Manufacturing Technology

With the aim to celebrate business collaboration, success and shared goals, Carlo Salvi has launched ‘Carlo Salvi Stories’ – a series of articles told from the customer’s perspective. Here, in the first from its series, Carlo Salvi focuses on how it helped CELO Group improve its production processes and face the growing complex requirements of its customers.

The current collaboration between Carlo Salvi and CELO is the result of a story of mutual esteem and appreciation. To date, CELO has installed 15 new high-tech Carlo Salvi headers in its factory in Barcelona, Spain.

Founded in 1963 by Mr Ceravalls and Mr Lopez, CELO is specialised in the development and manufacturing of parts for automotive and for electrical fields. “We met at the 2018 wire^® Düsseldorf show, which led to us trialling some machines in our factory in Garlate, Italy, focusing on a representation of CELO’s production range,” comments Marco Pizzi, chief commercial officer at Carlo Salvi. ”This enabled us to prove we were the right partner for CELO to upgrade and modernise its machinery. Our aim was to reduce CELO’s machinery, as well as time and costs, and increase the productivity by up to as much as 20% – 30%.”

Openness, entrepreneurial spirit and collaboration are the values that were underlined throughout the project, since its beginning. The expert team of both companies shared their know-how to develop a tailor-made solution able to satisfy requests and needs. In two years, CELO had replaced around 30 machines with quick and reliable Carlo Salvi headers, enabling it to achieve and overcome the production expectations promised. As well as this, the easy and quick tool set-up also allowed CELO to save time.

“We looked at Carlo Salvi due to our need to improve our production processes and fit them to the market’s volatility,” explains Teresa Pons, plant manager at CELO. “The current growing market demand requires a series of parts more and more complex and completely customised. CELO is determined to face the changes and uncertainties of this period and is able to look to the future with versatility and trust. Carlo Salvi’s headers contributed and will continue giving our company a boost to face challenges.”

Carlo Salvi Stories

Carlo Salvi SpA specialises in the production of special headers for cold and hot wire forming. Carlo Salvi’s headers are sold directly or through agents and official distributors and are used all over the world by well known fastener manufacturers in a variety of industries such as automotive, aerospace and electrical.

Having thousands of headers all around the world, Carlo Salvi wants to showcase the significance of team spirit and solidarity, which has never been more important – especially in times of a pandemic.