Silmar Group and Valsir
Valsir was founded in 1987 based on a specific industrial strategy adopted by Silmar Group - a leading holding company in the plumbing and heating sector with a turnover of over € 900 million and 2,600 employees - with factories located in Italy, in Valsabbia, north of the city of Brescia, and abroad in the countries of Portugal, Poland, Russia, Romania, Ukraine, France and South Africa.
Today, Valsir is a solid and expanding company that's part of a Group whose true points of cohesion and strength are expressed through its internal synergies, and the specific skills contributed by each of its members.
Aware of the fact that preserving resources is both a moral obligation and a responsibility, as well as a testimony to the company’s strong bond with the surrounding territory, in 2012 Valsir decided to take a further step towards the achievement of its goals by investing in an internal laboratory dedicated to the recycling of plastic materials.
The initial goal was to recycle all the plastic waste generated by Valsir and the other Silmar group companies, in order to produce End of Waste material for the external markets.
But it wasn’t long before the increased demand – in terms of both quantity and variety – gradually encouraged the company to purchase materials from outside the Group in order to further the project’s continuous development from both a technological and production standpoint: this gave rise to our Recycling division.
