Brovedani’s corporate culture is also the result of technological innovations that have been fundamental not only to the growth of the Group, but also to the creativity they instill in the products of the companies that are Brovedani’s customers. Here are the principal phases in this process.

I - In the 1980s, production technology for the first generation of gasoline injectors progresses from manufacture from steel bars to fabrication through stamping.

II - In the 1980s, in the sector of computer hard drives, the world’s finest automatic production systems are developed using internally designed technologies that provide high volumes with simultaneous execution of spacing rings having three critical features (parallelism, flatness and surface cleanliness) - all in a single step. Over 20,000,000 units are produced with zero discards and tolerances of a few thousandths of a millimeter!

III - In 1989, in the automotive sector, the first robot-equipped, multiple-technology production line is built for constructing shafts for starting motors.

At present, the Brovedani Group produces more than 1,200,000 shafts per month. They equip 50% of all cars made in Europe.

IV - In the late 1990s, the Group gives a substantial boost to the unprecedented success of the revolutionary diesel injection system called “Common Rail” by developing creative, economical solutions for the industrial production of 7 components in the injector. One of these parts features mechanical sealing to 2000 atmospheres, which is obtained with slightly curved surfaces (two ten-thousandths of a millimeter).

Today, 40% of the almost 35 million diesel Common Rail injectors produced worldwide contain Brovedani components.

v- In 1998, a production line for disk brake caliper pistons is developed that employs integrated, completely automatic means of grinding, chrome-plating, dehydrogenation, polishing, and achieving 100% quality control with artificial vision systems.

VI - Production of a component for high-pressure pumps is begun. It features sliding surfaces whose low coefficient of friction and reduced wear creates hydraulic dynamic lift in the pistons (as is well known, liquids cannot be compressed).

What’s more, during the production of one of the most important components on today’s automotive market, modifications are successfully made to certain components at project start-up in response to problems with the operation of the finished product. An essential contribution is made to its functional capacity, thanks to a solution that requires the ability to execute finishing with a flatness of 2 ten-thousandths of a millimeter.

By comparison, 2 ten-thousandths of a millimeter is:

- 1/25 the diameter of a particle of smoke

- 1/65 the thickness of a fingerprint

- 1/375 the diameter of a human hair