Company Profile Romani Components INTRODUCTION Linear motion components of Romani’s distribution originated from Paolo Agosteo’s idea in December 1997. The initial distribution activity started in Angelo Romani’s S.p.A. and later developed into the purposely founded Romani Components S.r.l., deriving from an Angelo Romani’s company branch. The company formed in the beginning of January 2001. Through partnerships with various local manufacturers, the Company specialized in the exclusive marketing of the linear motion components in the Italian industry, complementing Angelo Romani’s products. Among one of the first and major partners to Romani Components is the Korean SBC company, which specialized in linear ball rails supply as well as other various products. It’s also responsible for producing around 70% of the sales revenues. Furthermore Romani Components has been collaborating for several years with Winner Technology, a linear ball rails and bearing screws supply manufacturer in Korea. Korea has been the hub for developing new partnerships in different countries, with Taiwan being the major one. Indeed Romani company has clinched a strong alliance with Gten, the emerging rolled ball screws manufacturer company in Taiwan. Romani Components relies on several important alliances in Europe. These alliances include the Spanish Korta, which specializes in ground ball screws, the Czech Hestego, which specializes in bellows and telescopic protections and the German Hyprostatik for hydrostatic guideways, spindles, rotary tables and screws. Romani Components ventures forward and a new alliance with the American Pacific Bearing company is forthcoming. Pacific Bearing is a rapidly-expanding company in the worldwide market, because it is a manufacturer of linear and sliding ball rails supply, which complements all of the Romani Components products. PARTNERSHIPS The subsidiary company GmbH, settled in Gerolzhofen (Wurzuburg, Germany), deals with the distribution of Romani Components products in all of the German speaking countries. In Germany, the company has been already operating since the late 90s and was owned by Alfred Berger, the current Romani GmbH partner. The new company has not only achieved its original goals, it has also increased sales, which allowed them to reach the sales revenues of the Italian Romani Components. In Europe, Romani has developed a trading and technical rapport with high-standard partners, such as with Rollco in Helsingborg, Sweden, which has recently started up a trading branch in Taipei. Rollco presents the same product range in the Scandinavian territory that Romani Components and Romani GmbH deal with in the Italian and German territory respectively. Therefore, European trading is spreading and expanding vertically throughout the countries and will enable international customers to be granted high-level assistance. STOCK Romani Components can guarantee stocking availability in the three European warehouses (Milan, Wurzburg and Helsingborg). The company can also stock products for Eastern Italian based customers, Balcans and Eastern European countries, because of the Angelo Romani firm located in San Vito al Tagliamento, Pordenone. MARKET Currently the major Romani Components customers produce machine tools, sheet metal working and automation systems. The company is heading towards market diversification and it is focusing on dealing with new business trade with industrial machinery and plant manufacturers of different genres. SALES DISTRIBUTION The business relationship with local distributors and agents from different Italian areas allows a widespread penetration into the linear motion components market. Distributors and sales agents are always up – to - date on new products, thanks to seminars purposely organized in Romani Components, as well as in the other related companies. The greatest strength of Romani Components is the unrelenting presence of the four sales executives who manage their four respective business areas, for which they are responsible. They have acquired several years of experience in the linear motion components field, regularly attend seminars about specific products and visit European trade-fairs. STRATEGIES Romani Components strategy includes the choice of a complete range of linear motion components as well as dedicated customer care. The company main objective is to provide excellent service to its customers. The company offers maximum flexibility and strategic solutions for all requests and stands as the main point of contact for any issue concerning the linear motion components. For this reason Romani Components designed a Quick Center which can guarantee efficient and quick delivery, even in a few hours, while reinforcing the outside technicaltrading structure to guarantee the local assistance. SERVICE Romani Components has thousands of products available in the warehouse to solve any problems as they arise. The Swedish company Solid Components is a major partner of Romani Components. Together they developed an operating software to process and shape the final result of the product. Besides the usual CAD informatics system, the software allows the customer to draw, in a simple and very intuitive way, its own component, its tri-dimensional visualization, its mechanical assembly and eventually allowing him to request an offer and process any possible order. The procedure is extremely user friendly. The access to the Romani Components website allows anybody to use the software without having to sign-up. FUTURE Motus Tech is a company that deals with the manufacturing of complex industrial automation systems. It has signed an agreement with Romani Components and has been its main representative in the Italian territory since early 2008. This partnership allows Romani Components to penetrate the most complex markets and to offer immediate solutions for OEM customer’s requests as well as to wholesale consumers. Besides Romani Components is at the moment widening his product range in order to promote much more a cross-sectional sale on the industrial market which is requiring a high competence in the linear motion field. EVENTS Romani Components is regularly present in every major national and international trade fair representing its sector. Its presence is either direct or indirect through public relationships, activities and partnerships. All of this makes Romani Components flexible, dynamic and always ready to stay current company with its business responsibilities. Romani Components is a company which looks ahead to the market and is ready to renew itself in order to follow the trend. Main site: Via De Gasperi, 146 20017 – Rho – Milano Board Management: Paolo Agosteo, Managing Director Represented Companies and Distributed Products: SBC Linear (Korea) GTEN (Taiwan) KORTA (Spain) CPC (Taiwan) WINNER Technology (Korea) WON (Korea) MOTUS TECH (Italy) MEDAN GMBH (Germany) PACIFIC BEARING (USA) HYPROSTATIK (Germany) DETA (Taiwan) PMI (Taiwan) There are 10 product ranges and they include a great amount of distributed products which supply all of the requests for the linear motion components. Linear ball rails Ball screws Ball screws support units Lock nuts Rolling and sliding guideways Ball bushing and shafts Hydrostatik guides, screws and elements Linear tables and modules Bellows and telescopic covers Aluminium profiles Precision racks and pinions Automatic lubrication units Automatic tool changers High speed spindles