Insight

After a challenging couple of years, BENERI SpA states that business has returned to pre Covid-19 normality – enabling the company to work in a more planned way, as well as creating more time to look ahead to future projects and opportunities.

Back in 2021/2022, post Covid-19, BENERI experienced unexpected and exponential growth, demand reached levels never seen before – with supply struggling to keep up. “Raw materials were in short supply and prices were very high,” explains BENERI. “Since then, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine led to an energy crisis in Europe for gas and electricity – with soaring costs. This created a very difficult period, but we are extremely satisfied because we worked hard to manage these
big challenges.”

BENERI continues: “When it comes to last year, we worked partly to satisfy the requests of the previous year, while in the second half of the year the market did witness a clear slowdown in demand, which we expected and in our opinion was ‘physiological’ rather than a true slowdown. However, after a slow start to 2024 it is turning out to be a year in-line with pre Covid-19 business and more importantly a sense of normality has returned to the market, which means we are able to look forward and develop new exciting products and projects. For instance, we have been expanding and consolidating our brand in northern Europe, Asia and the USA.”

Immense capabilities

With over 60 years of experience BENERI has developed the expertise, knowledge, production, and commitment to quality, that enables it to supply a wide range of retaining rings and washers to the global market. 

A family-owned company, BENERI has a wide production capacity, with parts designed and produced in five production units located in Valmadrera (LC), Italy. As a leading manufacturer of standard retaining rings and washers, both in metric and inch dimensions, the company is able to supply products that comply with DIN standards, as well as a variety of special solutions. 

“In the last decade, we have invested a lot in quality and have introduced several additional quality checks in each step of the production process to guarantee the highest quality levels for our products,” states BENERI. “We have also ensured we have a huge stock of our product range that can be delivered quickly to customers globally.”

Thanks to its know-how, and constant technical research and investments for the optimisation of the production processes, BENERI is able to develop new products, including a line of products with standard sizes but with very strict tolerances. “This range of products is created for end users, where the assembly of the rings is made automatically, so that robots can work without line stops,” points out BENERI. “In recent years we have also started several special projects, based on customers’ designs, for different industries including automotive, agriculture and white goods. 

An emphasis on employees and sustainability

A key focus for BENERI going forward will be how the company attracts new talent and employees to the business. “Never before has human capital been as important as it has in recent years, even with the increasingly pressing robotisation and automation of processes,” outlines BENERI. “That is why one of the most important investments we have made recently is improving the working conditions for our workers, as well as ensuring the highest safety in all of our production plants.”

The Italian manufacturer has also placed sustainability as a key topic for the future. “We believe that sustainability is important in several aspects. For this reason, we have decided to work on the production of our first sustainability report, which we will publish shortly and will show without filters the current situation of BENERI, as well as what our objectives are and what goals we will achieve,” points out the company. “This has been a voluntary choice for our business, we had no legislative obligations, but we think this attitude will distinguish our name from competitors worldwide.”

BENERI concludes: “Customers that work with us know they can count on us as a serious and reliable supplier. We have long-term business relationships with our customers and suppliers and we believe that the best way to do business is growing together with our partners.”