Ribermold attended the event FAKUMA that held in Friedrichshafen, Germany, from October 17th to 21st, 2017. This is one of the most important events of the sector and allows a strong exposure for the Portuguese industry, and Ribermold could not help but participate.In this event, we presented all our services and some of our most emblematic products in the area of molds and injection molding, responding to the needs of customers, from conception idea to execution of the part
To celebrate its 30 years of existence, Ribermold organized a tour to the Douro River for the whole team. This was a social opportunity for the team to relax in a convivial atmosphere, setting aside their daily work of molds and injection molding, and to celebrate this striking date of the company they belong to.
For the 4th edition of the Week Leiria IN - Industry Week, Ribermold was invited to receive 50 young students, secondary finalists from all over the country. To allow them to understand the industrial reality in Marinha Grande, Mr. Ribeiro was invited to present his professional career as an inspiration for all the students. The event was held at the Building Resinagem in Marinha Grande.
On March 30th, Ribermold was visited by Mr. Robert Sherman, ambassador of the United States to Portugal, taking into consideration the close business relationship with the US market.
Organized by the National Mold Industry Association Cefamol, this visit enabled to reinforce the importance of the sector to the business community in Marinha Grande and also in the industrial world.
Mr. Robert Sherman acknowledged Marinha Grande as a model to the rest of Europe and the world in this industry, highlighted the role of small and medium-sized companies in this business cluster. The same opinion was shared by the Secretary of State for European Affairs, Margarida Marques.
Project reference: Centro-02-0853-FEDER-015015
Main purpose: Strengthening the competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises
Intervention region: Centre of Portugal
Beneficiary entity: Ribermold, Lda
Date of approval: 14-04-2016
Date of beginning: 01-10-2015
Date of completion: 07-06-2017
Total eligible cost: €1.329.512,11
EU financial support: ERDF (FEDER) €797.707,27
Project synthesis:
Ribermold intends to reinforce its competitive benefits at a time when the company has reached the limit of its productive capacity. The project Inov4Riber will reinforce and enhance the production capacity, achieved through several innovations at product level, process, marketing and organization. These activities will revolutionise Ribermold's technological productive area capacity through integrated technologies, at “lean manufacturing” methods and at product development levels, which will allow to simplify processes and uniform working languages. These innovations will increase productivity and technological capacity, in new product releases having supported by a set of organizational innovations and marketing tools, the latter ones being extremely valuable for the company to produce new products for the most demanding markets.
