SCAIP S.p.A, Italy, discusses how the company’s padding machine line has been improved over the course of two decades.
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CAIP S.p.A is an Italian OEM manufacturer that has been designing and producing heavy machinery and equipment for over 60 years. The company was founded in 1958 as a service, maintenance, and repair shop for agricultural machines, specialising in crawler machines usually branded FIAT. As a result of the knowledge and know-how gathered by the firm in the heavy equipment machinery sector, partnerships with large Italian infrastructure construction companies emerged starting in the 1970s. These partnerships with large EPC companies such as SAIPEM and SICIM led SCAIP to begin manufacturing custom machinery and equipment, especially for the construction of pipelines. After years of experience obtained in this sector through these partnerships, SCAIP then began in the early 1990s to develop and engineer its own line of machinery aimed at the construction of pipelines. The first machines made by SCAIP that had been fully designed and manufactured in-house were the pipe bending machines available to the market by 1991. This was quickly followed by the conversion kits that SCAIP started offering in 1992 to convert regular mechanically winched pipelayers into hydraulic winch powered pipelayers, a product that increased SCAIP’s brand reputation and recognition significantly. To date, over 1000 of these kits have been fabricated and installed by SCAIP, demonstrating the popularity of the product. Another product fully developed, designed and manufactured in-house are the padding machines which SCAIP started manufacturing in the late 1990s. These introduced a new machine design compared to the standard in the industry, also proving to be a success
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