STARCO is sharpening its focus on key products within Light transportation: wheel assemblies for wheel barrows, sack trucks and internal trolleys. In 2016 STARCO became a part of the Kenda Group to grow their European footprint. Since then STARCO has been utilising...
This year, STARCO’s customer Hörby Bruk will celebrate their 100 years anniversary. Even though Swedish Hörby Bruk is built on tradition and quality and the products are known as classics, the company changed significantly over time. Here ‘automation’ and...
Ever since 1962, STARCO has delivered wheels and tyres to Swedish company Håkansson, which manufactures wheelbarrows, sack trucks and other equipment and machinery. Now, the family-run company is working on a generational handover to the fourth Håkansson generation –...
For nearly 25 years, STARCO has been supplying wheels, tyres and tubes to British manufacturer Walsall Wheelbarrows. A partnership that sees both companies growing and developing together. Back in the 1940s, the Thacker family was the first to produce steel...
This week the American Kenda subsidiary Martin Wheel takes a STARCO bestseller to the US market at the National Hardware Show in Las Vegas. On top of a large interest in the 10 to 15-inch solutions amongst end-users, the companies look forward to getting feedback from...
In recent years, the manufacturing industry in Europe was characterised by a wave of outsourcing and relocation to low-cost countries. Today, the trend is somewhat turning and we are seeing factories returning to Europe. Low labour costs are replaced with automation,...
