Ever wonder why Fedegari machines deliver the highest performances in the market? Have a look at this insight into the manufacturing process of Fedegari equipment...

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From raw material to integrated systems

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FEDEGARI AUTOCLAVI SpA
ALBUZZANO - PAVIA (PV) - ITALY
Tel. +39 0382 434111 - Fax +39 0382 434150

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FEDEGARI AUTOCLAVI SpA
ALBUZZANO - PAVIA (PV) - ITALY
Tel. +39 0382 434111 - Fax +39 0382 434150

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Giuseppe & Paolo Fedegari
What does growth mean for us?
It means becoming aware that we have begun a journey based on the will to understand
where we are and then to decide where we want to arrive.
At Fedegari, not only have we decided long ago where we want to arrive, but also how.
Without any commercial shortcut, we simply started from our experience.
Over 60 years of practical experience, spent constantly trying to understand in depth,
how things work. From raw material to components. Machines to processes. Mechanics
to electronics. Accessories to handling systems. Process controllers to robots.
For years we have manufactured process machines whose performances are unequalled
to this day. Now we are able to combine these machines into integrated systems for
which we guarantee overall performance. Systems that are always different but use
the same elements in order to ensure, with a holistic model, a reliability that cannot
be achieved by combining machines that merely share a logo but are manufactured
by different factories.
Every additional process or product is engineered in its finest detail; analyzed and
integrated into the same production logic.
This is what a true integrated system means for us: a set of elements that work in
perfect harmony because they follow a single model. Machines designed and built by
the same people, using the same components, the same knowledge and the same
logic. All managed by a single process controller.
We needed this experience first to make such a leap. Ripeness is all, as Shakespeare
said. No improvisation. Our goal is always the same: to be the best.
And while machines and processes become ever more complex, to make sure that
our clients know how to utilize to the fullest extent the capabilities of our systems,
we have organized technology support centers in various parts of the world. Our
aim is to be even closer to our clients, to share with them our experience in a
practical and realistic way: by getting one’s hands dirty on the machines.
Ultimately, this is the only effective way to learn; again no shortcuts.
Growing implies making mistakes; falling down and getting up again, reinventing
one-self and learning with relentless commitment.
Every day is a fight. Every project is a marvelous, invigorating challenge.
It takes boldness to grow, because our market tends to reject innovation due to
the risks that it entails.
We are not afraid to propose ambitious changes and we are ready to bet
our name to build the future. Not just a company name, but the name of our
family, because our parents taught us that if we make a commitment we
– personally – are the ones who must guarantee it. Always.

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Giuseppe & Paolo Fedegari
What does growth mean for us?
It means becoming aware that we have begun a journey based on the will to understand
where we are and then to decide where we want to arrive.
At Fedegari, not only have we decided long ago where we want to arrive, but also how.
Without any commercial shortcut, we simply started from our experience.
Over 60 years of practical experience, spent constantly trying to understand in depth,
how things work. From raw material to components. Machines to processes. Mechanics
to electronics. Accessories to handling systems. Process controllers to robots.
For years we have manufactured process machines whose performances are unequalled
to this day. Now we are able to combine these machines into integrated systems for
which we guarantee overall performance. Systems that are always different but use
the same elements in order to ensure, with a holistic model, a reliability that cannot
be achieved by combining machines that merely share a logo but are manufactured
by different factories.
Every additional process or product is engineered in its finest detail; analyzed and
integrated into the same production logic.
This is what a true integrated system means for us: a set of elements that work in
perfect harmony because they follow a single model. Machines designed and built by
the same people, using the same components, the same knowledge and the same
logic. All managed by a single process controller.
We needed this experience first to make such a leap. Ripeness is all, as Shakespeare
said. No improvisation. Our goal is always the same: to be the best.
And while machines and processes become ever more complex, to make sure that
our clients know how to utilize to the fullest extent the capabilities of our systems,
we have organized technology support centers in various parts of the world. Our
aim is to be even closer to our clients, to share with them our experience in a
practical and realistic way: by getting one’s hands dirty on the machines.
Ultimately, this is the only effective way to learn; again no shortcuts.
Growing implies making mistakes; falling down and getting up again, reinventing
one-self and learning with relentless commitment.
Every day is a fight. Every project is a marvelous, invigorating challenge.
It takes boldness to grow, because our market tends to reject innovation due to
the risks that it entails.
We are not afraid to propose ambitious changes and we are ready to bet
our name to build the future. Not just a company name, but the name of our
family, because our parents taught us that if we make a commitment we
– personally – are the ones who must guarantee it. Always.

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Why do we start from the raw material?

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Why do we start from the raw material?

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To be responsible for the entire manufacturing process and to control the technology.
This is the only way to blend experience and technology together in a constantly new
alchemy, ensuring a continuous evolution that always starts with field experience.

