Who we are

Bonpress has been for 40 years a leading player in the market of brass hot forging.
As a family business and thanks to passion, entrepreneurship, continuous technological investments and manufacturing diversification, since 2002 Bonpress has entered a solid growth path and now is considered a reference company for hot stamped parts in brass and non ferrous alloys.

A successful generational change allowed to keep unaltered the business’ mission; the young and committed ownership, thanks to courageous and wise choices, managed to lead the company to be recognised as a competitive, reliable and flexible partner. Our moral guidelines are indeed “satisfaction and closeness to the customer”. Each client becomes unique, each single project is carefully and attentively studied. Thanks to the latest technologies and to the best machineries available in the market, along with the culture of the total quality of the final product shared by all operators, we have built excellent and long lasting business partnerships. Since each one of our customers has specific expectations in terms of quality, service, deadlines meeting, and the absolute respect of these expectations is the key driver of our success.

Brass hot stamping and forging plant


The company is able to follow-up a project from A to Z, starting with the design of the forged part, the manufacturing of the dies, the hot forging, trimming, machining, up to the delivery to the customer, with the guarantee of a closed eye monitoring of each production phase with the goal to grant the best possible service.

"Each one of our customers has specific expectations in terms of quality, service, deadlines meeting, and the absolute respect of these expectations is the key driver of our success"

 

1973

Mr Giancarlo Bonardi starts working in the field of hot brass forging, gaining a hands-on huge technical expertise.

1979

The first independent forging company is founded with the installation of the first friction screw press.


2002

Bonpress srl is born thanks to the change to the current corporate form.

2003

The movement of the factory to the current facility, with the installation of 2 new forging lines. The customers base enlarges to new industries and countries.

2009

The generational change is completed. With renovated impulse, Mr Paolo Bonardi becomes the managing director, backed by the sister Cristina (financial director) and the brother-in-law Antonio Greco (plant manager), with whom a new blooming season starts.

2013

The factory now boasts the doubling of the production capacity with respect to 2009.


2016

The start of the works to enlarge the factory and of the new building for the management’s offices, completed in 2017, with the forecast of a further enlarging of the plant scheduled by 2021.

2018

The machinery park expands with the installation of 2 new automatic forging lines, including the biggest press of 450 ton which allows for manufacturing core forged parts up to 3” / 3 kg.

2019

The purchase of a 200 tons press, and to ameliorate the process also 2 automatic trimming lines are added.

2020

The works for the further enlarging of the building start

2023

Inauguration of a second 9,000 sqm production plant

2025

Purchase of a heat treatment furnace for forged parts' solubilisation