Fi-Tech and Arkote tour Dominican manufacturers with Protabaco
A week of factory visits across the country marked the formal introduction of the alliance to local producers.
Protabaco supplies original-source components for tobacco manufacturing machinery. We hold more than 500,000 pieces in our own warehouses in Santiago and Sarmenstorf, supported by over 200,000 OEM drawings and a physical library of more than 2,000 machine manuals.
When a line stops, the question is not who can find the part. It is who already has it.
Belts and garniture tapes, knives and diamond grinding discs, gears, shafts, pulleys, metal and plastic chains, wheels, sensors, electronic cards, drums, suction rollers, arms, and complete sub-assemblies.
Primary depth across Molins, Hauni and G.D. Focke, SASIB and AMF also stocked.
This is a fraction of what we hold. If you don’t see it, send us the part number and we will check it against the drawings.
Complete machines bought and sold on request.
Manufacturers supported across the Americas, Europe and Asia
Original manufacturer drawings and part-number references
Distinct part numbers held across both warehouses
Physical manual library used for compatibility verification
Two operating hubs: Santiago, Dominican Republic and Sarmenstorf, Switzerland.
Stock positioned on both sides of the Atlantic shortens lead times for the Americas, Europe and Asia, and lets us dispatch from whichever hub is closer to your line.
500,000+ components held in stock and supported by a specialized partner
network, drawn from legacy platforms including Molins and Hauni engineering
lines.
An archive of 200,000+ technical drawings, manuals, and OEM reference records means parts are supplied against original part-number references supporting engineering teams with continuity, not guesswork.
Direct relationships with tier-one component manufacturers and authorized regional partners keep scheduled maintenance and wear-part replacement on schedule, not treated as emergency response.
A synchronized, two-warehouse framework — Santiago, Dominican Republic and Zurich, Switzerland — shortens lead times and simplifies cross-border coordination for the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
A week of factory visits across the country marked the formal introduction of the alliance to local producers.
Appointment follows a visit to Max Schlatterer’s headquarters in Herbrechtingen, Germany.
Agreement concluded in Santiago brings Arkote knives and Adamantine diamond grinding discs to the Dominican market.
