FIP - Fabbrica Isolatori Porcellana - High and Medium-Voltage Porcelain Insulators

FIP - Fabbrica Isolatori Porcellana, founded in 1919, boasts a prestige position and four generations of experience in the electroceramic field.

FIP's huge production range includes high and medium-voltage post and operating insulators up to 420kV, hollow insulators up to 170kV, hermetic bushings for capacitors, insulators for locomotives, line insulators and any type of insulators as per customers' drawings and specifications. FIP produces more than 300 different models per year.

Customers' growing needs added to technological evolution have long encouraged the company to develop machinery and quality control complying with the new demands in the field.

Constant and frequent investments together with decades of experience and reliability have made for an up-to-date, dynamic factory that is always engaged in steady development to both confirm and improve the quality of its products.

This is the FIP image: an independent factory made of tradition, experience, continuity, technical know-how and evolution, placed daily at both regular and prospective customers' disposal.

Customized insulators

Among FIP's strong points is working according to customers' drawings. The technical department is at its customers' disposal to develop new solutions and meet new requirements to change standard products or develop a brand new project.

Medium-voltage post insulators, bushing insulators and line insulators

FIP's production range includes:

• High and medium-voltage outdoor post insulators with IEC type solid core - from BIL 75 to 1,550kV with different mechanical charges
• Medium-voltage indoor post insulators with internal fittings - from BIL 60 to 325kV / from 200 to 1600 daN
• Medium-voltage outdoor post insulators with internal fittings - from BIL 60 to 170kV / from 400 to 1600 daN
• Medium-voltage bushing insulators
• Medium-voltage bushing for capacitors
• Railway insulators
• Hollow insulators - by customer's drawing
• Line insulators

FIP is able to comply with different standards such as IEC, ANSI, DIN, BS, etc. in accordance with customers' needs.

Quality system for high and medium-voltage porcelain insulators

FIP's quality system has always been oriented to continuous improvement, setting from time to time new goals related to the customers' needs in order to guarantee consumer satisfaction.

FIP's laboratory, regularly renewed with the acquisition of new and sophisticated tools, is involved in every essential step of production:

• In the study of the new product
• In the constant control of raw materials
• In the methodic control of the materials during all the phases of the workmanship process

This guarantees:

• Constant quality of the product
• Continuous improvement
• Optimisation of the products
• Immediate corrective actions in case of non-compliances or deviation from the standards for process or raw materials

FIP's quality system has been in accordance with UNI EN ISO 9001 since 1996 and the company prides itself on very high mechanical quality proved by the homologations of several utilities that periodically carry out audits by FIP's factory.

FIP's corporate philosophy takes the environment into account, and the company is working to obtain the UNI ENI ISO 1400:2004.

All products are manufactured and assembled in the factory located in Romagnano Sesia while customers are spread all around the world. Among FIP's customers are big electrical utilities companies, electrical board societies and contractors.

High-voltage post insulators up to 420kV

FIP is an approved supplier for high-voltage post insulators up to 420kV of:

• Terna – Italy
• Enel Distribuzione - Italy
• National Grid Company - UK
• RWE - Germany
• E.ON Netz - Germany

And for railways of:

• Trenitalia - Italy
• SNCF - France
• SBB - Switzerland
• DB - Germany
• ONCF - Maroc