GIMA SPA – ABOUT US

Since 1986, a story made of innovation, experience and quality for metalworking.

Gima S.p.A. Joint Stock Company is a highly qualified firm operating in the metalworking sector, specialized in turning and sheet metal stamping. Gima was founded as a partnership and small artisan firm in 1986 in Castelfidardo, Italy.

Thanks to a determined and constant policy of profit reinvestment, Gima also focused on stamping and die making.

Today Gima operates in two facilities in Recanati. One entirely addressed to turning, grinding, milling ad complementary operations, the other for cold forming and with a tooling shop for die construction.

A company unique in its kind, able to combine the technologies of stamping and turning, in order to create assemblies and parts that have features of both processes,

1960

1986

Gima was founded as a partnership and small artisan firm in 1986 in Castelfidardo in the Province of Ancona, by Giansante Montanari and Mauro Montanari brothers, thanks to the experience acquiried since 1960 with their father, Leandro.

Thanks to a determined and constant policy of profit reinvestment, research and modernization, Gima increases the number of its staff and orders, attaining an annual turnover of more than six billion Lira, laying the cornerstones of Gima’s development in the years ahead.

1996

The company becomes a Limited Liability Company and is transferred to Recanati (Macerata Province) onto an area of 8000 sq.m. In the same year Gima purchases
its first anthropomorphic robot for the CNC lathes.

1997

In 1997 Gima obtains UNI EN ISO 9002:1994 certification from the ICIM. In the same year the Company acquires its second robot for the numeric control lathes.

1998

Gima buys an adjacent plot of 9.000 sq.m. and a wire EDM machine to produce its own tools and dies.

1999

In order to improve its production management, the company implements an automatic vertical warehouse for the storage of its products.

2000

Gima becomes a Joint Stock Company.

2000-2002

Gima purchases an industrial plant of 5.500 sq.m. on an area of 20.000 sq.m.

The restructuring and modernization of this second production factory is completed and the stamping department and workshop with tooling laboratory are transferred to the new facility.

2003

UNI EN ISO 9002:1994 certification is adapted to the new international
standard UNI EN ISO 9001:2000.
2006
The stamping and die making department is improved with the purchase of presses of up to 315t and the introduction of additional wire EDM and work stations.The turning department is further developed and modernised with new CNC
machines.

2012

The certification is adapted to UNI EN ISO 9001:2008

2014-2015

Gima purchases five new 9-axis lathes for turning operations and three new presses for the blanking department, including a 315t toggle press for coining and drawing.

2017

Turning deparment is enhanced with four new swiss-type lathes Star SR-20RIV type A e Star SB-20R type G

2019

The tooling department is expanded with a new Sodick ALC800G wire EDM machine.

TODAY

Gima today

Gima has more than 120 lathes, half of which are CNC lathes, as well as 20 grinders, 10 transfer ma- chines and 10 rollers. The stamping and die making department has a machine fleet of 28 presses, 10 CNC working centers and 6 wire EDM machines.