Cembre

Cembre S.p.A. - Italy

Our group headquarters in Brescia

The offices, factory, workshops and services of Cembre comprise a 60.000 m² complex situated in 121.000 m² of pleasant grounds, where a rational organisation of space has achieved a comfortable, safe and efficient working environment.

In February 1999 Cembre acquired the OELMA company based in Milan, active in the field of electrical materials for over 60 years, while in 2002, GENERAL MARKING srl was constituted in Bergamo, and is active in the sector of industrial printing systems for marking cables and electrical components.

OUR VALUES

Cembre has always promoted essential values within its group. These aspects have influenced the decisions taken over the course of the years, contributing to the construction of a history of more than forty years, shining with success. The Values that Cembre promotes actively within their premises are:

Quality

At Cembre, quality is a long history of success and recognition. Today the company is one of the few Italian businesses to have adjusted and certified its processes according to strict regulatory standards:

The history of quality

Cembre’s quality certification has a history of more than twenty years

Cembre Group Policy

Cembre S.p.A. is constantly committed to pursuing customer satisfaction by combining high quality to protection of the environment and of the health and safety of workers.

Cembre S.p.A. operates to ensure the full satisfaction of its customers and of the users of its products, by meeting their needs and expectations, complying in rigorous fashion both with their real and practical needs and with international and national standards, laws and regulations, in full and constant awareness of the imperative need to limit negative impacts on the environment and to guarantee user safety.

Cembre S.p.A. therefore directs all its activities at achieving the following primary objectives:

• constant enhancement of the Company Management System
• increase in efficiency and efficacy of process management
• protection of the environment and the prevention of pollution
• careful protection of the health and safety of workers.

Cembre S.p.A. pursues these objectives through strict compliance with all provisions of national and EU laws on environmental protection, accident prevention and occupational health, never neglecting the research of technological and organisational innovations as factors bringing further benefit to the Company as well as its customers and users.

Quality Assessment

Since 1990 Cembre SpA has been assessed for the Certification of its Quality Management System.

The Cembre Group is nowadays certified by Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance according to ISO 9001:2015; it is applicable to:

• Design, manufacture and sales of electrical connectors and associated tools, cable accessories, marking systems, equipment and products for railway applications.
• Tools for pressed joints for water, gas, steam, waste and HVAC and related accessories.
• Repairing, inspection and calibration of equipment and tools.

The Quality Management System Certification relates to the headquarters in Brescia, the Italian regional offices in Bologna, Florence, Monza, Padua, Turin and the subsidiary companies in Great Britain, France, Spain, Germany and United States.

The certification of the Quality Management System allows Cembre to guarantee the continuous supply of high quality products and services meeting our customers’ requirements. This ensures ever increasing levels of customer satisfaction and the management of risks and opportunities within all Cembre Group markets.

The importance of quality at Cembre is demonstrated by the history of its Quality Management System certification which is now over twenty years old. The main stages of this system are recorded below:

• July 2010
  Certification update to the 2008 edition of EN ISO 9001
• December 2008
  Modification of the field of application: Design and manufactue, production, marketing of electrical connectors and tools for their installation, accessories for cables, systems for industrial labelling, equipment and products for railway applications. Repair, refurbishment and calibration of equipment and tools.
• December 2003
  Certification update to the 2000 edition of EN ISO 9001
• June 2000
  Certification, inside the multi-site certification of the Cembre group, of the OELMA company in San Giuliano Milanese
• May 1999
  Multi-site certification of the Cembre group, a single Quality Management System for the offices in Brescia, the regional offices in Turin, Milan, Padua, Bologna & Rome and for the subsidiary companies in England, France, Spain, Germany, USA, Norway. Field of application: Design
  and manufacture, production, marketing of accessories for cables, electrical connectors and their equipment. Repair, refurbishment and calibration of equipment. A uniform way of managing the processes, different ways to achieve satisfaction so as to adapt to specific market requirements but with common rules that make the Cembre "style" recognisable
• May 1995
  Certification update to the 1994 edition of EN ISO 9001
• December 1992
  Certification update according to EN 29001:1987 with the field of application "Designing and manufacturing accessories for cables, electrical connectors and related tools." The Quality Management System encompasses all company processes, including design and manufacture, in order to facilitate uniform management of all activities and objectives 
• October 1991
  In response to customer demands, the UK subsidiary company Cembre Ltd obtains certification of its Quality System according to BS5750:Part 2:1987 – ISO 9002:1987 – EN 29002:1987, field of application "Storing electrical connectors and related tools. Repairing and revising tools"
• December 1990
  First certification pursuant to BS5750: Part 2: 1987 – ISO 9002:1987 – EN 29002:1987 with
  the field of application "Production of pre-insulated and bare copper connectors and terminals."  One of the first companies in the world within the electromechanical sector to obtain certification according to one of the standards in the ISO 9000 group. The certification of the quality management system is carried out with an internationally renowned assessor such as Lloyd’s Register of Quality Assurance as a guarantee for the foreign clients who requested Quality Systems certification at the time