Persico Group receives FCA Supplier Qualitas 2016 award
Every year, FCA recognizes its best suppliers at the Supplier Qualitas Convention held at the Lingotto Conference Centre (Centro Congressi Lingotto) in Turin, Italy. An FCA Supplier Qualitas 2016 award was presented to Persico Group.
Founded in 1976 by Pierino Persico, who has been honoured as an Italian Knight of Labour, Persico Group is an Italian multinational primarily engaged in the automotive, industrial and marine industries. The Group is a full range service provider: from concept to design, engineering and production of prototypes, models, moulds, automation systems and turnkey yachts. In addition, Persico operates in sectors such as aerospace and design. Persico Group has production sites in the USA and China.
Alessandra Persico, managing director of Persico Automotive, receives an FCA Supplier Qualitas 2016 award.
Every year, FCA recognizes its best suppliers at the Supplier Qualitas Convention held at the Lingotto Conference Centre (Centro Congressi Lingotto) in Turin, Italy. An FCA Supplier Qualitas 2016 award was presented to Persico Group.
PERSICO is a new supplier that developed the new EcoCover technology implemented on the Alfa Stelvio Instrument Panel. Persico’s involvement since the beginning of the project has been a winning formula for achieving high product and process quality levels. This good result has been achieved thanks to the close cooperation and support from Persico.”
Persico’s EcoCover technology consists of an innovative spray skin process involving the application of polyurethane coating to create high-quality imitation leather – the ideal material for the manufacture of interior parts, such as dashboards. The faux leather overcomes the traditional limitations of PVC (the material typically used for these applications), improves touch and feel, and ensures great versatility in the design and geometry of finished products.
Alessandra Persico, managing director of Persico Automotive, receives an FCA Supplier Qualitas 2016 award.
FCA chose to invest in the innovative EcoCover technology, because it fully met the objectives of the carmaker’s design and development strategy for its new premium Alfa Romeo models. As pointed out by FCA during the Lingotto award ceremony, Persico Group provided total support to the Italian auto manufacturer, starting from the initial design phases of the Alfa Romeo parts, by delivering integrated transversal service to all the engineering departments involved.
Alessandra Persico, managing director of Persico Automotive, receives an FCA Supplier Qualitas 2016 award.
Persico contributed the know-how of its engineering and R&D departments and participated in the co-design and preliminary engineering work, thus ensuring the technological feasibility of the components at every stage of the manufacturing process. First of all, Persico realized all the aesthetic and functional prototypes needed for the approval of the product and process, according to specifications. Then it supplied FCA with all the tools and equipment needed (moulds and production lines) for the manufacture of the components at its plants, as well as the know-how for efficient and effective use of the equipment.
Now, together with FCA, Persico Group is already developing a new technology for the manufacture of interior parts.
