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About Cerisol
Brief History
| Cerisol was founded in 1912 and operated until 1945
dedicated to the production of miscellaneous electrical
appliances. During the following decades, as a Division of
ElectroCerâmica, Cerisol focused its activity on the production
and distribution of low, medium and high voltage insulators and
cap and pin insulators, which were exclusively sold to the
Portuguese Utility Industry. |
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Over the years Cerisol evolved significantly, and is now much
more focused on the external markets (90% of sales), competing
with larger players in a much broader range of products that
include:
- IEC Solid core Post insulators
- Hollow insulators
- Line insulators
- Traction lines insulators.
A full description of our current main range of products is
included in the “Products” folder in this web site. |
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Key figures
The following key figures refer to December 31, 2005. An update will
be made every year:
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Turnover: |
8.5 million € |
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Number of employees: |
142 |
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Number of tons. processed: |
3,450 |
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Ownership and Management
On July 2004, Cerisol was acquired by a new group of
“independent” investors, for whom the insulator business is “The Core
Business”. Until 2004, Cerisol was “only” a subsidiary of Holding Co´s
with diverse activities, only remotely related with the insulator
business.
- This new context is the driving force behind a transformation
program which encompasses:
- Investing in Product and Process Innovation;
- Focusing on quality and Level of service;
- Investing in new equipment and competencies;
- Partnering with a selected number of Key Clients.
The Company is managed by a small and focused Management Team, which
includes some members of the new shareholder group. As a guiding
principle, Cerisol is more interested in developing long lasting
Partnership type of relationships with a few Key Clients, rather than
being opportunistic and focused on the “Spot Market” and on short term
results. In this context, the following are a few of our Sales and
Service Policies:
- We are interested in, and flexible enough to serve, both large
and small order quantities;
- We believe in “cooperative product development” with our clients
and are therefore willing to work jointly to develop new insulator
designs, which may reduce product costs and/or end user installation
and maintenance costs.
- We also believe in “cooperative market development” and can thus
work with Forecasts, with our key clients, when planning occupancy
of our production resources.
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