درباره سازنده
The name Cachapuz may have its origins in 1694. There are documents proving its antiquity, such as a page of the former "Almanak of Braga and its District" from 1895, which mentions the ‘Cachapuz Commercial House' alluding to this ancestry and performing the trade of "cutlery, weapons and scales", as well as a daring investment in importing goods.
The company started its industrial production in 1920 with wooden decimal scales, called R1 in Rua dos Chãos, in the historical centre of the Archbishop city, where it was kept until mid 60s. In 1934, the first weighbridge for weighing trucks was manufactured.
Since then, the company has made history in Portugal by manufacturing and developing weighing tools and solutions, reaching the lead of the internal market in the mid last century and exporting to several markets. The business connections with Angola, Mozambique, Cuba, The Ivory Coast and North African countries were striking for the company's dynamics; in addition to the settled plants in Azores and Madeira. In Portugal, all the big national manufacturers were supplied by Cachapuz, such as the old Traffic Police and the railway network.
In the mid 80s, Cachapuz has supplied all post offices and national airports. This decade was still noticeable by the conception and manufacture of the first Portuguese electronic scale. The year of 1993 is one of the company's landmarks as the year of the release of the first automation solution for industrial weighing processes, with the C93, the first equipment to be released in the market of bulk weighing.
In 2002, Cachapuz moved to modern premisses in Sobreposta Industrial Park, in Braga and embarked on the reinforcement in the Engineering and Innovation Department through a sustained and ongoing commitment in technological research and development.
In 2011, the process of total acquisition of the Cachapuz capital that had begun in 1997 by Bilanciai Group, one of the world's largest groups dedicated to weighing was complete. The decision to join the Bilanciai Group came from the need of a technological evolution in weighing equipments and the strategy to be incorporated into a reference group in the industry, to foster the company's internationalization into other markets, apart from the traditional Cachapuz export destinations, as Angola and Mozambique.
With this integration it was also possible to profit and boost the I&D investment as reinforcement of the strategic internationalization vision and obtain recognition as a centre for technological expertise in software and automation solutions of the Bilanciai Group.
The effort of recent years was acknowledged in 2012 with the award "Excellence at Work" in the category of medium entreprises in the industrial and energy field.
اطلاعات تماس
Cachapuz Bilanciai Group
Address
Parque Industrial de Sobreposta
Apartado 2012
4701-952 BRAGA
PORTUGAL
Telephone:
+ 351 253 603 480
Fax:
+ 351 253 603 485
Contact Center:
808 202 405
Email:
info@cachapuz.com