The making of Froma - How automatic welding lines are made

Froma is the name of a historic Italian company specializing in the mechanical engineering sector. Founded in 1967 as a brainchild of Riccardo Frigerio, the company deals with the design and production of automatic welding machines.
Today Expometals.net will bring Froma into the spotlight, in order to show the public how these particular machines so dear to the household appliance and supermarket industries are made.

All Froma systems are "full custom": each line, in fact, is designed according to the specific customers’ needs in order to guarantee the best possible flexibility and respond to every production request. Every single machine is internally engineered from mechanics to electrics; as far as it concerns software, long-standing collaborations allow the company to be at the top even in the field of automation.

The choice of suppliers represents another fundamental step for the achievement of noteworthy performance and reliability. Froma cooperates with a selected group of companies, singled out over time on the basis of proximity, delivery times, quality, and costs. The accurate selection of suppliers is clearly reflected in the quality of the mechanical components that are assembled in Froma to give shape to the actual automatic welding machines, ready to be put into operation.

After construction, all Froma machines undergo strict quality checks, which ensure the correct operation of each individual component. The controls are carried out in-house, supervised by the corporate staff: this allows reasonably short times for the installation of the complete lines at customers' sites.
The company also performs small production tests, where machines are pushed to 85-90% of efficiency. After the final acceptance of the customer, the lines are disassembled and prepared for shipment. Froma is an export-driven company and its target markets are mainly Germany, Eastern Europe, China and the USA.

The production steps for a first-rate automatic welding machine, as you have seen, are not numerous, but they are all critical and strongly interconnected. Each of these phases affects the quality of the finished product and allows the company to be a reference point in the market.

For further details you can contact the company directly using the information on the left.