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SPINEA
SPINEA (business name: SPINEA, s.r.o.) is an innovative mechanical engineering company with its own development, manufacturing, and sale of high precision reduction gears, sold under the TwinSpin brand. It is currently the only European manufacturer of high precision reduction gears in the segment and it competes worldwide with three Japanese companies.

The company was started in 1994 and an impulse for its start was an invention of a Slovak designer Bartolomej Janek, Eng., CSc., specifically the transformation of the planet movement of reduction gear wheels into a rotary movement of flanges. The new design and technological solutions are protected by European and worldwide patents, which include in total 16 patent applications and 4 awarded worldwide patents. The start of the serial production of internationally patented high precision reduction gears started in 1999. A year later, the company obtained an international ISO 9001:2000 quality certificate.

Today SPINEA produces 22 000 gears annually, 60 percent of which are used in robotics. In fact, virtually every major robot maker in Europe including KUKA, COMAU and ABB robotics uses the company's gears.

SPINEA employs almost 500 people. Due to the technological demand of the manufacturing, the company has the state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment, so it therefore employs mostly highly qualified specialists in the field of development and research, manufacture, quality, marketing, and sale.

History of SPINEA, s.r.o.

 * 1994 SPINEA, s.r.o. founded.
 * 1999 Start of serial manufacturing of internationally patented high precision reduction gears
 * 2000 SPINEA obtained an ISO 9001:2000 quality certificate
 * 2002 SPINEA became a member of the International Federation of Robotics IFR
 * 2005 Start of production in the new manufacturing plant 1
 * 2006 Launch of RotoSpin on the market
 * 2007 Start of production in the new manufacturing plant 2
 * 2008 SPINEA became a member of the European robotics association EUnited Robotics, launch of DriveSpin on the market
 * 2010 SPINEA became a member of the Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau VDMA
 * 2011 Quality Management System - ISO 9001:2009 re-certification took place
 * 2013 Operating programme Competitiveness and Economic Growth
 * 2014 Launch of a new G series on the market
 * 2015 Launch of a new DriveSpin Inline Series H on the market
 * 2017 Start of the implementation of a manufacturing capacity enlargement project

Certificates and awards

 * In 1998, the Slovak Gold foundation awarded a Slovak golden plaque to the TwinSpin high precision reduction gear.
 * The prize was awarded for the newly patented technical solution in the field of mechanical engineering.
 * The best exporter of 2004.
 * For its attitude towards its employees, the company was awarded a regional prize “2007 Opal Grain” as an employer friendly to the family.
 * Best mechanical engineering product of 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015.
 * SPINEA, s.r.o. obtained the Prize of the Prešov Self-Governing Region in 2015 for major technological innovations in the industry, support of employment in the region, and promotion of Prešov Region worldwide.

SPINEA is a member of international associations:

 * International Federation of Robotics (IFR)
 * EUnited
 * Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau e.V (VDMA)
 * EUrobotics
 * ETP EUROPE
 * Slovak Chamber of Commerce and Industry
 * Mechanical Engineering Union of the Slovak Republic

The company participates in the work of the European Technological platform ETP MANUFUTURE-SK, where, through the Cluster/SAATAR it became a member of the EFFRA (association of companies for PPP projects, co-operation with the European Commission). In Slovakia, we co-operate with the Slovak Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) and with the Security and Defence Industry Association of the Slovak Republic (ZBOP SR). A success of SPINEA is its membership of VDMA (an association of automation manufacturers in Germany), where the company has been active as the only Slovak business subject since 2010.