OUR BUSINESS: EQUIPPING TO LAST
Our quest for innovation allows our products to evolve over time and to build your future.
We also design our products to last over time and to make your daily life easier
Values, know-how and innovation
at the service of our customers
You will discover our digital catalogue and we thank you.
It is the fruit and the result of the development of our values shared by
all of our teams. The first is the Requirement, the one we owe you,
the one that represents the actors of the large kitchen and catering outside
home and the one that makes up our DNA to offer you the best
stainless steel materials for your business.
Our 4+ Hygiene, Ergonomics, Safety, Ecology are a component and a clear guide at the service of the culinary craft, French discipline recognized worldwide. This Requirement is also reflected in our desire to be forward-looking both in terms of sustainable development and the digitalization of our equipment and information systems.
This brings us to #innovation, a real focus of investment and reflection within Sofinor. It is realized through the recognition of our peers by winning awards at major international fairs.
Sofinor is also, above all, a [Team Spirit], committed women and men to bring the best customer satisfaction, to sustain jobs, to foster personal growth and the sharing of talent.
And finally, a fundamental value within our company, without it, none of this would be possible, Pleasure ; Pleasure to spread the culture of recognition around you, Pleasure to produce our quality equipment in France, and Pleasure to be part of the great family of Food Professions.
With the desire to be at your side every day for the realization of your projects, we accompany you in all your projects.
4 Dedicated brands
Stainless steel equipment
for the food industry
Sofinor designs, manufactures and sells stainless steel equipment and furniture for food processing. More than 5000 references are offered: equipment designed for intensive and optimal use in kitchens, laboratories or any other place where hygiene, safety and ergonomics are essential.
Professional roasters
high-quality
INOTECH is the reference for high quality professional roasters. They are intended for supermarkets, restaurants, caterers and itinerant trades.
bedpan washer &
hospital equipment
ARCANIA, France’s leading manufacturer of stainless steel washbasins for the hospital sector, including a range of highly efficient washbasins.
MAPAL designs and manufactures concepts for the development of food products.
MAPAL, is the subsidiary of the Sofinor Group, which specializes in the development of laboratories and kitchens for food processing, and for the presentation and presentation of fresh products in supermarkets.
An equipment for you
When choosing your stainless steel equipment, all the details count,
even those that may seem trivial.
To offer ever more efficient professional equipment,
SOFINOR integrates from the design a complete quality approach based on four lines of innovation research.
The 4+ SOFINOR are the fundamental criteria
to guide you in your choice. They ensure you a judicious purchase.
A quality approach
Imagine high quality stainless steel equipment, a source of added value for your projects.
Project managers, design managers, draughtsmen and prototypists… All are committed to bringing value to your projects.
Whatever the nature of your study, SOFINOR offers you an adapted solution. Quality is at the heart of our concerns, as shown by the certifications obtained by Sofinor in recent years.
ISO 9001, Relating to quality management, this standard sets out organisational requirements for an effective quality management system
A COMPANY eco-responsible
SUPPLY
Regional, French or European suppliers close to our workshops.
Materials in high quality stainless steel AISI 304L, 100% recyclable.
Hand-washers that consume three times less water than their so-called “economical” imported competitors, i.e. 110 m3 of water saved / year in a professional kitchen.
Prices printed according to FSC standards.
MANUFACTURING PROCESS
Low voltage lighting in all production areas.
Workshops partially heated by energy from machine coolers.
Energy-saving fibre laser that no longer uses rare gases but diode technology.
LOGISTICS
Packaging made of 90% recycled cardboard, avoiding all the usual plastic materials.
Optimisation of packaging to facilitate the sharing of transport.
Travel policy favouring the least polluting commercial vehicles and encouraging the use of carbon offset public transport.
Eco-participation DEEE et DEA
At the end of their life, Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) that was put on the market from August 2005 onwards must be recovered through an approved channel.
August 2005 must be recovered through an approved channel. More recently, Decree n°2012-22 extended this
obligation to Waste Furniture Items (WFI). All our invoices show the amount of the eco-participation, for all our products considered as professional furniture or electrical or electronic equipment.
At the end of the life of this SOFINOR equipment, the user contacts the company Ecologic which organises the removal of the products. The waste from this equipment is then recycled. SOFINOR is a member of ECOLOGIC under the n° M1972, under its extended producer responsibility for the management of
management of Waste Furnishing Components (WFC) from category 6 professional furnishing components, and for the management of WEEE from Professional Electrical and Electronic Equipment.
OUR CSR APPROACH
Our Sofinor group has been working on and implementing a CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) policy for several months.
What is CSR?
This is sustainable development applied to the company.
We work every day on the implementation of approaches aimed at :
- Improve employee engagement: sharing, professional fulfilment, well-being.
- RReduce the environmental impact of the activity: resources, carbon, fragility of ecosystems.
- Strengthen the usefulness of the company for society: civic mission, territorial anchoring, diversity.
In concrete terms, what do we do ?
12 volunteers from each department and site volunteered to join the CSR team
- They take stock of what is already in place at each site.
- They draw up an action plan to reflect the different sites.
- They implement these actions with the help of all the employees of the SOFINOR group.
It is a PROJECT FOR THE FUTURE that is being launched, so that on our scale,
we can have a POSITIVE IMPACT for US, for OTHERS
and for OUR PLANET.
Making things happen together!
THE SOFINOR STORY
Of course, our products are part of our history. But from the very beginning, Sofinor has been inspired by a passion for innovation, and it is this passion that has created our brand DNA. From the first kitchen furniture designed in 1961, discover how our history influences our ambitions today.
Beginnings
The story of SOFINOR begins with a young boy, Jean FINOT, who takes objects apart and puts them back together to understand how they work and dreams of becoming an inventor.
Always with a sheet of paper and a pencil in his hand, he designed and made his first kitchen furniture in 1961. As soon as they were displayed in the family hardware store, they were sold.
Inventions
In 1965, he created “La Mamette”, the first automatic calf feeder. More than 4,000 of these were in use throughout the world.
Two years later, he invented the Cyclosauna: the infernal weight loss machine.
