Your tube components, made to your industry's standards – the whole process under one roof

RICOS S.r.l. manufactures our customers' tube components in stainless steel, steel and aluminium, to their drawings and specifications. Starting from our skills and experience, we can also propose innovative solutions that make a part easier to produce, lighter or more reliable. We take the customer's product from feasibility to a tested part, with the whole manufacturing process in our own plant in Pianezze (Vicenza), in north-east Italy.

We work to the standards of your sector. Each industry has its own requirements, and we build our process around them:

• High pressure and hydrogen: manifolds and fittings up to 500 bar, with pressure and leak tests on every assembly and laser-marked traceability of each part.
• Nuclear and heat transfer: tight geometric tolerances and controlled surface roughness.
• Cleanliness and hygiene (food equipment, gases): low internal roughness (Ra < 0.8 µm), burr-free parts and strict internal cleaning if requested.

One supplier for the whole process. Under one roof we offer:

• engineering support from our technical office;
• hydroforming on in-house machines;
• tube bending (fixed radius, variable radius, freeform), coning, tapering and end forming;
• round-to-square forming without welding;
• 3D laser cutting, welding, CNC turning and milling;
• testing and final inspection with a 3D measuring arm.

This keeps lead times short, avoids hand-overs between subcontractors and gives the customer one accountable partner.

In-house tooling, guaranteed feasibility. We design and build all our dies and fixtures in-house. When we accept a project, we can confirm early that the part can be made. We then control the quality of every step, from the first prototype to series production.

We have 20 employees and a 3,000 m² plant, and we produce about 600,000 parts per year, with capacity for 1 million. We supply customers in gas and hydrogen, taps and faucets, paper machinery, lighting, heat exchangers and food equipment, in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Austria, France, Germany and Finland.

What we offer

• Manufacturing of customer tube components to drawing, from prototype to series
• High-pressure gas manifolds and fittings (up to 500 bar, hydrogen-ready)
• Components to sector standards: high pressure, nuclear, clean and low-roughness applications
• Hydroformed tube components
• Tube bending: fixed radius, variable radius and freeform
• Coning, tapering and tube end forming
• Round-to-square tube forming without welding
• 3D laser cutting of tubes and formed parts
• Welded tube assemblies, including orbital welding
• CNC turning and milling
• Pressure testing, leak testing and part traceability
• In-house design and manufacturing of dies and fixtures