Arag: new factory in Argentina
Arag in Rubiera in the Reggio Emilia Province, specializing in the manufacture of spraying accessories and the field of precision farming, inaugurated a new factory in Argentina in March. Taking part in the ceremony marking the opening of the plant, in Rosario, Santa Fe, were the President of Argentina Maurizio Macrì and Argentine authorities including the Minister of Internal Affairs Rogerio Frigelio, Agroindustria Minister Ricardo Buryale, Production Minister Francisco Cabrera, Modernization Minister Andrès Ibarra, and Labor Minister Jorge Triaca, as well as the ministry secretary Martin Etchegoyen, as well as the governor the Province of Santa Fe, Miguel Lifschitz. At the end of the ceremony, Macrì took a tour of the new facility extending over 5,000 square meters under cover with avant-garde production lines and technologies geared to various types of products, lines for the assembly of control valves, quality control, a research laboratory, a trial area and solar panels for rational lighting in the work environment. According to Giovanni Montorsi, the president of the Italian group in Argentina for the past twenty-five years, Arag’s new quarters are only the start of forming a local pole of production facilities acting as a nerve center for marketing Arag products in the Mercosur South American economic organization and the United States. Arag, founded in 1976, operates two plants in Italy and, other than Argentina, has branches in Australia, Brazil, Bolivia and Uruguay. The manufacturer’s catalogue runs to 3,600 products distributed through a sales network in 110 countries around the world employing a workforce of 450. The group reports annual turnover of € 70 million, 6% invested in research each year, and looks to doubling sales in the close term thanks to new industry development policies put in place.
