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Over the past decade Sariv has evolved from a sole producer of standard blind rivets to specialising in customised non standard parts, with the design and manufacture of custom parts now accounting for 80% of its turnover. The company is hoping to continue this trend and see custom parts account for 90% of its turnover in five years time.

With five distribution companies in eastern Europe – Czech Republic, Poland, Croatia, Slovakia and Russia – as well as through several distributors all around Europe, Sariv works with the most important brands in the market to provide customised solutions designed specifically for customers’ applications. 

Sariv Srl explains: “Through working closely with these distributors, we have developed the know-how and development skills to move from the production of standard blind rivets and nuts to a wider portfolio of bespoke fastener solutions, created from scratch. Our increased capability to design dedicated solutions has enabled us to create brand new solutions, such as the new mechanical sealing products for high pressure applications that will be introduced to the market in 2025.”

The company designs and manufactures both standard and customised blind rivets, blind rivet nuts, and cold formed parts, from its Italian premises – where most of the treatments are managed internally, giving full control and guaranteeing the high-quality of its products. Sariv has also been investing heavily in traceability and digitalisation processes to apply the philosophy of Industry 4.0 to its production processes. 

Sariv comments: “An automated company, in which all steps are digitised, has infinite production data available. This means all production systems can be optimised making processes more flexible and efficient, enabling the customer to obtain full traceability and ‘real time’ information on the status of processes and product availability, product engineering and customisation, production costs containment, reduction of consumption, as well as quality assurance.”

This quality assurance is important when supplying products to a variety of industries, where the trend for data has never been more prevalent, such as the automotive, construction, building, medical, household, electronics, machinery and shipbuilding sectors. Sariv comments: “Supplying into a variety of industries means we must manage certain trends and be able to adapt quickly to them and remain a strong, reliable partner. Recently the automotive industry has been weak but our ability and focus on designing custom solutions has meant we have been able to answer customers’ changing needs and requirements with our reliable, high-quality solutions.”

Also key when supplying these sectors are the added quality requirements, which Sariv has answered by achieving IATF 16949, ISO 4001 and ISO 45001 certifications through a number of new initiatives across its production. These include paperless digitisation – electronic archiving of documents drastically reduces the unnecessary consumption of paper; renewable energy – Sariv now uses the energy produced by a photovoltaic system installed above the roof of its factory to partly power its production processes; optimising the shipment of goods to help reduce the pollution caused by means of transport; as well as the use of an innovative washing system that eliminates water from degreasing. The company is also planning additional investments in terms of Industry 5.0 to further reduce its environmental impact and carbon footprint to increase material recycling and energy reduction.

As well as improving its environmental impact, Sariv is also focused on creating a desirable, safe and clean working environment for its workers. “Several investments have been made in the field of automation but this is to support our operators, rather than to make up for a lack of manpower,” explains the company. “We believe it is essential to move operators from alienating and low added value jobs to operations where they can bring value, such as working on continuous improvement of set-up operations; improving production and tooling efficiency and tooling lifetime; as well as managing data. Through these commitments, as well as our 30 years’ experience, Sariv is focusing on organic growth and looking ahead to possible collaborations with new products and thereby expanding into new markets.”