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RKB GROUPSwiss quality and accuracy Gianandrea Mazzola“The Alternative Power”: this is the vision with which RKB Group presents itself to the industrial fi eld, as it can rely on a solid experience and a fl exible effi cient high-technology organization as well as on the complete control and management of the whole production process, thus qualifying itself as an ideal manufacturer of rolling bearings in all respects.RKB Group, manufacturer of technological rolling bearings for the heavy in-dustry, operates in Swit-zerland (Ticino Canton) with executive headquar-ters in Balerna. Owing to a field experien-ce that has been going on for over 70 years, the firm is offering itself as a worldwide reference point, involving not only Swit-zerland but also Italy, Ireland, China, Ja-pan, The Netherlands, Belgium, Vietnam and Mexico in their direct operational ac-tivities and with a distribution network covering every part of the world. At the RKB headquarters, which have been recently enlarged, the author met Giangiacomo Colleoni, Managing Direc-tor, and Giulio Bianchi, Technical Team Unit Chief Engineer, to analyze (also) the growth of a brand that presents itself as a real concrete alternative to the big high-titled players in the area. «Nowadays the world industry – Colleoni says – is seeing a growing demand of more and more so-phisticated equipment and machinery in all areas. In this situation it is expected that rolling bearings comply with stricter and stricter parameters and have an increas-ing number of highly technological features to obtain better conditions of service life and reliability. During the last five years the market has been showing a situation where the demand of bearings, particular-ly medium and large size ones, has clearly exceeded the supply. This resulted in the growth of many new competitors which put new product solutions on the market that are apparently alternative. Very often, however, these showed inadequate technical and performance properties and this does not certainly help to recognize such com-ponents as qualified for conventionally in-tended uses. In this environment, thanks to the know-how gained in many years of field experience, a highly qualified managerial organization and an advanced production system, for a long time our firm is placing itself alongside the most important players of the area, as it can rely on facilities that allow to design and manufacture state-of-the-art products meeting the most demand-ing industry specifications».Such a result is obtainable thanks to a vertically orientated management model that is based on a complete corporation consistency. When one speaks of a roll-ing bearing, a simple product consisten-cy is not in fact sufficient. It is required a solidity covering the whole organization that designs, manufacture and distributes the product. This is an approach which necessarily results from the critical state of the product itself as it represents the connecting element between static and dynamic world.«In other words – Colleoni adds – the component has to meet the technology and performance requirements for which it has been selected and manufactured for a specified application. Our guidelines, know-how, engineering as well as our R&D and applied technologies which distinguish our firm, permit us to provide high techni-cal value-added products, guaranteeing the paradigm of reliability and consistency to our customers in the long run».Among the fi rst ones in Europe for availability from stockIn a world market estimated in about 30 billion euro (where almost 70% is consid-ered held by the 4-5 biggest world con-cerns), RKB Group comes playing on the concept of “Single Universal Organiza-tion” in order to be competitive as much as possible in terms not only of price but also, and especially, operational flexibil-ity, product quality, reliability and short delivery time.«Our stock store, unique of its kind, - Colle-oni continues – is recognized among the most important in Europe as product range and quantity are regarded. The availabil-ity of a product is obviously capital inten-sive. It is an absolutely considerable finan-cial commitment that can be quantified in about 35 million euro and is necessary to Giangiacomo Colleoni (at left) and Giulio Bianchi, respectively Managing Director and Chief Engineer at RKB Europe SA.2010

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make sure that our worldwide distribu-tion network provide a quick delivery. So, at present we have a stock range comprising versions which are able to meet the require-ments of the industrial field».Additionally, the same store is run by an appropriate patent pending advanced soft-ware (ASSM – Active Strategic Stock Man-agement), which enables the Swiss firm to offer important competitive advantages in terms of drastic time-to-market reduction in its whole distribution network.More in general, RKB is using an area of almost 90,000 m2, of which 13,500 m2 are in Balerna headquarters and...

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RKB GROUPtions for the alternative energies, which are an extremely important business area both for what concerns the rst equipment and the supply in its widest meaning.«For a long time now, the so-called “wind industry” - Bianchi adds – represents a big opportunity for us and at the same time a big technological challenge, at least for the strict approval protocols applied to rst equipment supply and the constant requests for high-The Group in briefRKB Group, with headquarters in Balerna (Switzerland), has a turnover of about 20 million euro for technological bearings only and hires about...

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