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To be responsible for the entire manufacturing process and to control the technology.
This is the only way to blend experience and technology together in a constantly new
alchemy, ensuring a continuous evolution that always starts with field experience.

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Manufacturing components in-house.

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Manufacturing components in-house.

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The only way, aside of propagandistic proclamations, that allows us to meet the application requirements.
Those who buy components will never fully understand their performances and will never create original
solutions; just passively accept their intrinsic limitations.

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The only way, aside of propagandistic proclamations, that allows us to meet the application requirements.
Those who buy components will never fully understand their performances and will never create original
solutions; just passively accept their intrinsic limitations.

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The only limit? Our knowledge and keenness to
experiment every single day. This is why our work is an
endless adventure.

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The only limit? Our knowledge and keenness to
experiment every single day. This is why our work is an
endless adventure.

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The tangible advantage? An efficiency not to be achieved otherwise.

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The tangible advantage? An efficiency not to be achieved otherwise.

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“You don’t own what you don’t understand.”
(Johann Wolfgang Goethe)

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“You don’t own what you don’t understand.”
(Johann Wolfgang Goethe)

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Man.
The central, irreplaceable element of our world.

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Man.
The central, irreplaceable element of our world.

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Observe things carefully.
Try to discover where the secret lies.
At Fedegari, steel is shaped by the hands of man, who uses sophisticated technology
to transform it into very high performance process machines.

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Observe things carefully.
Try to discover where the secret lies.
At Fedegari, steel is shaped by the hands of man, who uses sophisticated technology
to transform it into very high performance process machines.

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The workshop.
The place where values materialize. Where shapeless raw material,
one step at a time, takes the form of many components, those of
which progressively become a complex mechanism with a life of its
own. Every machine is one of a kind. A little industrial masterpiece.

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The workshop.
The place where values materialize. Where shapeless raw material,
one step at a time, takes the form of many components, those of
which progressively become a complex mechanism with a life of its
own. Every machine is one of a kind. A little industrial masterpiece.

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“There is no substitute for hard work.”
(Thomas A. Edison)

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“There is no substitute for hard work.”
(Thomas A. Edison)

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Our passion for challenge is the greatest teaching that we
inherited from the founders.
We were taught that we can always do more; we can
always get closer to perfection. The history of our family has
demonstrated that it is necessary to experiment, to create
and recreate in order to improve and innovate constantly.
“Having talent means understanding
that you can always do better.”
(Antoine Albalat)

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Our passion for challenge is the greatest teaching that we
inherited from the founders.
We were taught that we can always do more; we can
always get closer to perfection. The history of our family has
demonstrated that it is necessary to experiment, to create
and recreate in order to improve and innovate constantly.
“Having talent means understanding
that you can always do better.”
(Antoine Albalat)

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Components take shape.

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Components take shape.

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A tradition since ever.
We are crafters in our genes; our goal, today as always, is to ensure maximum performance. Far
from being a slogan, this is a business model. It is the only possible way to understand every element
that controls the process. Understanding these mechanisms is the essential foundation on which
knowledge develops. Without this experience, there are only platitudes to charm those who think they
have nothing to learn. The tangible benefits are many and the market has confirmed this to us. Without
extraordinary commitment, no challenge can be won.
This is the challenge of our life. A challenge to face every day…with passion.

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A tradition since ever.
We are crafters in our genes; our goal, today as always, is to ensure maximum performance. Far
from being a slogan, this is a business model. It is the only possible way to understand every element
that controls the process. Understanding these mechanisms is the essential foundation on which
knowledge develops. Without this experience, there are only platitudes to charm those who think they
have nothing to learn. The tangible benefits are many and the market has confirmed this to us. Without
extraordinary commitment, no challenge can be won.
This is the challenge of our life. A challenge to face every day…with passion.

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A passion that permeates every department of our company.

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A passion that permeates every department of our company.

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Nothing is left to chance.
Overall performance is the sum of the performances of all elements.
Everything that we don’t understand hinders us in winning our challenge.
Experimentation all the time, because research, like human curiosity, can
never be stopped.

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Nothing is left to chance.
Overall performance is the sum of the performances of all elements.
Everything that we don’t understand hinders us in winning our challenge.
Experimentation all the time, because research, like human curiosity, can
never be stopped.

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Discovery then generates new energy.
An industrial product is not a luxury good: it is a tool
intended to allow its user to grow.
As such, it must guarantee low overall operating costs
without which the manufacturer has no future.

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Discovery then generates new energy.
An industrial product is not a luxury good: it is a tool
intended to allow its user to grow.
As such, it must guarantee low overall operating costs
without which the manufacturer has no future.

