Eric Stegeman

Background

About Eric Stegeman

The OCAP group is highly specialized in designing, producing and selling a wide range of chassis mechanical parts: suspension joints, track control arms, silentblocks, tie rod ends, steering rods and other components belonging to the steering and suspension systems and generally applied to vehicles equipped with steering wheels. OCAP’s structure and markets have constantly grown over the years, thus transforming the original single entity into a leading company managing a group that operates at an international level. Following a continuous improvement approach, OCAP has achieved excellent performances by consolidating partnerships with well-known manufacturers belonging to the automotive, trucks, earth moving machines and agricultural sectors. Thanks to its technologically advanced R&D, Engineering and Testing Departments, the OCAP Group competitive advantages can be identified with its high specialization level, its flexibility and its co-design activity, which means its ability to offer a complete product development service and to produce components that satisfy the most demanding customer requirements. OCAP efforts are aimed at methodological improvements and product/process implementation in order to maintain its technological leadership. The OCAP Group OCAP can count on different production and distribution units. The Holding, O.C.A.P. S.p.A, which includes only Direction, Supervision and Coordination functions, has its headquarters in Valperga (Turin), Italy. O.C.A.P. Italia S.r.l. is also located in Valperga. It is the industrial site, where five production departments are operative three shifts a day; the technologically advanced warehouse for rough parts and semi-finished products, the R&D Departments, the Design and Testing units are also located here. The impressive logistic centre of AM distribution, the O.C.A.P. International S.r.l, is based in Oglianico, a few kilometres from Valperga; it is a fully automatized warehouse for the storage and distribution of the AM products. OCAP most recent production units are located in Asia: the Ocap Chassis Parts Pvt. Ltd. in Bhiwadi, State of Rajastan (India) and the Ocap Chassis Parts (Kunshan) Co, Ltd. in Kunshan, Province of Jiangsu (China). The globalization of the company structure achieved its latest goals with the creation of the O.C.A.P. International S.r.l. representative office in Moscow (Russia), of the company OCAP France S.a.s. in Cannes (France) and of the representative company OCAP do Brasil in São Paulo (Brasil).