MecVel Srl an Italian manufacturing company situated in Bologna producing mechanical components in the field of linear motion, since 22 years. The production includes linear actuators (electric cylinders), screw jacks (mechanical actuators) and gearboxes suitable for both home-line / medical applications (such as grass cutting tractors, community kitchen equipments, wellness, floor washing machines...) and industrial ones (packaging machines, snow cannons, food processing machines, wood working and ceramic industries, fluid-handling equipments...): All these products are shown on the website www.mecvel.com where 2D / 3D drawings can also be downloaded. All products are designed by company-employed engineers: This gives high flexibility and possibilities to customise and to design new products according to specific applications and the development of new solutions. The wide product range, the flexibility of solutions on request, the complete and continuously upgraded structure, provide a basis for the company`s primary goal: complete Customer´s satisfaction In 1998 MecVel was one of the first Companies certified by DNV according ISO 9001. In 2005 it got the ISO 9001 – Vision 2000 upgrade. This shows MecVel`s strong prospective attitude to improve products and the service with all available funds. More than 45 people inside and several external sales engineers work hard to achieve the planned fast growing budgets of every year: This year´s turnover will reach 8 million Euro. All employees are periodically trained on different topics according to everyone’s job (foreign languages, web-editing, CAD-drawing, quality…). Beeing the marketleader in the domestic market and well represented, by own subsidiaries (like in France) and distributors all over Europ and in most industrialised nations around the world proudly can be loocked upon a big number of important customers such as TETRAPACK, POMAGALSKI, JOHNSON DIVERSEY, RENAULT, FIAT, PHILIPS, DELL, GENERAL ELECTRIC and many others. MecVel company`s main part of the production is the assembly. This means parts for incoming orders are taken off the huge stock that mainly is produced by subcontractors after MecVel specifications. The high quality standards in means of materials used, selection of suppliers and production cotroll is garanteed by the high standard internal Quality System. In order to provide the customers with urgent prototypes or urgent standrd actuators with specific features there is a well equipped department with machine-tools in the company. Linear actuators and screw jacks are very often integrated in more structured or sophisticated applications and that´s why MecVel’s standard models can all be customized in a great number of different versions. The customer is supported throughout all the project-phases in order to select the best solution of technical and economical points of view. MecVel`s motto is not just to supply an "item" but to accompany the customer from the selection to the propper use of the actuators and srewjacks. MecVel technical department never stops looking foreward creating new products and solutions. So on the Hannover Exhibition in April 2009, the just born actuators ALI4 will be presented: 3 actuators in one!!! 3 different versions of the same actuator will be available to suite different application requirements in terms of dimensions, speed (up to 250mm/sec), duty (up to 100%) and load (up to 10kN). If you need a partner for actuators - MecVel is the one you are looking for.