Published 12/22/2020

Italy-based Belotti SpA launches Belotti America

Belotti America, located in Irving, Texas, marks the intention of enhancing Belotti SpA’s presence, while supporting and growing its customer base in North America.

Workforce Development

Edited by: Grace Stubbins

Senior Managing Editor, CompositesWorld and Products Finishing

Belotti SpA (Suisio) the Italian manufacturer of CNC machine tools, announces the opening of Belotti America, Inc., which will be headquartered next to DFW Airport in Irving, Texas, U.S. Following the successful launch of Belotti Deutschland (Germany) and the celebration of its 40^th anniversary of designing and manufacturing three- and five-axis CNC centers, the new subsidiary represents the intention of enhancing Belotti’s presence, while supporting and growing its customer base in North America. The new branch also marks Belotti’s consistent strategic evolution for key markets, such as gradually building a direct presence beside the preexisting locally-represented distribution model.

“Our new location is perfectly centered to serve all of our North American customers and prospects,” explains Loris Valsecchi, sales director of Belotti SpA, “and with DFW Airport being one of the busiest airports in the world, we will be well positioned to serve our customers efficiently for parts or services when the need arises.”

The facility will reportedly reinforce the Sales, Services and Installation Support in this market, and will include a showroom for demonstrations and trainings to customers, sales representatives, field service engineers and apprentices. “We have great expectations for the American market, especially in aerospace, where we already have a good history,” continues Loris Valsecchi. “Through our direct presence, we aim at becoming an effective system supplier, not only proposing milling machine tools, but actually bringing the extensive portfolio of our advanced solutions dedicated to aeronautical applications.”

Most of the machines that are built by Belotti today are medium- to large-sized five-axis machining centers and are used to mill, trim and drill composites, light alloys, plastics and tooling and modeling board. Belotti’s range also includes medium- to large-sized three-axis machining centers, often equipped with glass scales to further enhance their long-term performance. Applications include machining aluminum and technical plastics sheets for packaging, aerospace and transportation applications as well as other mechanical engineering components and measurement tools.

“Reliability has been a cornerstone of the Belotti philosophy from day one,” says Todd Hammer, president and CEO of the newly established subsidiary. “It really defeats the purpose to design and build a highly accurate machine tool that can provide an excellent surface finish, only to have it fail prematurely. Therefore, we include features such as pressurized bellow covers and effective dust collection on well-engineered machines to provide the best of both worlds.”

Building on Belotti’s 40-years of success, Belotti America will open its doors with an enviable position in the aerospace, automotive, marine, space and transportation sectors. Through prior relationships with distributors in Canada, Mexico and the United States, Belotti says it already has an installed base in these markets and has plans to expand on it. The new subsidiary will follow the Belotti path with the ultimate goal of helping existing and new customers increase their productivity and profitability. “Our founder, Luciano Belotti, constantly stressed to us that we must anticipate trends in the industries that we serve rather than follow them,” says Bruno Mazzoleni, product sales manager, further explaining that “this has proven to be a win-win philosophy for us and our customers.”