World leader in the development and manufacture of directional control valves and hydraulic and pneumatic accessories, Bifold is a brand with great hegemony in the offshore market, famous for its success in challenging applications such as explosive, corrosive and subsea. Its factory in Manchester, England, is extremely modern and optimized, being considered the state of the art in the manufacture of its components, operating with competitive manufacturing costs against any other factory in the world.
Exclusive distributor of Bifold in Brazil and an established partner in the development of automation solutions for land terminals, Fluxo is committed to always offering the most modern and reliable products, making its automation packages allow its customers to reach the highest standards. operations, becoming benchmarks for competitiveness in the market.
In order to add the Bifold standard to its automation solutions, as of January 2017, Fluxo's skids began to be assembled with pneumatic and hydraulic instrumentation components manufactured by Bifold, including: pneumatic flow control valves, ball and needle block valves, single flange valves, double block and drain valves and instrument isolation valves.
The big challenge for Fluxo to use Bifold components in their skids was to maintain the competitiveness of an imported product competing with local manufacturing equipment and different quality standards, in a market that, despite being demanding with the final result, leaves the choice and specification of this type of component under the full responsibility of the package supplier.
This challenge was overcome through strong logistics management. With the consolidation of product loads from all the factories it represents in Europe in a single shipment, Fluxo has achieved a great reduction in its import costs. This translated into an increase in competitiveness for all brands distributed by the company in Brazil, and resulted in an increase in the volume of imported equipment in a cyclical process. Reinforcing Fluxo's commitment to quality in every detail, Fluxo's terminal measurement skids are now produced with Bifold components as a kind of serial item, providing customers with equipment with yet another differential over its competitors.