Olimpia 80 has been successfully operating in the planning and implementation of plants and equipment for the production of high-quality tubes for over 40 years. The company manufactures custom-made equipment for its customers, thus offering high technology, high quality, user-friendliness as well as substantial reductions in manufacturing costs and the highest productivity.
In a conversation with Tube & Pipe India, Mr. Cesare Vernocchi, Area Sales Manager, Olimpia 80, talks about the company’s journey, strengths, and its patented technologies.
“We stay in contact with the customer, try to understand their needs… keeping in mind the mechanical characteristics and the layout of the plant.”
Tube & Pipe India: Please tell us about your company.
Cesare Vernocchi: Olimpia 80 is an Italian family-owned private company. We are a manufacturer of complete lines and equipment for welded tubes and pipes. Our strength is that we are able to provide customised solutions to our clients, and every project is engineered according to the customer’s needs. We are a small company, but we invest a lot of our time and money in developing new solutions for tube manufacturers. We have customers all over the world and in India; we have had two crucial clients since last year- Ratnamani Metals and Tubes Ltd. and APL Apollo Tubes Ltd.
TPI: Can you elaborate more on the order you received from India?
CV: For APL Apollo, we signed the order for the fifth machine with linear cage- forming technology. We are very happy because we have been receiving repeated orders. The philosophy of APL Apollo matches ours and we are glad to be associated with them.
TPI: How do you ensure customer satisfaction in every machine you deliver?
CV: Just to explain our working method, we stay in contact with the customer, try to understand their needs, and then start engineering the best solution together, keeping in mind the mechanical characteristics and the layout of the plant. After knowing the customer requirements, we begin the engineering process of the machine & machine parts inside our premises, start the production, assemble the line, test the line, and finally, deliver it to the customer. The technician goes to the customer, installs the machine, puts it in operation, trains the operator and helps him achieve the desired goal. Our job finishes only when the customer is able to produce exactly the quality of the tubes required by them.
We also have a company specialised in welded tube manufacturing for stainless steel named Olimpia Inox. The company specialises in stainless steel tubes welded by laser. This gives us an opportunity to test our idea before implementing it.
TPI: Tell us about your product portfolio along with its key strengths.
CV: Olimpia 80, at this moment, has over 30 existing copyrights on different solutions. Some of our patented technologies include linear cage forming, linear cage forming for square and rectangular tubes, tube mill with sliding change on rails, linear cage forming finpass for round tubes, self-adjusting tube straightening unit, round tube polishing machine, bead hammer, anti-twist unit, etc.
TPI: Shed some light on the recent developments.
CV: We have a patented solution engineered for medium-sized stainless steel tube mills that use the laser welding method instead of conventional blades. One of the advantages of this machine is that it does not have to be stopped for changing blades.
One year ago, we installed the prototype at the premises of one of our customers in Italy. In the recent Tube 2022 exhibition, we presented the second step of the machine. We are in production of three such machines for the same customer. We might be a small organisation, but we think big. We follow our customer step by step in order to give them the maximum technology and solution and solve their problem.
TPI: Could you tell us a bit about the manufacturing capabilities of the company?
CV: Our Company is capable to manufacture around 8 to 12 completed tube mills per year, depending on the size. With our production capacity, we can cover a wide range of tubes from OD 5 mm to OD 450 mm. However, that depends on the order that we receive as we don’t keep stock of our products and produce only on order.
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TPI: How much time does it take for you to make a machine?
CV: At this moment, the delivery time for every kind of machine is around one year. We provide fully engineered and customised solutions; every machine we produce is different from the others. Apart from this, Olimpia 80 pays great attention to technical assistance and after-sales service.
