Company

The product and sales range today has its main focus on TV inspection. If the pipe diameter is 25 mm or 2000 mm, if the camera should be pushed or driven, if mobile equipment is needed or a complete TV inspection vehicle, RICO has the right answer.

The products range from the handy ROCAM^® – with its over 15.000 sold units until today probably the most-sold camera world-wide – up to vehicles, built to standard, like the HIGHLANDER^® (design protected in its ergonomic and innovative concept).

RICO is working world-wide and beeing supported by a considerable network of sales representatives as well as authorized and non-authorized service stations.

Quality and Environment Policy

Our company is certified in accordance with DIN EN ISO 9001 and 14001.

Out quality and environment management system has been certified in accordance with DIN EN ISO 9001 and 14001 since the year 2000.
We are obliged to make a regular great effort to maintain the specifications required by the standards.

The goals of our corporate policy are:

to provide the best possible TV inspection technology for the protection of man and his environment.
to achieve added economical value and prove our independence.
to offer our customers simple solutions quickly and reliably.

Our environment policy and goals

We, our competitors and our customers are active in the protection of the environment. We are therefore a part of the rapidly growing environment industry. The high quality level of German environment technology promotes our export possibilities. For this reason, it is only logical that we set ourselves environmental goals and maintain a certification in accordance with ISO 14001 in addition to certification in accordance with ISO 9001.

In particular:

we determine the valid environmental regulations and laws and observe them.
we look after the effects of our company on the environment by regularly analysing our environment-relevant data and searching for possibilities for improvement.
we visit our suppliers to draw their attention to the effects of their company on the environment too.
the health of our employees in terms of industrial safety is one of our prime concerns.
Employees are trained for example by instruction in the handling of hazardous substances and electrical machines.

We therefore urge all our business partners to consider the effects of their own company on the environment and to look for ways of improvement.
For example: By disposing of waste according to local waste disposal regulations and by determining and observing the valid specifications.
Alert us to possible improvements which result from your specific view of the situation.

Certified according to ISO 9001/14001

» Certificate DIN EN ISO 9001 (PDF, 1580 kB)

» Certificate DIN EN ISO 14001 (PDF, 1581 kB)

» Certification Explosion protection (PDF, 834 kB)

History

Founded in 1978 as Ltd., RICO’s concern was microelectronics and sensors from start up. To the first things beeing developed belonged robots for testing welding seams of pipes, laser devices for measuring distances, and cameras for nuclear plants. Later, RICO focused on TV inspection of pipes and sewers, especially.

In 1990, the company was sold to the ROTHENBERGER group, today resident in Kelkheim, who merged the EAB, Kleinwalsertal, with RICO in Kempten in 1994. This created a company, strong in development, which was able to operate worldwide.

Today, this company, with its flexibility and responsiveness, its share-owning management, and its financial power, deriving from the group-membership, has a special position among the competitors.

Memberships

• DWA, Deutsche Vereinigung für Wasserwirtschaft, Abwasser und Abfall e.V.

• IKT – Institut fuer Unterirdische Infrastruktur gGmbH, Gelsenkirchen

• VDRK – Verband Deutscher Rohr- und Kanal-Technik-Unternehmen e.V.

• Supporting member of Fachhochschule Kempten

• German Society for Trenchless Technologie e.V. (GSTT)

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