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The value of experience.
The company brings with it all the value of the past, of the work done by its founders and by the people
who have run it up to now; all strongly convinced that time and patience are indispensable, just like with
fine winemaking.
In Fedegari, there is a strong internal awareness of creating reliable and durable products in which setup
and testing too, require a period of time that is proportionate to the importance of the goal being sought.

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The value of experience.
The company brings with it all the value of the past, of the work done by its founders and by the people
who have run it up to now; all strongly convinced that time and patience are indispensable, just like with
fine winemaking.
In Fedegari, there is a strong internal awareness of creating reliable and durable products in which setup
and testing too, require a period of time that is proportionate to the importance of the goal being sought.

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The challenge of keeping skills and competence up to date with every new project.
The experience accumulated in managing pharmaceutical production processes for the world’s most demanding companies has
developed priceless, powerful in-house know-how. A foundation on which we build, every day, our convictions and intuitions to build our future.
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The challenge of keeping skills and competence up to date with every new project.
The experience accumulated in managing pharmaceutical production processes for the world’s most demanding companies has
developed priceless, powerful in-house know-how. A foundation on which we build, every day, our convictions and intuitions to build our future.
Sterilization Depyrogenation Decontamination Cleaning Isolators

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“Answers are always limited, temporary, and unsatisfactory.
Questions, instead, are the true driver of the mind’s
activity: a person who asks no questions or feels satisfied
with the answers will not reach very far.”
(Piero Angela)

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“Answers are always limited, temporary, and unsatisfactory.
Questions, instead, are the true driver of the mind’s
activity: a person who asks no questions or feels satisfied
with the answers will not reach very far.”
(Piero Angela)

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The difference of our approach and the typical values of an Italian family-run business,
characterize every one of our products and make it unique. In Italy there is something that doesn’t
exist anywhere else; something inspired by craftsmanship and genius and always different. The
best way to be Italian is to live every day in the adventure of being different; of being unique.

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The difference of our approach and the typical values of an Italian family-run business,
characterize every one of our products and make it unique. In Italy there is something that doesn’t
exist anywhere else; something inspired by craftsmanship and genius and always different. The
best way to be Italian is to live every day in the adventure of being different; of being unique.

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Made in Italy, with passion.
While many Western entrepreneurs have relocated their production to countries where labor
costs are lower, Fedegari still manufactures in Italy, with pride.
A company like this could only be born here. At its core, Fedegari, more than an industrial
company, is a large workshop of craftsmen, because building sophisticated machines and all their
components requires making everyday choices that are beyond the scope of the entrepreneurial
rationality that currently prevails in a capitalistic society.
It requires investing in personnel training more than may appear economically convenient. We
introduce young people with high potential and allow them to gain experience, for years. Then,
slowly, this investment begins to bear fruit, giving rise to tightly bonded teams. This is why we could
never relocate our manufacturing merely to achieve savings.

51. 4948
Made in Italy, with passion.
While many Western entrepreneurs have relocated their production to countries where labor
costs are lower, Fedegari still manufactures in Italy, with pride.
A company like this could only be born here. At its core, Fedegari, more than an industrial
company, is a large workshop of craftsmen, because building sophisticated machines and all their
components requires making everyday choices that are beyond the scope of the entrepreneurial
rationality that currently prevails in a capitalistic society.
It requires investing in personnel training more than may appear economically convenient. We
introduce young people with high potential and allow them to gain experience, for years. Then,
slowly, this investment begins to bear fruit, giving rise to tightly bonded teams. This is why we could
never relocate our manufacturing merely to achieve savings.

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“Quality is never an accident; it is always
the result of high intention, sincere effort,
intelligent direction and skillful execution;
it represents the wise choice of many
alternatives.”
(William A. Foster)

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“Quality is never an accident; it is always
the result of high intention, sincere effort,
intelligent direction and skillful execution;
it represents the wise choice of many
alternatives.”
(William A. Foster)

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“Raise your quality standards as high as you
can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine
problems, and always try to work as closely as
possible at the boundary of your abilities. Do this,
because it is the only way of discovering how that
boundary should be moved forward.”
(Edsger W. Dijkstra)

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“Raise your quality standards as high as you
can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine
problems, and always try to work as closely as
possible at the boundary of your abilities. Do this,
because it is the only way of discovering how that
boundary should be moved forward.”
(Edsger W. Dijkstra)

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Our goal? To understand the true needs of our customers
beyond the form of communication. Once we have understood
this, creativity is unleashed and no longer held back by the fear of
being different and unique.

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Our goal? To understand the true needs of our customers
beyond the form of communication. Once we have understood
this, creativity is unleashed and no longer held back by the fear of
being different and unique.

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Dealing with many challenges through the years and overcoming
them has given us the confidence to take on new, increasingly
ambitious ones with a team of unique men and women.

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Dealing with many challenges through the years and overcoming
them has given us the confidence to take on new, increasingly
ambitious ones with a team of unique men and women.

