinders and equipment overhauling and repairing of tracked
vehicle undercarriages as well.
These products are well
known throughout the world where, by a long tradition, the
Berco trademark is synonymous with reliability and
quality.
The ISO9000 Quality System Certificate
is
also there to prove it. |
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