COMPANIES All indicators
COMPANIES All indicators are growing For Salvamac, which recently celebrated its birthday, it is time to make an assessment of a long and intense industrial history. A company that today seizes every opportunity, perhaps also looking for a new “social approach”... “After a record-breaking 2019 and a 2020 that ended with an extraordinary growth, we did not expect similar satisfactions in 2021.” This is how Christian Salvador comments, in the preliminary balance, the data of the multinational group of which he is co-owner, specialized in the production of woodworking machinery. “We carried on along the path we had set ourselves, – he continues – working to consolidate our presence in many markets and to experiment with new opportunities where we are less known. And the results were not lacking, allowing us to close an important threeyear period, during which we have accompanied the growth in turnover and the machines produced with a "fine-tuning" of the company organization. Because selling more requires producing more, giving more and more certainties in terms of service, the ability to guarantee continuity and quality in the relationship with customers and resellers. In Europe, the growth was made possible by the acquisition of new market shares, to which was added the consolidation of the presence in the United Kingdom, a market with important results in recent years and which this year – thanks also to the commitment to a deep-rooted "on-site" presence – has allowed Salvamac to have an edge.” Wood cutting with 3 s: solid, simple, safe The ethical message goes through the details. The Salvamac optimizing saws, such as the SalvaPush_2000, are in themselves an ethical Optimizing saw manufacturing Ziemowit Dolkowski, Christian Salvador product, because cutting wood with these machines means saving 5-15 percent of the raw material. It also makes work easier and safer for the operator; it is only necessary to load and unload or to mark the wood, it reduces the strain on the worker, who can be moved to more qualified tasks. Furthermore, the recent evolutions in the entry-level range of the semi-automatic cutting saws combined with the Salvastop_100 device have made it possible to achieve incredible results. “We have done our best to make our machines even easier and to make wood optimization an essential part of the process for result quality and affordability,” said Ziemowit Dolkowski, co-owner. “The software that is entirely "made in Salvamac" for Salvastop_100 will also allow us to offer strong developments in the future, constant implementations that favor the best integration of our saws with the upstream and downstream phases. Many producers build machines to which the customer must adapt: as per our philosophy, the customers can follow their own way of working and do not have to adapt to the machine.” Salvamac air&painting another step forward Thanks to Salvamac’s entry into a reality that has been on the market for over thirty years, always oriented towards high-quality products, Salvamac is continuously gaining positions on various markets, with an offer that – remaining faithful to the company philosophy – ranges from filters and dust-extraction to systems for painting booths, and which includes perfect solutions for companies of different sizes and needs. The SALVAMAC AIR&PAINTING division saw tremendous growth in 2021 with the move to a new, larger building of 2,500 m 2 on a total area of 5,000 m 2 . Marco Trasente, the head of the division continues: ”We have much more space to increase our production and our stock, but we are also investing in new technologies, such as in a new production system that includes a new, very powerful laser cutting machine and a folding line with fully automatic loading and unloading. In particular, the most recent projects and products confirm Salvamac’s success also in the extraction systems, especially the high-tech extractors of the "SuperDep" series. These special filters are designed and manufactured using the highest technologies. They are very versatile filter groups, which take up little space, suitable for indoor and outdoor use, extremely functional in extracting dust and wood chips.” www.salvamac.com 8 No. 4 • October 2021
COMPANIES “SCM Turkey” opening With the opening of the new SCM Turkey Subsidiary, the Italian Group further strengthens its presence in the East Mediterranean market with a highly specialised team of technicians and sales engineers. The objective is to provide Turkish woodworking businesses with even more direct, extensive and all-round assistance. SCM, global leading producer of secondary woodworking machinery, further strengthens its presence in the Turkish market with the opening of SCM Turkey (SCM Türkiye), located in the Istanbul area. The investment in this new Subsidiary, with 100 % Italian capital as of 2021, is aimed at providing direct, widespread sales and technical assistance to all the businesses in the industry, from the artisan right up to major industries, and at each stage of customer relations, from pre to after-sales. SCM has served the Turkısh market for many years, working with the most important distributor companies of the country, in order to supply a wide variety of products and services for all the woodworking application sectors: furniture industry, windows and doors production, timber construction and artisan businesses. www.scmgroup.com An extraordinary semester The development of the pandemic has certainly impacted all the economic trends, including the machines, tools and equipment for woodworking and peculiarities” that have been clearly identified in the analysis by the Studies Office of Acimall, the italian woodworking technology association, about the first half 2021. In the January-June 2021 period, the orders of wood-furniture machinery and tools increased by 100.3 % compared to the same semester of 2020. The demand from international markets - reaffirming the industry's traditional export vocation - recorded an 88.7 % increase, while the domestic market was even livelier, with orders up by 190.8 %. These results are quite significant, but we have to consider that they compare with the first half of 2020, i.e. the period when the Covid 19 pandemic had its strongest impact on the world's entire economic and production system. Nevertheless, this growth trend is significant, not just a simple "rebound" but a significant structural expansion. On a semester-on-semester basis, the first half 2021 showed a positive trend compared to the previous six months, from July to December 2020, with orders growing by 42.2 % (plus 31.9 % for international demand, plus 49.2 % in Italy). The furniture wood machinery industry and the furniture industry has overcome this very difficult season thanks to solid engineering, industrial, financial and business foundations to support the rally of recent months. This result has also been supported by the incentives of the new Italian plan 4.0 Transition, and similar measures introduced in many countries. The Italian industry keeps offering very advanced technology, as a result of its capacity to innovate and make business, which has always distinguished the players of "made in Italy". www.acimall.com
