Certified excellence: innovation, quality, and safety in production processes and business management to ensure high-level products.
The company located in the southern manufacturing district of the province of Vicenza is synthetically composed of two poles a few dozen meters apart. The historical and main headquarters houses the executive and administrative offices, a technical sales office and a major production area for the production of manifolds and distributors. The second location is from dedicated to the production of piping, bent products and bends for heat exchangers.
CFI products are the result of the company’s constant focus on product quality, cleanliness of processes, technological innovation, workplace safety, compliance with laws and regulations related to quality, safety, environment, and work ethics, while respecting and valuing human resources. They range from manifolds (copper, stainless steel or carbon steel) to connections, from distributors to piping, from exchangers to bends. The materials used are copper and derivatives, stainless steel, carbon steel, and aluminum.
In addition, since 2004 C.F.I. has been certified by an accredited body.
Since 2016, C.F.I has had an integrated system with UNI EN ISO 9001:2015 for the quality scope, UNI EN ISO 14001:2015 for the environmental scope, and UNI ISO 45001:2023 for the health and safety scope, in an integrated system with high-level structure (HLS) as to all ISO standards related to management systems.
The certifying body is Certiquality, a certification body that supports companies in managing quality, environment, safety and social responsibility.
In compliance with the requirements of the new performance standards C.F.I. has analyzed and manages risks by adopting one of the methodologies proposed by the ISO 31010 standard.
Strengths recognized at C.F.I. are:
- commitment of management and the functions involved at all levels
- high degree of computerization of information
- management of skills and training for a high degree of qualification of personnel
- management of production time monitoring
- oversight of management, production and maintenance activities.
ISO 9001:2015 is an international standard for Quality Management Systems (QMS), developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). This standard provides a framework and set of best practices for improving the quality of an organization's products and services, ensuring that they consistently meet the requirements of customers and other stakeholders.
In summary, ISO 9001:2015 helps organizations to:
- Improve customer satisfaction through more efficient processes and higher quality products.
- Increase operational efficiency by reducing waste and optimizing resources.
- Strengthen risk management by identifying and mitigating quality-related risks.
ISO 14001 also based on the PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) cycle, also known as the Deming cycle, which promotes continuous improvement. ISO 14001 certification is not mandatory, but for CFI, which has chosen to adopt it, it is a way to demonstrate its commitment to sustainability by meeting its main requirements:
- Defining an environmental policy: Establishing goals and commitments for environmental management.
- Planning (Plan): Identify environmental aspects and set goals and objectives.
- Implementation (Do): Implement the processes necessary to achieve the goals.
- Verification (Check): Monitor and measure performance against established goals.
- Action (Act): Take action to continuously improve the environmental management system.
Since 2019, CFI has started a study on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of a partial type since it cannot analyze the final destination of products and their disposal. Therefore, the study is a tool for raising awareness and awareness of environmental issues and from an ESG perspective.
UNI ISO 45001:2023 is the first international standard to define minimum standards of good practice for worker protection worldwide.
CFI's common goal with those who have adopted this standard is to provide a safe and healthy work environment, preventing occupational injuries and illnesses, with a view to continuous improvement.
CFI Srl's management is committed to continuous improvement by integrating business growth, quality, environmental respect, and worker safety through a Management System based on ISO 9001, 14001, and 45001 standards.
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Since 2011, C.F.I. has implemented a product traceability system in accordance with the Pressure Equipment Directive PED 2014/68/EU.
The PED issued by the European Community and entered into force on May 30, 2002 (formerly 97/23/EC), which harmonizes the legislation of the "pressure equipment" sector and replaces all previous national regulations, governs the design, manufacture, conformity assessment, equipment and safe installation of pressure equipment.
For this reason, CFI is not able to deliver documentation of the materials and processes used in the construction of the product in accordance with the PED Directive.
The current production scenario, characterized by increasingly extensive and often internationalized supply networks, complex market dynamics, and increasingly stringent regulatory contexts, means that companies face new challenges such as product traceability and tracking.
Basically, the term traceability, or tracking, refers to the information process that follows the product from upstream to downstream in the production chain and meets the logic of "I communicate what I am doing while I am doing it so that those who come after me know what has been done."
In concrete terms, tracing means determining what information needs to be made explicit in order to ensure documented identification of the flows and organizations involved in shaping the final product.
Instead, the term traceability, or tracking, refers to the reverse process that follows the product from downstream to upstream in the production chain and reconstructs previously collected information in order to understand the history of a product.
The focal points of C.F.I.'s production are manual brazing and TIG (Tungsten Inert Gas) welding processes. Every operator within these departments undergoes thorough training and is certified by accredited third party. All processes are certified by an accredited third party and constantly monitored and verified by qualified C.F.I. personnel.
The combination of traceability, qualification of operators and processes enable C.F.I. to return to its customers in a timely manner all the information necessary to prepare a Brazing or Welding Book in accordance with the PED Directive.
In addition, C.F.I. has implemented in-house qualified personnel for VT visual inspections (I and II level) and PT liquid penetrant inspections (II level).
The main UNI standards for brazing include:
UNI EN ISO 13585: This standard defines technical rules for the qualification of brazers and strong brazing operators. It includes requirements for performance, test conditions, qualification, acceptability criteria and certification validity ranges.
UNI EN 13134: This standard covers the qualification of the strong brazing procedure.
UNI EN 14276: Used in refrigeration, this standard applies to pressure equipment for refrigeration systems and heat pumps.
ISO 22688:2020: Quality requirements for brazing of metallic materials
UNI standards for TIG welding are diverse and cover various aspects of the welding process. The main ones adopted are:
UNI EN ISO 9606-1: This standard covers the qualification of welders for welding steels and metallic materials.
UNI EN ISO 15614-1: This standard specifies requirements for the qualification of welding procedures for metallic materials.
UNI EN ISO 3834: This series of standards defines quality requirements for fusion welding of metallic materials.
UNI EN ISO 636: This standard specifies requirements for the classification of rods, filler wires and deposited metal for TIG welding of unalloyed and fine-grained steels.
Relative to VT visual inspections and PT liquid penetrant inspections:
EN ISO 9712: Non-destructive testing - Qualification and certification of non-destructive testing personnel