Our departments

When entering the Sobinco building, you will instantly notice that this family run company loves modern art. The reception hall resembles an art gallery and invites you to snoop around. It breaks the ice and makes you feel at ease.
When you present yourself at the reception counter, you wil be warmly welcomed by our staff.

Sobinco has an extensive testing facility where tests are continuously conducted on new as well as on existing products. In particular, these are cycle and strength tests on windows and doors. This enables us to test our products and window systems for their durability in combination with our customers’ systems. 

In addition, the windows and doors are also subjected to corrosion-resistance tests, break-in tests, and air, wind and water tests that simulate the most extreme weather conditions. All tests are conducted according to the latest European or country-specific guidelines and quality standards.

In the department for gravity casting of aluminum alloys, we use 5 melting furnaces and 5 casting machines.

Here are mainly made handles and pivots for pivoting windows. In addition, they also cast the door handles and other handles for turning windows and tilt-turn windows. The cast pieces also undergo some post-processing operations such as grinding or polishing.

Injected and sawn parts are deburred and the sharp edges are removed. The combination of grindstones, soap and water and the high frequency at which the vats vibrate, causes a spinning movement so that the chips spin around – and thus polish – the pieces. With this technique, we obtain parts with the right roughness. This is important for the following processes, such as powder-coating or assembling.

Anodising consists of the artificial application of a corrosion-resistant layer which can be coloured. This is done by having a direct current flow through the piece in an acid bath, which produces a hard, scratch-resistant layer on the surface. We are able to anodise profiles up to 6 meters and small parts in various colours.

The material that Sobinco processes is a zinc alloy.  It is melted at a temperature of 430°C. The molten material is then pumped into the mould by means of a hydraulic-driven cylinder. After the injection, the pieces are manually or automatically broken off the sprues in the spinning drums next to the machines.

The department has a total of 12 machines. IIn full production, we’re able to inject an average of 100,000 pieces per day and we process 550,000 kg of zinc alloy per year.

In the CNC milling department, we have 8 machines to further finish cast or injected parts or aluminum profiles and to make variants based on customer specifications. We do this by milling, drilling and/or tapping away parts. The pieces are placed in specially designed devices. Then, the machine is started up and runs through a pre-programmed cycle. Thanks to such high-tech machines and our calibrated devices, we can do precise series in this department.

Each year, more than a million pieces are processed.

Sobinco has 45 lathes to lathe and mill complex pieces. We start with 3-metre long rods and make nearly all of our non-standard pins, rivets (small axles), small wheels and screws for our products. The materials that we use are diverse: stainless steel, aluminum, special lathing steel, brass, etc. 

In total, this department produces some 550 different pieces, at an average of 50,000 pieces per day.

In addition to production planning and management, the quality service regularly performs measurements on semi-finished products, incoming materials and parts which include size measurements, layer thickness, material hardness, corrosion formation, and so on.

All of these measurements are important in keeping the high quality of our products at a constant level.

More than 5,000 kinds of semi-finished and finished products go to the warehouse. Large stocks combined with swift order processing, gives us the ability to deliver in very short timeframes. Every day, a huge number of Sobinco products head off to all parts of the world.

Our IT specialists are responsible for a solid and secure infrastructure, fitting devices and applications and focus on a service-minded organisation. They implement, optimise and monitor the ERP-system and PLM & CRM package to ensure a smooth operation.

As a strategic partner to the management, the HR department translates the company goals to an HR strategy concerning staffing, profiling and adapting the configuration of the company.