Industrias Guidi's 60th Anniversary

INDUSTRIAS GUIDI
We have fulfilled six decades of great challenges and not less achievements. Even
so, 2020 - the year of our sixtieth anniversary - will be the year we will remember
because of the Covid pandemic.
It is the year in which we have lost our freedoms, the most precious thing that
human beings have. We have had to adapt to new forms of work, of socialization,
of mobilization. We have been distant from our loved ones, we have celebrated
events in solitude.
I cannot say that it has been the most difficult year for the company. In 60 years,
we have suffered many crises, but this has undoubtedly been the most difficult
one to manage.
As a company we have faced completely new situations, such as enduring two full
months without producing and without revenues.
Fortunately, our main client is Toyota, which, thanks to its long-term vision and its
export-oriented business, quickly resumed production.
The next decade will be as or more challenging than the one that has passed.
Everything we have achieved so far gives us the necessary experience to continue
innovating, improving and adapting to the avalanche of changes that will be
required.
When we started working with Toyota we had to make a very profound change,
especially in the plant. Learn and incorporate the TPS, adopt Kaizen as daily task,
work with minimum stocks, focus strongly on safety and quality. It was not easy,
there was a lot of resistance to change and the process was slow.
Today these processes are part of our daily lives, they flow normally. These
learnings, which were arduous, give us the tools for the future. The changes will
be vertiginous: digitization, automation and innovation are the way forward. We
must have our minds open to curiosity, to new paradigms, to listen and learn.
Those who know everything will never learn.
We are proud to have been pioneers in incorporating women into our production
process at the Zárate plant. I hope that soon we can also do it in Burzaco.
It has been very satisfying to be able to offer all fathers fifteen days of paternity
leave. It is essential for fathers to have more days than those established by law in
order to better reconcile work obligations with family.
I fully trust that we will manage to make all the necessary changes to continue
being successful and to be able to go hand in hand with Toyota’s next projects.
I believe in the values, strength and commitment of the Guidi team to continue
working together, always with dialogue and harmony, in pursuit of a better future.
Janet Guidi
Industrias Guidi President
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