Successful start-up of the new brass hot forging line with a rated power of 600 tons. This press is 25% larger than the biggest of the previous presses, and the line also includes a new billet heating furnace with an innovative gas combustion system to reduce and modulate energy use.
New brass hot forging line has been installed and commissioned! A 600 Ton rated-power mechanical press, along with a gas-fired billet heating system, have been installed and commissioned. This new press will increase our capacity of forged yearly quantity by 10%, and will increase the weight of the allowed single piece by about 25%. This investment represents an important milestone for the future of Bonpress, with the aim to ameliorate the capacity to better and better serve our clientele with complex geometry products, fast...
When we decided to take this step, above all we had one thing in mind: to increase satisfaction in the purchasing experience for our customers. And so, after an intense journey, the new MES software, Manufacturing Execution System , is finally operational for the complete and digital management of all our production departments. This investment allows us to increase organizational efficiency, the diffusion of the culture of data, and to equip ourselves with full control of the flow of materials and operations for each individual order...
For Easter 2025 we gave ourselves a gift: we placed an order for the purchase of a new mechanical press for brass hot stamping, with a power of 600 Tons, or 25% larger than the most powerful of our current presses. The line will include a new billet heating furnace.
Starting from November, it will be our twelfth automatic forging line, and it is part of the vision of continuous growth and improvement that Bonpress never stops pursuing.
Best wishes to us and to all our friends, customers and collaborators.
The brass alloys we handle are increasingly numerous, and in order to ensure visual recognition of the different bars to our warehouse and cutting operators, we have introduced a coloration at the head of the bundle with organic paints.
These are the main alloys forged to date in Bonpress: CW617N / CW602N / CW625N / ECOBRASS / CW510L / CW511L / CW626N / CW725R / CW724R. Everything that can guarantee greater traceability and error reduction is in line with our strategy of constant growth and improvement!
Thanks to FARM BRASS for providing us with our new heat treatment furnace, indeed after hot forging parts in CW602N alloy, to optimize the corrosion resistance of the material, we perform a heat treatment between 500°C and 550°C for a holding time at temperature of at least 2 hours, with cooling to room temperature. This treatment allows the solubilization of the residual “beta” phase to make the material resistant to dezincification and ensure our customers products free from electrolytic corrosion.
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In 2024 we are consolidating the production of brass watermeters housings. After some investments in new machineries, we are now able to manufacture DN15 and DN20 sizes, with total length of 110 and 130 mm. From forging to machining, along with dimensional controls, we are satisfying the main watermeter manufacturers.
10 machines among machining centers, horizontal and vertical lathes for manufacturing new dies, or modifying and maintaining existing ones, are now at the service of the forging shop.
This, along with our in-house engineering department for product and tool design, contributes to the ever-improving service that is part of our value proposal towards our customers.
2023 starts with an important investment: the acquisition of an additional production shop!
The year starts with an important investment: the acquisition of a new building, intended for production departments and warehouse, with a size equal to that acquired a year ago (about 4500 square meters). The industrial plans include, for now, some light production departments and warehouse, with more surface remaining for new projects in the next few years.
We are ending the commissioning and start-up of our new CNC machining center for the in-house manufacturing of the hot forging and cold trimming dies. It is a powerful and quick-setting machine, with spindle at 15000 rpm.
With this new investment we aim at increasing the capacity to manufacture and repair tools, which will turn, as usual, in a faster and better service for our customers.
Our ability to perform mechanical machining is strengthened: this double-spindle lathe allows us to machine brass inserts (in the photo, specifically in CW511L alloy), intended for co-molding in thermoplastic fittings (Polypropylene). The growth strategy of the mechanical machining department aims, like all our investments, at increasing the level of customer service: flexibility, timeliness, effective quality controls... these are the factors that improve the work for our customers, and we are proud to do our part in their (and our)...
After 8 months since when we purchased our new 4.000 sqm building, now it starts being refilled with brass bar sawing machines, trimming presses, brass bar warehouse, packaging machines for the water meter fittings.. And the offices are being built and furnished these days.
And new machineries are coming in the next months, keeping on investing in progress and development with the aim to improve the customer service and satisfaction.
A new hot forging machinery has been put into operation in our forging shop: it is composed by a mechanical press Rovetta FO350 and a new FARM BRASS gas heating furnace, push type. The aim is to increase the flexibility of manufacturing, since the press works only in discontinuous mode which is well suited to some specific forged parts, while freeing up capacity in the other continuous forging lines.
A new automatic hot stamping line, including a mechanical press MECOLPRESS SEO 36 CVE/CS and a billet furnace from FARM BRASS, is operational since November 2021. The aim is to improve the customer service by reducing the delivery time, especially for the international markets.
A new, fully automatic trimming unit has been put into operation in September 2021 in the new building. Again an investment in order to better serve the customer, with speed of delivery and trimming precision.
The ever increasing spread of components made from non-ferrous metals by the building industry (plumbing), the furnishing industry (handles), the household appliances, the electrotechnical industry and the automotive industry, etc. has required producers to direct themselves towards the hot pressing technique which uses brass rod as its raw material, modern heating techniques, high output mechanical presses and special sub-presses to produce cavity cored and complex components simply and efficiently. This process offers many advantages in...
In order to follow up on the growth of recent years, a new 4000 m2 production site was acquired, which will house some production departments and the warehouse for products to be shipped. The final goal is always to better serve the customer: with more space Bonpress will be able to be more agile and quick in deliveries, rationalize internal and external logistics, and have greater control over processes. Therefore the new bulding was completed, with a regular shape, high roof heights, easy access. A new important investment that is...
A brand-new hot forging line has been installed in our forging factory. It is made up by an automatic gas furnace and a 360 ton continuous cycle forging press. This increases our capacity by about 10%, to cope with increasing demand by our customers all-over Europe. The investments strategy is always led by a great and precise goal: to increase the purchasing experience of our customers, by combining very good and high quality products with competitive prices and full service, such as fast tools manufacturing, prompt and on-time delivery,...
T4SM is our reliable partner that helped us with introducing an integrated system for real-time monitoring and control software for our factory. Here they describe the job and the great results achieved together.
In accordance with our tradition of quality in every process we undertake to satisfy our customers, our company has achieved the renovation of the ISO 9001 quality system.
In Bonpress we have always been very attentive to the process innovations, to technology and digitalisation as a mean to improve quality and efficiency. We could not avoid taking the opportunities that the Industry 4.0 offers, and it was just a few months ago that we started designing what today is officially kicking-off: an integrated system to collect and process the data coming from our 9 forging presses and 5 cutting machines. This will allow us to: - monitor the working parameters - track the manufacturing data and the process...
Here is an example of what our largest press is capable of forging! Our Mecolpress SEO/44 CVE-CS allows us in this case to forge a 3.5 kg brass part, with two 70 mm diameter coring pins that penetrate the piece for a total of 80 mm.
For our client, this translates into a significant advantage in terms of material savings and machining time, while keeping the mechanical characteristics of the parts unchanged. Bonpress never stops investing in the latest hot stamping technologies, where they give a tangible advantage to our customers.
The role of products’ identification in our process, to grant our customers always the best quality, without surprises. We at Bonpress Brass Forging wanted to take a further step in the continuous improvement of our level of service and our quality: with the introduction of labels to grant the identification of the brass forged products in each box, our quality system arises as guarantee of lowest defectivity rate and, if detected, full traceability along the process. Many customers already appreciated, and this gratification will...