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Leader in design, production and sale of tip dressers, electrode changers and hard metal cutters for dressing resistance welding electrodes.
A story that speaks of future
Founded by Eugenio Tedeschi in 1989, Sinterleghe has grown thanks to its own development of a know-how that has allowed to diversify its offer getting to high quality standards.
Thanks to our products performances, we have sold to some of the most important automotive plants around the world.
Sinterleghe has become the company that it is today, thanks to the path followed during all those years. This path is continuously developing Sinterleghe. Its succes comes from this path that has created value for Sinteleghe itself, for its customers and all the stakeholders. Creating value for people permits to create economical value; valuing everyone’s talent and ideas is a powerful tool to grow as company.
A mission, an unequivocal goal
Master the know-how to produce and evolve applications in the field of dressing and automatic electrode change, integrating them with all the potential of industry 4.0 with the unequivocal goal of creating value for all stakeholders.
Our value
We have the ambition to provide our partners and customers with innovative technological solutions.
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Safety and health
Safety and health of people is the company’s priority
02.
Ethic
Transparency, fairness, honesty, integrity and team work
03.
Respect for people
We welcome human resources without distinction of sex, age, race, nationality, religion, psychophysical and socio-economic conditions
04.
Continuous training
We foster the development of multidisciplinary skills by creating multi-disciplinary teams, where high-level performance is multiplied in a culture of honesty, authenticity and healthy conflict with the unequivocal aim of enhancing one’s skills and developing new ones
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Continuous improvement
We believe that the main characteristic of a process/product improvement is its sustainability and implementation over time in an interconnected way in the environmental, economic and social field
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Communication
Communication, in all its forms, is the main tool for interacting with others, transparency represents its truthfulness and quality. For this reason we implement visual boards in front of which teams compare and make daily operational decisions
Sinterleghe in numbers
1
Registered trademark
2
Branches
9
Worldwide patents
10
Authorized partners
120
Automotive plant supplied
2k
Annual production capacity of tip dressers & changers
18k
Hard metal cutters production capacity
100%
Internal machining cycles for the production of the patented RX cutters
80%
Internal mechanical processing for the production of dressers and electrode change
Our story
You can’t tell Sinterleghe without considering the research that has made it, over the years, the company of today, and that continues to transform it.
1890
Anzola d'Ossola (VB - Italy) the Tedeschi family founded a sawmill, an activity passed on for 5 generations that allows, in 1948, some descendants to found the first company in Italy for the processing of carbide. Today Anzola d'Ossola is one of the main Italian districts of companies specialized in sintering and machining of carbide, among these also Sinterleghe, whose name comes from the union and abbreviation of “sinterizzazione” (sintering) and “leghe” (alloys)
1989
Eugenio Tedeschi founded in Turin Sinterleghe, a company initially active in the sale of sintered hard metal products
1992
Conception and construction of a hard metal cutter for the finishing of welding electrodes and registration of the logo and brand Ravitex®
1994
Approval SRA Tip dresser Series and hard metal cutters c/o BMW AG for the E-39 project (Dingolfing - Germany)
1996
Approval SRE Delta Series and hard metal cutters c/o VW AG for the Worldwide A4 project (Wolfsburg – Germany, Bruxelles – Belgium, Mlada Boleslav – Czech Republic, Puebla – Mexico, São Bernardo do Campo – Brazil)
1998
ISO 9002 certification
1999
Foundation of Ravitex Ltda, branch in Brazil
2000
Foundation of Ravitex GmbH, branch in Germany
2001
ISO 9001 certification
2002
Approval for the SRE Delta Tip dresser series and hard metal cutters c/o FIAT AUTO and used at the plants in Mirafiori (Italy), Cassino (Italy), Pomigliano (Italy), Melfi (Italy), Tychy (Poland); TOFAS: Bursa (Turkey); Iveco: Brescia (Italy), Suzzara (Italy); SEVEL: Atessa (Italy)
2008
Where the family sawmill was located, a production plant is built with a temperature-controlled metrology chamber and an area equipped with robots and welding pliers for testing and developing Ravitex® products
2010
Partnership in China with Shanghai Faith which allows us to acquire: BYD, SGM, Faw VW, GEELY GROUP, SGMW, NISSAN, SAIC, NIO and many others
2016
Extension of the production plant in Anzola d'Ossola (VB - Italy) entirely realized with lamellar structure in XLAM to remember the origins and the work of the past generations of the Tedeschi family
2017
Approval of the Sigma Dresser & Changer Patented series and HSS insert cutters by VW AG, products used at VW plants: Wolfsburg (Germany), Emden (Germany), Zwickau (Germany), Curitiba (Brazil), Taubatè (Germany), São Bernardo do Campo (Germany), Pune (India); AUDI: Brussels (Belgium), Neckarsul (Germany), Changchun (China); SEAT: Martorell (Spain)
2018
Start of the process of transformation of Sinterleghe: from an entrepreneurial company to Lean Enterprice where the logic of continuous improvement is favored by the creation of work teams with multidisciplinary skills
2022
Purchase of CNC 4.0 machines and implementation for their use of processes supported by predictive maintenance to increase the production capacity of both mechanical components and carbide cutters RX: from 6 000 pcs./year at 18 000 pcs./year
2023
Approval and sale of the RX.2 patented hard metal cutters c/o TESLA Berlin-Brandenburg.
Approval and sale of the Sigma Dresser & Changer Patented series c/o FORD Turchia and Mahindra India
2024
Development of a new release system with clamps suitable for the removal from the welding gun of the electrodes even if contaminated by glue and/ or dirty water. Development and market launch of the new Sigma Plus Dresser & Changer Patented series
