Indeco, innovative responses to a
continuously changing global market
Indeco ind S.p.a. is the only “family-run” company
among the worldwide leaders in the production
and sale of hydraulic equipment for earthmoving,
demolition and recycling.
All of its largest direct competitors are “divisions
of large European or Japanese multinational
groups”.Indeco is also the only company among its
competitors not to have made any changes to its
corporate structure since its founding, despite having
experienced a difficult historical period affected by
a deep-seated crisis within the market structure.
Indeco products have and will be the subject of many
important innovations:
• the perfection of the hydraulic system on all
hammers to offer users even more tangible
economic benefits;
• the technological upgrading and constructive
improvement of the majority of catalogue products,
based on specific market requests;
• the amplification and rationalisation of the entire
current range with the introduction of new
products intended for the broadest fields of
application: from recycling to material handling,
from loading to forestry handling.
Indeco will continue to focus on the success
of the global market in the near future, sticking
to its path consisting in all but relocations and
pricing policies with the consequent lowering of
technological standards and product quality,
and the resizing of the after-sales service, seeking
instead to increase its offer of products,
technological content and level of services,
maintaining the ability to perceive and anticipate
client and market demands.
Indeco ind S.p.a., an Italian manufacturer of
hydraulic hammers, was founded in 1976 by
partners Vitulano, Santoro and Carabellese, still
shareholders to this day, and immediately set itself a
clear objective, to promptly and effectively respond
to market demands, focusing on a capillary sales and
after-sales network, and the expertise of its design
and development department. A philosophy that
ensured the company’s international development,
initially as a supplier of non-original spare parts for
hammers. In 1980, following the development of
the first HB 27 hydraulic hammer prototype, quickly
followed by the other models in the HB series, Indeco
quickly rose to become a world-leading brand in the
demolition sector, competing with a selective group of
high-level competitors. Its commitment to searching
for a product that could offer users greater benefits
in terms of production, output, service life, ease-of-
maintenance and management costs, eventually
led the company in 1986 to patent the first “Smart
Hammer”, able to modulate the frequency and
power of each impact stroke based on the hardness
of the rock. Thus the MES hydraulic hammer series
was born, a milestone for product innovation in this
sector. In 1996, on occasion of its 20th anniversary
and by virtue of the excellent results achieved in the
field of technological innovation, Indeco received
the “SaMoTer Innovation Award” in the Machinery
Builders category. Since 2000, Indeco has consistently
responded to a progressively differentiated market in
search of increasingly specialised products, expanding
its product portfolio to include new equipment
enriched by the company’s technological expertise
gained in the manufacture of hammers.