Negri Bossi S.p.A., a leading firm in the design, production and sales of thermoplastic injection mouldings, and listed within the STAR division since 2001, has signed an important agreement with Fiat Group for the supply of new machines to produce plastic car parts.

Specifically, the agreement worth approximately 10 million euros concerns the supply of a new Bi-Power robotised plant comprising five production cells, each with a capacity of 3500 tons, with a production capacity able to feed the assembly of more than 1500 vehicles per day.

The agreement plays a particularly important role in the change of strategy and re-launch adopted by the management in recent months. In other words, Negri Bossi’s transformation from producers of high quantities of standard machinery to solution providers – creators of integrated and individualised production systems based on the needs of customers.

Not only does this contract confirm the high technological level of Negri Bossi machinery, including in relation to solutions offered by larger international players operating in the plastic moulding machinery sector, but it also goes to confirm the strategy undertaken by the management. A strategy which has led Negri Bossi to be looked on as a benchmark supplier, able to offer "unique" plant engineering solutions catering for customers’ needs.

"The partnership with Fiat Group," commented CEO, Eugenio Ferrragina, "officially places Negri Bossi among the few international operators able to offer technologically advanced, integrated solutions and flexible, customised, high-tonnage machinery. We are extremely proud to work alongside Fiat Group, in the firm belief that the ability to create a value chain on the basis of the Italian industrial system’s excellences is the right way to tackle international markets."

"I consider the partnership with Fiat Group to be an important move in development of the group’s activities, especially in the automotive sector," concluded CEO, Eugenio Ferragina. "This contract allows us to record a considerably larger orders backlog compared to the same period of last year, even if extended over a longer period".