Company
Founded in 1973 Athena is a group of 7 companies which produce gaskets, technical articles and metallic components for the industrial and motorcycle sectors.
They all operate according to the UNI EN ISO 9002 quality standards. Their main concepts are: reliability, availability, technical evolution and constant improvement.
Over the last few years Athena has set up its Aftermarket Division which operates exclusively in the motorcycle sector and produces gaskets, thermic units and spare parts for each make and model all over the world. Athena is market leader in the preparation of gasket kits for the repair of mopeds, motorcycles, jetski, outboards and Harley Davidson offering the most complete range in the world. Besides gaskets, Athena offers also oil seals and fork oil seals of original type, FRAM oil and air filters, bearings and AP Racing brake pads.
Athena is the only company in the world which produces thermic units for scooters, mopeds and motorcycles and sells them on the original spare parts and track competition markets.
Besides thermic units Athena offers a wide range of complementary products of high quality: extended gears, mufflers, variators, torque drivers, transmission belts, wheel pins, crankshafts, connecting rods, electronic units, manifolds, reed valves, carburettors and air filters. Athena offers also a service for recovering worn aluminium cylinders and guarantees appearance, quality and finishing of the articles.
A young professional team, up-to-date measuring instruments and control equipment together with technology and bench testing are the elements that grant quality, innovation, performance, competitiveness and reliability on each Athena product, all of this to best satisfy our customer's expectations.
Range
MOTORCYCLE GASKETS
Athena offers the most complete range of gaskets and gasket sets for every make and model of motorcycles, jet-ski, snow-mobiles and outboards in the world. The quality of our gaskets replaces and exceeds the seal offered by the original products. Our long time experience gained in supplying most prestigious OEM Motorcycle manufactures, has brought to our R&D technicians those skills necessary to make by ourselves exclusive high quality material compounds.
MOTORCYCLE FORK OIL AND DUST SEALS
Athena offers the most complete range of fork oil seal kits and dust seal kits, furthermore, on special applications we can offer a single fork kit, composed of, one oil seal and one dust seal. The quality of Athena oil seals meets of exceeds OEM quality. In order to easily access our information, we provide for two methods of research: the first one is by trademark/model and the second one showing all the applications for every Part Number.
Certifications
QUALITY, SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SERVICE (QSA)
All ATHENA Group companies have been working for some years now under the Quality Management System approved by the certifying body DNV, is one of the leading world-wide registrars for certification, as complying with the Reference Standard UNI EN ISO 9001.
Thanks to this Quality System, we regularly apply more and more appropriate and effective methods to every manufacturing process. This in order to always achieve and guarantee the Quality Standards required by our Customers and in the perspective of a constant improvement.
We are also obtaining the Automotive Certification ISO TS 16949, and satisfy the highest Quality levels required by the Automotive sector.
We fully comply with the required Employee safety and health standards, through direct and planned safety managements, considerable investments on state-of-the-art equipments and tooling, always in accordance with the D.Lgs. 626/94.
We believe that Safety and Health of employees and workplaces are necessary conditions for our development.
ATHENA SPA and ATHENA SUD have also achieved the Environmental Certification UNI EN ISO 14001, thanks to the reduction of their activity environmental impact and their development sustainable for the environment.
QUALITY AND TRAINING
We carry out accurate technical-quality controls, in accordance with technical requirements, for each working process and each manufactured lot, as well as for all purchased materials.
Training is a primary and strategic goal, and it is performed at all levels and company areas, through theoretical and practical sessions with the assistance of high-skilled and experienced trainers, in order to achieve the best effectiveness and efficiency in every working process.
State-of-the-art control tools, measuring equipments and complete metrological and chemical laboratories allow reliable measurements and inspections, accurate technical data, fulfillment of the functional requirements and reliability of our manufactured items.
Most of our products are subjected to long-lasting and reliability tests, as those performed by the motorcycle testing bench, in order to support the product development.
Athena is always in the search for a constant improvement.
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