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News Release from: Giuliani Division, Igmi SpA
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 10 September 2002
Building up a machining business in
Brazil
Over 46 Giuliani machines are operated today by a Brazilian customer that originally left a one-man business in Italy to start anew in Brazil.
Luigi Papaiz is a Furlan from Sesto al Reghena (Pordenone) who, like so many of his countrymen, decided in 1952 to leave Italy, still in the throes of the post-WWII economic crisis, to seek his fortune in South America Leaving with his own small workshop, a lathe, a milling machine and some other pieces of equipment, but most importantly an eagerness to work and a remarkable sense of business, Luigi Papaiz built in Brazil over 50 years of activity a group that today employs 1,000 workers
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 28 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The group, through its five member companies, operates in a wide field of applications; from locks to aluminium doors and windows, right through to agriculture for the food industry.
Papaiz is in fact today one of the leading South-American names in the production of hi-tech, high-quality locks, keys and padlocks, sold in more than 40 countries.
Since the early years of his business - years that, as Papaiz himself recalls, were fraught with difficulties - the company has always focused on quality products, achieved through the purchase of only the finest high-technology machines and equipment.
The encounter with Giuliani took place in 1961, when Papaiz bought three key milling machines, the first set of what would be a long series of machines.
Today the Brazilian company boasts no less than 46 Giuliani machines, including 14 plug broaching machines and 13 key bitting machines.
Papaiz can indeed be considered IEMCA's best Brazilian customer, given that 40 IEMCA bar feeders are currently installed in the Diadema factory near Sao Paulo, a site of 78,000m2, of which 30,000 covered.
Papaiz, who has been awarded the title of Cavaliere del Lavoro and Cavaliere di Gran Croce by the Italian State, has always maintained strong ties with his land of origin, as the logo designed to commemorate his 50 years in Brazil shows: a yellow and green Brazilian flag that merges into the red of the Italian tricolour.
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