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Overview

Nuova Fima, together with Surface Inspection and LGWAY is a group of companies with over 60 years of combined experience. The group boasts an installed base of over 3000 sorting lines, over 600 automatic inspection systems, several hundreds decorating lines and over 200 LGVs.

Nuova Fima is a world leading supplier of factory automation equipment for the ceramic tile industry. It designs, manufactures, market and services tile decoration equipment, sorting, stacking and packaging systems, palletizing robots and laser guided vehicles for the ceramic industry.

We are proud to have concluded a range of innovations that improve both our products and the services offered to our customers worldwide. Our aim is to guarantee continuous development of a wider and better range of products together with an even more efficient service to our customers. The introduction of extended service hours enables us to offer immediate support outside of normal working hours.

Nuova Fima is part of a global niche market, with three fundamental characteristics:

  • Its customers are companies that lead ceramic world production;
  • Its employees are highly competent and the company's key positions are held by professionals renowned in their respective sectors;
  • Many Nuova Fima products represent the reference in their sector with regards to performance, reliability and durability.

For the three years 2008-2010, in addition to further consolidating its position in existing markets, Nuova Fima will concentrate on three main targets:

  • Growth in our existing markets and further improvement in terms of efficiency and profitability of all internal and external processes of the company;
  • Strengthening our customer relationships in order to develop products to give the most efficient production;
  • Increased level of service to all territories.

Product development and sales strategies

Nuova Fima has always been one of the leading companies in the evolution of systems for factory automation, in particular for the ceramic tile industry. Its prominent position is the result of thoroughly understanding its customers' needs, the capability to provide reliable solutions and working with customers to adapt and help them optimize their equipment to give the most efficient production.

More than 20 per cent of the group's employees in Italy and the UK are dedicated to the continuous development of our products. These include areas such as product engineering, mechanics, electronics, embedded real time software and image processing. Over 5% of the total turnover has been invested in research and development last year and several innovative and competitive products have been introduced to the market:

  • Genusis 1202, a sorting machine based on the successful technology of the Synthesis, Nuova Fima's leading product with more than 700 installations worldwide. Genusis 1202 can sort large format tiles up to 120x120 cm;
  • CPK T1202 packaging machine, a totally new concept of packaging with the ability to manage large format tiles up to 120x120 cm;
  • GEMA, the digital decorating system for ceramic tiles, developed in collaboration with Jemtex. GEMA provides digital inkjet printing technology but without the associated problems found in similar technologies.

International presence

By operating group policies and integrating the customer support services of associated companies, Nuova Fima has increased its presence in key regions and has improved the quality and quantity of the services offered in countries such as Mexico, Brazil, Spain, South East Asia, Iran, Turkey, Germany and Russia.