ABOUT US
Our History
Sapa - the One-Shot Company - è superior auto parts always.
WE COLLABORATE WITH GREAT COMPANIES
An industrial group that begins with the first step taken by Angelo Affinita, a man born and raised in a small suburb in southern Italy. It all starts with artisanal work, the “handmade,” foundation of Made in Italy.
I want to share a small but significant anecdote.
Angelo's father made handcrafted fixtures and fittings. Unique and inimitable pieces, real small works of art.
But it was the intuition and ingenuity of Angelo Affinita that radically changed his father's work and the future of SAPA. In fact, he convinced his father to produce window frames in series, optimizing work processes and production. From manual craftsmanship to the perfection of serial production.
The patented One-Shot® method, if you will, has its beginning right there.
The extraordinary human, technical and entrepreneurial skills of Angelo Affinita and his wife Rosanna Dora De Lucia have transformed an artisan business into a consolidated and growing industrial reality, with 13 plants in Italy and Europe, over 2,300 employees and a turnover of 300 million.
Today SAPA is an Italian industrial group dedicated to injection molding for the automotive sector, with direct supply to the major Car Makers in Italy and abroad.
Key Facts
WE COLLABORATE WITH GREAT COMPANIES
13 FACTORIES
3 South Italy / 3 North Italy / 2 Spain / 1 Poland / 1 Netherlands / 1 Estonia / 1 Morocco / 1 China
3 VARNISHING INSTALLMENTS
> 200 INJECTION MOULDING PRESS MACHINES
From 50 to 4.000 tons
> 200 INJECTION MOULDING PRESS MACHINES
29 PATENTS ONE-SHOT® METHOD
4.5% TURNOVER RE-INVESTED IN R&D
+2300 PEOPLE
GREEN INVESTMENTS
10.000 m2 OF MODULES in 5 plant 4.500 t OF co2 Avoided 8.000.000 kwh PRODUCED
85.500.000 COMPONENTS PER YEAR
29 PATENTS ONE-SHOT® METHOD
M&A FOCUS
Investment banking strong relationships
They chose us
OUR CUSTOMERS
Our History
FROM ITS FOUNDATION TO TODAY
Rosanna De Lucia President of SAPA, was awarded by the President of the Italian Republic with the title of Cavaliere del Lavoro, an Italian honor bestowed on leading figures in the industry "who have proved to be singularly worthy"
2019
One Level Up
SAPA becomes Superior Automotive Parts and Application.
A precise focusing method, with the aim of taking injection molding for the automotive sector to a higher level, with 2 main product families: engine area and interiors car.
SAPA becomes part of the ELITE project of Borsa Italiana, the new 21,000 m2 plant in Poland in Sosnowiec is inaugurated and turnover grows to almost 130 million.
Expansion up to the USA
From Italy to Eastern Europe to the USA.
SAPA begins a scouting operation thanks to the support of the Chamber of Commerce and the UK Trade & Investments dept.
SAPA's international expansion project adds a prestigious and important element: in fact, it becomes part of the American Chamber of Commerce in Italy.
It's Jeep time
After Fiat and Volkswagen, it's time for Jeep: SAPA wins the order for the new SUV from the American company, with an increase in turnover of around 30 million euros.
And that's not all: the first assignment of activities by Volkswagen Group.
Continuous growth also requires new spaces, a new plant is acquired in Melfi (PZ).
Volkswagen Group
Prosegue la crescita nel mercato estero: viene aperto un ufficio commerciale in Germania. Il programma di internazionalizzazione lancia la scalata verso le vette dei giganti.
Growth continues in the foreign market: a sales office is opened in Germany. The internationalization program launches the climb towards the heights of the giants.
SAPA is included in the list of accredited suppliers selected by the Volkswagen Group for the industrial production of plastic components.
The project in Poland starts
It's a crucial year. Angelo Affinita passes away, leaving control of the company to his wife Dora and children Mariangela, Antonio and Giovanni.
At the same time, the wings of the company also spread abroad: the project for growth in Poland, with the new opening of “SAPA Polska”, located in the Tychy area.
SAPA becomes a corporate group
Constant growth over time leads to a reorganization and SAPA becomes a corporate group. From a transfer operation, the PLASTCAUDIO group transfers its industrial branch to the group controlled by Adler Sapa (today, SAPA), thus becoming the holding company of the group that controls SAPA and Robotec.
Fiat group direct suppliers
SAPA becomes a direct supplier of the Fiat group, thanks to the acquisition of a branch of Lucchesi Srl, a company that operates in the plastic material molding sector.
Turnover grows to 40 million euros and the process begins of focus: only the automotive sector, the household appliances business unit is eliminated.
Plastcaudio srl is born
PLASTCAUDIO srl is born. After almost twenty years from the beginning, the time is ripe to start the plastic material molding business. The production is directed to the automotive and household appliances industries. A significant, second step: the turnover will reach 12 million euros in 2004.
