1st Quarter 2005 - Berco S.p.A
1st Quarter 2005 - Berco S.p.A
1st Quarter 2005 - Berco S.p.A
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1997<br />
• <strong>1st</strong> January: <strong>Berco</strong> celebrates Giovanni Bertoni's 10 years as Managing Director.<br />
• New range of heavy duty track chains for D4H-D7H class dozers previewed at<br />
the Intermat 97 Fair.<br />
• 20th-22nd February: <strong>1st</strong> <strong>Berco</strong> Asian Pacific dealers' convention held in<br />
Singapore.<br />
• 24th-25th March: <strong>1st</strong> <strong>Berco</strong> American dealers' convention held in Orlando.<br />
• 30th September: historic target of 150,000 tons reached.<br />
• New logistics and shipment department inaugurated (16,000 m 2 ) in Copparo.<br />
• <strong>1st</strong> January: Fils, in Busano (Turin), with 142 employees, becomes the 3rd<br />
factory in the <strong>Berco</strong> group.<br />
• March: <strong>Berco</strong> goes to Munich for Bauma 98, the biggest fair in the world in for<br />
earth-moving equipment, and launches BOPIS, the <strong>Berco</strong> Online Product<br />
Information System, to take over from the classic catalogues that helped to make<br />
<strong>Berco</strong> famous all over the world.<br />
• June '95: the inauguration of the new circular ring rolling mill, the only one<br />
of its kind (with 4 spindles), puts <strong>Berco</strong> in a leading position in the idler<br />
groups market (thanks also to the new idler line in Castelfranco).<br />
• On the12th of July <strong>Berco</strong> of America inaugurates its 2nd logistics centre in<br />
Jamestown, North Carolina (USA). The centre, covering a surface area of 6,000<br />
m 2 , is able to supply <strong>Berco</strong>'s OEM customers in the South Eastern United States<br />
on a just-in-time basis.<br />
• <strong>1st</strong> October: merger agreement signed between the German companies Thyssen<br />
AG and Krupp AG (<strong>Berco</strong> stockholders), to form ThyssenKrupp.<br />
1998<br />
• February: building work starts on the maxi press unit.<br />
• 27th February: The Engineering Faculty of the University of Bologna awards an<br />
honorary degree in Engineering Management to Giovanni Bertoni, <strong>Berco</strong>'s<br />
Managing Director since 1987.<br />
• <strong>Berco</strong> previews its new complete D11 dozer undercarriage (chain pitch 317.5<br />
mm) at Samoter 99, and lays the basis for its new BMP division. Also at Samoter,<br />
on the 7th, 8th and 9th of March <strong>Berco</strong> holds its World Dealers' convention.<br />
• October: inauguration of new automatic painting line for track chains with<br />
shoes. The new roller shell heat treatment line enters into production in the same<br />
period.<br />
• 6th November: <strong>Berco</strong> receives “Supplier of the year” award from Komatsu UK.<br />
1999<br />
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BN41 > January <strong>2005</strong>
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