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Integrated systems in which the operator only acts as a supervisor,
in order to produce at more competitive costs.

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Integrated systems in which the operator only acts as a supervisor,
in order to produce at more competitive costs.

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Integrated systems:
the challenge of the future, today.

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Integrated systems:
the challenge of the future, today.

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Machine performance can no longer be
sufficient as a future challenge in a market,
which, due to a growing lack of practical
experience, tends to consider these
machines as a commodity. To ensure overall
performance, we must integrate different
machines into a single rational and reliable
system that reduces overall operating costs.

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Machine performance can no longer be
sufficient as a future challenge in a market,
which, due to a growing lack of practical
experience, tends to consider these
machines as a commodity. To ensure overall
performance, we must integrate different
machines into a single rational and reliable
system that reduces overall operating costs.

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The growing complexity of machines and processes is a challenge for the user as well. After-
sales services, therefore, are becoming increasingly indispensable to assure productivity. Directly
from the headquarters, to branch offices or to a wide network of maintenance centers of our
system integrators, we can offer a support system that goes far beyond setup and maintenance.
A growing percentage of our services have a high added value and is aimed at supporting
validation, customization of processes and maintenance plans, and personnel training.
To be ever closer to our customers, we are opening local offices with specialized staff and spare
parts warehouses.

67. 6564
The growing complexity of machines and processes is a challenge for the user as well. After-
sales services, therefore, are becoming increasingly indispensable to assure productivity. Directly
from the headquarters, to branch offices or to a wide network of maintenance centers of our
system integrators, we can offer a support system that goes far beyond setup and maintenance.
A growing percentage of our services have a high added value and is aimed at supporting
validation, customization of processes and maintenance plans, and personnel training.
To be ever closer to our customers, we are opening local offices with specialized staff and spare
parts warehouses.

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All the systems and machines are managed by the same process controller: Thema4. We designed
it and we continue to develop it in-house. Approximately 15 years after its introduction, we have
accumulated the equivalent of over one man-century of work
…and it is still unrivaled in terms of performance, safety and reliability.

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All the systems and machines are managed by the same process controller: Thema4. We designed
it and we continue to develop it in-house. Approximately 15 years after its introduction, we have
accumulated the equivalent of over one man-century of work
…and it is still unrivaled in terms of performance, safety and reliability.

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Engineering, where our creations are born.
Innovating entails bringing to market new products that break the rules.

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Engineering, where our creations are born.
Innovating entails bringing to market new products that break the rules.

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the name of our family.

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Our growth strategy demands an increasingly close relationship with our customers. This
is why we have established technology centers in various parts of the globe, to teach our
customers how to use their machines to the full extent of their capabilities. Our machines
and our process controllers are installed at these centers in order to simulate, together with
skilled technicians, the operating conditions that would otherwise require stopping production.
A new training division travels among the centers to share our knowledge with all those who
wish to learn for growing.
Technology Center
Sellersville, PA
USA

75. 7372
Our growth strategy demands an increasingly close relationship with our customers. This
is why we have established technology centers in various parts of the globe, to teach our
customers how to use their machines to the full extent of their capabilities. Our machines
and our process controllers are installed at these centers in order to simulate, together with
skilled technicians, the operating conditions that would otherwise require stopping production.
A new training division travels among the centers to share our knowledge with all those who
wish to learn for growing.
Technology Center
Sellersville, PA
USA

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At our headquarters, the Research &
Development division cooperates with all
customers who need to find solutions to their
production problems.
We are able to replicate all the processes of
our machines and we can also test critical
sensors and components.
Here, together with our customers,
we test the future.

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At our headquarters, the Research &
Development division cooperates with all
customers who need to find solutions to their
production problems.
We are able to replicate all the processes of
our machines and we can also test critical
sensors and components.
Here, together with our customers,
we test the future.

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“People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember
perfectly how well you did it.” (Howard Newton)
What sets a job done well aside? The commitment invested and constantly asking ourselves, what
we would want from the supplier if we were the customer.
When discussing industrial goods, the answer is less obvious than one may think. In any case, we
all would like maximum commitment and this, leaving words aside, must come from all the men and
women in our company. This is the reason why the family, too, has an operational role, to ensure
everyone’s commitment, every day.

79. 7776
“People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember
perfectly how well you did it.” (Howard Newton)
What sets a job done well aside? The commitment invested and constantly asking ourselves, what
we would want from the supplier if we were the customer.
When discussing industrial goods, the answer is less obvious than one may think. In any case, we
all would like maximum commitment and this, leaving words aside, must come from all the men and
women in our company. This is the reason why the family, too, has an operational role, to ensure
everyone’s commitment, every day.

80. 7978
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
(Alan Kay)

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“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
(Alan Kay)

82. Fotographs
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