The history of bifrangi dates back to the beginning of the 19th century in Mussolente, a
town in the Venice area, which is one of the most productive in North Italy. The tradition of working steel
using the classical blacksmith's methods started here for the Biasion family who are stillthe owners of the
company. The anvil, hammer and grindstone were the only tools used almost until half way through the 20th
century to produce agricultural equipment and tools for masons, metal workers and carpenters on an artisan
level. Following the Second World War, with the arrival of the first presses, the industrial transformation for
Bifrangi began, which in the following 50 years was to develop constantly and led it to become a world
leader in the production of flanges, gears, hubs and other items for the automobile, tractor etc. industries.
An important step for the present development phase for Bifrangi began in the 60s. It was in that period in
fact that the change over from forging gears, engine parts for motorbikes and parts for agricultural equipment
to the production of the first flanges took place. From then up until 1980 steel flanges and fittings became the
main items produced by Bifrangi. Since 1980, with the moving to the present site and thanks to the introduction,
in 1985, into the production process of automatic machines for large quantities, wheel hubs, gears and special
parts have become a great part of the production. At present Bifrangi has reached a high level of automation
and a continuity in the cycle of production, i.e. because of the attention given to the problems of energy saving
and ecology and above all because of their very high production standards, are esteemed and appreciated by
numerous industries of international standing. Bifrangi have about 250 employees, the majority of whom are
specialised technicians. The main effort of company managment over the years has been to rationalise the work
process and to instil professionalism and specialisation among the staff as much as possible. This has given rise
to a natural flow oh the work cycle and the creation of several self sufficient members capable of providing the
customer with the same complete technical, production and commercial solution. This competence and sense
of responsability has resulted in increased attention towards quality and enterprice in the solution to techical
problems. A development which has enable maintenance, design and construction of machines to be carried out
internally, even to the point of petenting a new method of hot cutting which noticeably cuts energy costs and
resolves all the typical ecological problems connected with these plants. Quality is the apex of all Bifrangi
production; only by optimising company organisation, sinergically integrated with the capacity to design, it is
possible to meet international quality standards. The design phase both of dies and tooling is extremely important.
Final quality controls are rigid and diversified; analysis laboratiries carry out mechanical resistance, tensile stress
tests, and grain control and control on chemical components of the alloys. The enterprise shown in designing,
production functionality and severity of analysis have enabled Bifrangi to obtain the most important international
certifications which rang from TÜV to SKF, and from the most important automobile industries such as Audi and
Volkswagen, not to mention ISO 9002. Bifrangi have a vast number of machines which enable them to produce
items with various finishing, from unfinished forgings up to the finished item. The set up of the work cycle:
1) preparation of dies, 2) forging, 3) treatments, 4) finishing, the high quantity of items produced and the quality
required means there has to be a large number of high precision machines. In each sector, from the presse to the
treatmen oven from the turning to the milling machines to the automatic complex forging system, Bifrangi possess
the best modern technology can offer. The number of machines for hot pressing is particularly high, they include
presses which vary from 1600 to 6500 tonnes, with induction heating and hot cutting. The necessary for
production large quantities of small items and to cut production costs has meant Bifrangi introducting automatic
forging machines. The Hatebur and National machines installed give high production with very high quality
standards and the weight of the items can vary between 0.3 and 4.5 kg. It is thanks to these machines that gear
making, wheel hubs for automobiles, rings and special items wew able to be introduced into the Bifrangi production.
The varied requests from the market has compelled companies to have equipment which is more complete and to
be able to supply different finishings. Following his trend, Bifrangi have multiplied their production possibilities by
including sanding, heat treatment, coating and complex finishing processes numerous machines are involved,
including work centres and CNC lathes. The production capacity of the hot forging plants is able to reach about
60,000 tonnes annualy of steel parts. The specific capacities of the presses and the wide range of machining
operations possible plus the treatments means the variety of products is unlimited. The present range of products
consists of about 2,000 articles of very different shapes and with weight which go from 0.3 kg to 150 kg.
Thousands of machined items a day leave Bifrangi warehouse, to be distributed throughout an important market ar
a world level, where Germany and the United States of America are their most important admirers and purchasers.