Miller Magazine Issue 107 / November 2018

71 MILLER / NOVEMBER 2018 TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM • Engineering: We keep ourself yearly updated in new designs rules, in new solutions able to improve sto- rage solutions and new products developed. It is impor- tant to know we are not only a manufacturing company but also and engineering company. • Price: We are very aware about the market needs, the level of competition and the volume of investment our projects require. That is why we are quite well posi- tioned in price worldwide. • Employees&Company culture: Definitely our team is the pillar of our success. Can you give us some information about your pro- duction capacity and facilities? How many people do you employ? Our company had to move 3 years ago to a new facility. It was as a result of the growth of the company both in number of employees and turnover. We are still in Cordo- ba city but in a newer and better developed industrial area. The new facility counts with a new office building with 1.040 m2 and new factory for silos and catwalks of 10.000 m2. Beside of this we have independent fac- tories for grain handling equipment with 5.700 m2, fac- tory for the production of metal structures of 20.100 m2 (bucket elevators towers, feed mill buildings, etc.) The number of employees of Silos Cordoba Bulk Sto- rage division is 87. There are many companies in grain storage and handling industry. What distinguishes you from others? Coming back to our previous point, we emphasized in quality, engineering, price, customer service and com- pany culture, but going a step further on that comment I can add: • Silos Cordoba as engineering company: Market trends and technical solutions are evolving to the figure of Main Contractor- a single supplier able to do comple- te project integration and management. In this point we count with more than 20 years of experience. In relati- on with this is, and an another important different with other companies, it is the fact that we are manufactu- res of a wider range of products: storage silos, structu- res, catwalks, supports, handling equipment, electrical panel, programming&software solution and supervisi- on&erection team. • Quality: We are transparent about our technical in- formation and our customer are always aware of this strength because we use higher steel strength, better galvanization and newer designing rules than other companies. • Team: Highly skill and well-motivated team looking forward to face new projects, new challenges. • Flexible: Thank to the combination of new facilities, better process automation and the team, we achieve to have shorter delivery times. Where do you export your products to? How many countries are you exporting to right now? We export our products up to 52 countries located in Central&South America, Europe, Africa and Asia. As of to- day the only markets we have not yet penetrate are North America and Australia. These areas are in our strategic plan and it is something that will happen in the future. You export your products to many countries. It ne- eds a solid supply chain. How do you manage this? That is a key process indeed since our production pro- cess start with our suppliers and then continue with the inter-departmental relations. It was not a simple process to reach the level we have nowadays but our stable and moderate growth year by year allowed us to develop our Supply Department. We count with a department to do this task and that team growth day by day looking for improvements in our re- lations with suppliers.