With decades of experience in industry, our company is recognised for its unparalleled expertise in the design, production, and distribution of high-quality products.
Who we are: responsive manufacturing
The philosophy behind key responsive manufacturing
A solid QHSE policy
• Training and raising awareness: with concrete actions towards training, reception, planning and safety
• Risk management: risk assessment, planning, implementing an incident management system, monitoring, adapting our system to ISO 14001 & 45001 standards
• Environmental management: setting up an “energy efficiency” task group, working on reducing our carbon emissions, identifying and assessing our environmental impact in order to continuously minimise them, raising awareness among our employees & encourage good environmental practices
• Culture of safety & quality: establishing key performance indicators (KPIs) to better monitor our QHSE progress, retaining employees by listening to them and fostering a healthy work environment.
A century-old group that looks to the future
Founding of the company in Villefranche-sur-Saône, France by the grandfather of current CEO Philippe Gardette.
Gardette S.A. buys the company Planche S.A., manufacturer of compressors and vacuum pumps, and takes up residence in the centre of Villefranche-sur-Saône, where Gardette is still based today.
Philippe Gardette follows in his father's footsteps and takes over management of the company. He creates the company LPI (for La Production Industrielle), specialised in manufacturing special products for automotive manufacturers.
Acquisition of LGC (La Goupille Cannelée, literally "the grooved pin") from the group PSM Fixation in order to add more fastening, transmission and assembly elements to the catalogue. Creation of the P3G group.
Creation of the PFT economic interest group in France in order to meet automotive demand.
Creation of the subsidiary LGC GmbH
Creation of the SPECIALFIX or Gardette Iberica subsidiary in Barcelona.
Creation of Specialfix US in 2012
Villars, France - cold drawing
A fast-evolving factory
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We are certified to IATF 16949 and ISO 9001 standards.
In all our offers & confirmation messages, we explicitly mention the goods' shipping date(s).
Our sales team is available:
From Monday to Thursday 8:30a.m.-12:00p.m. & 1:30p.m.-5:00p.m.
Fridays 8:30a.m.-12:00p.m. & 1:30p.m.-4:30p.m.
We are committed to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and plan to obtain ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 certifications in the near future.
We are currently putting together a multidisciplinary group with the aim of helping us reduce our carbon footprint. As part of this initiative, we carried out a complete carbon assessment (Scopes 1, 2 and 3) in 2023, allowing us to examine our overall environmental impact.