Near Mirandola, there is a company set up three years before 2000 that now exports medical components and devices to over 60 countries worldwide with a consolidated turnover of €50 million. As the payoff reads, they work every day to improve people’s health. Words and actions: HMC has not become a benefit company by chance. For FARE INSIEME, Giampaolo Colletti interviews Andrea Bisi, currently the sole administrator at HMC
by Giampaolo Colletti
@gpcolletti
Photocredit: Giacomo Maestri e Francesca Aufiero
This is the story of an apprentice who ate up thousands of kilometres, hours and sacrifices and managed to form part of that generation who, in the 1970s-80s, contributed to the creation and development of the biomedical sector. This is what we read overseas regarding the generation of self-made men. Giuseppe Bisi is indeed a self-made entrepreneur who was moved by an unstoppable desire to do something ever since he was young. Giuseppe started working very early at just 14. He wanted to develop projects and establish relationships. Which is what he did. We find ourselves in Concordia sulla Secchia, a municipality in Emilia with little over 8,000 inhabitants in the Modena province, a stone's throw from Mirandola, a district known all over the world for its biomedical industry. The town covers just 41 square km to the extreme north of the Modena province, not far from Lombardy. For Giuseppe, everything started here in 1997. In the beginning, the company was a warehouse with little resources and it distributed hemodialysis components with no internal production. But the business started to evolve with strategic acquisitions, investments in people and state-of-the-art technologies. Over the years, it started producing, diversifying therapy areas and implementing production technologies. “Dad put his experience in the district to use, always putting ethics and respect for people at the centre,” reports Andrea Bisi, sole administrator of HMC since 2017.
The company today and tomorrow. From the beginning to the present day. Today, HMC is well-known in Italy and abroad. Scalability is provided by the implementation of technologies, but also by the territory, which is an extraordinary accelerator. There are 140 direct employees, plus twenty people from the British branch and forty from Dimar, a company acquired in January 2023. Then there is the production facility in Serbia with 150 people. The market is as big as the whole world: over 60 countries supplied with medical components and devices for a consolidated turnover of over €50 million. As the payoff reads, “HMS works every day to improve people's health.” And it does so by producing medical components and devices. “We are characterised by three key factors: ambition, the continuous desire to grow and the willingness to establish ourselves as valuable partners within the health sector. We are flexible because we consider ourselves a modern and young company that pays attention to change and is ready to innovate its processes and products. Producers. Then there is the strong push to manufacture and experience the products first hand,” says Bisi. The skills within the district have an immense value. After all, the network of professionals and services that can be found in the territory is a fundamental opportunity. “An opportunity as well as a responsibility, as we must guarantee the longevity and high professionalism of the district. Our commitment is to having a positive high-quality impact, starting from the products and services we supply to medical companies and hospitals through sustainable corporate management that cares about the community and our planet. That is why what counts the most for us is the reliability and professionalism of relationships,” stresses Bisi.
People, technologies, community. Human capital and technological capital, as we mentioned. The one drives the other, yet in an almost-symbiotic relationship. “We have always invested in infrastructure and technology to improve our internal organization and quality. A company must always invest in both fronts - personnel and technology - to be appealing and competitive,” explains Andrea Bisi. Tradition and contemporaneity. “We managed to evolve over 25 years, going from an owner-run governance to a managerial approach and maintaining the focus on the people making up the company. The evolution started with the arrival of HR Director Enrica Quaglio in September 2021,” reports Bisi. As for the future, we are looking to the US market and new patents. But, in the meantime, we have just become a Benefit Company, and we are very proud of it. “For us, it means making the maximum commitment. We believe a business must be profitable but, at the same time, it must leave a positive mark on the territory and a better world for future generations.”
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