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OEB SCREWS: THE FOREIGNERS' FAVOURITES
Rome (Ign) - Totally Italian production for almost totally foreign clientele. OEB, an acronym for Officine Egidio Brugola (www.brugola.it), is a company from Lissone (a few km from Monza in Lombardy), who holds the Italian record for export: with its 250 employees and € 100 million turnover, it exports almost 98% of its production to Europe, America and Asia. Founded in 1926, the company produces screws and bolts. And the OEB fastening components are commonly used by all the major car and motorbike manufacturers in Europe and North America (including Volkswagen, Renault and Ford). A product which is now well-known, in terms of its superior quality and the service provided to its clientele, it is the result of the entire company's constant commitment to continuous innovation in process and its product. It has also become the supplier of important Asian manufacturers, such as the Japanese car manufacturer Mazda, with whom OEB is working on the development of a new generation of engines.
It is certainly not a coincidence that socket head screws, which are among the most commonly used pieces for constructing apparatus and machinery, have become known in everyday Italian as "Brugola" after Egidio Brugola, the founder of the company, as have the special spanners for using these screws. But, as well as socket head screws, OEB also produces six-lobed, four-lobed and three-lobed screws which can replace normal metric screws when the parts to be coupled are made of malleable materials. Due to the structure of the shank, the three-lobed section rather than cylindrical, allows them to construct a metric thread when they are first screwed, acting as real screw taps for threading. There is a wide family of products and very high performance, which are often developed in accordance with the customer's instructions, according to the OEB philosophy, which involves forming high-level partnerships for improving the performance of the products and implementing new experimentation systems for constantly improving quality.
One of the key turning points in the company's history is the invention of the Polydrive, which was patented in 1993. This is a new manoeuvring wrench which makes tightening easier with less effort and durability of seven times greater. It was also due to this patent that the company's market shares increased and the OEB brand opened various new passages onto the market, thanks to constant commitment in research and development, which involves annual investments in new technology and production systems of about 17% of its turnover. This effort has been awarded by the company's economic results (from 2004 to 2006, revenue increased from € 74 to € 100 million) and by market response, as OEB now occupies a leading position with a world share in the industry of 22%.
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