REFRASCHINI

A family business company founded by Eligio Re Fraschini in 1946, now under the management of his sons Piero and Massimo. It consists of engineering dept., workshop, composite dept. and testing room with a total surface of 3300 sqm.

Now is directed by Piero Refraschini and Massimo Refraschini, each with direct experience acquired in different sectors. Piero is more oriented to the commercial and organizing fields; Massimo deals with customers and suppliers and thanks to his skills he helps run and coordinate production.
Since High School their summer vacations were the opportunity to spend some training time in the Firm, working closely with the most skilled and able moulders, thus acquiring the secrets and tricks of the trade. Those training periods allowed them to run and manage the business as soon as they graduated, making it grow and expand gradually but constantly.
They took over as managers in 1983; the first N.C. machine and relevant programming system CAD-CAM were installed in 1986. This gave rise to modernization and technological development, which justifies the actual leading role of the Company in the field.
Opening up to new markets and having to face the daily demands of new customers have given Piero and Massimo a high level of experience, always available both to their customers and collaborators.

Activities: Engineering and manufacturing of tools and tooling equipment, CNC milled parts and limited series parts. Carbon fiber tools, big lay-up tools, infusion tools, bonding tools, stretching tools and trimming tools, compression moulds, master models, drilling jigs.

The materials used are: Carbon fibers, aluminium, stainless steel, composite material, new testing materials.

Industries: Aeronautics and aerospace, Automotive, Marine and boat building, Racing.



Technical division: it is equipped with the most modern and efficient working tools for designing and 3D complex-shape modelling.
Since 1986 the Company has introduced the first CAD/CAM integrated system based on PC 286 connected in DNC, as well as a CNC machine with N.C. FIDIA controls. Our development has been constant ever since and today our Technical Division offers: 8 workstations CATIA V4.2.2, 10 workstations CATIA V5 R12 – R16, 2 workstations WORKNC.

Workshop: The first N.C. machine was purchased in 1986, thus opening new horizons for the Company in response to the demands of the increasing market. The new designs and project methods, the time saving and the product quality are all of primary importance, which implies that every Company Division is equipped with the most suitable and updated instruments to meet the market demands.
As for the Technical Division, where the hardware and software are the latest available on the market, N.C. machines carry out the processing in the Workshop. Production too has several N.C. machines working at high speed and carrying out complex tasks of large dimensions 8000 x 2500 x 1500.
Apart from the machinery, the Workshop is equipped with an internal network linked up to the Technical Division and guaranteeing the direct transfer of data to the N.C. machines.

Composite department: In 2002 the Firm introduced a new machinery in the composite material sector, thus arranging a vast area where modern machines and plants for the manufacturing of the equipment of such materials are installed. 4 new autoclaves have been installed, with a diameter to 2800 mm and 6 meters long. The pressure and the temperature are entirely computer-controlled. It is possible to have automatic ventilation of the bags, a continual programmed recording of the internal temperature, the pressure, the specific local temperature and the vacuum of every single bag; reports of machine repairs and alarm process on request. A quality check report related to each variable of the above-mentioned items available. Nitrogen pressurizing. Clean room Class 5000 with a surface of about 300 sqm including a dedicated area for automatic cut (Lectra Vector 2500). 3 refrigereted compartments, detaching material dedicated area with closed-off cell under forced ventilation, postcure oven with internal dimensions 1000x 1000 x 1000, cycle monitored by programmer and paper recording and max temperature 350°C.



Testing room CMM: with Dea Delta, Dea global SP CMM and with Laser Tracker LTD700 is possible to made dimentional control for each object and every dimension.

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