Who are we? Ugigrip-Vallgrip, a family business with a steel mindset
Our story: Over 40 years of expertise
Founded in 1989 by Roland Guirado, Ugigrip is the only French designer and manufacturer of winter tyre studs.
In 1998, Vallgrip was created to meet the growing demand for technical metal parts from its parent company, Ugigrip.
Originally based in Haute-Savoie, Vallgrip opened a second site in 2006 in Épinouze (Drôme), dedicated to the development of complex products, alongside Ugigrip.
In 2007, both companies joined forces within the Theone Group, remaining family-owned, now led by the founder’s heirs.
To improve quality and communication between the two entities, Ugigrip and Vallgrip moved together to a shared facility in Albon (Drôme) in 2014.
This brought production workshops and headquarters under one roof, supporting the company’s ambitions for growth.
In 2024, Vallgrip merged with Ugigrip, further strengthening their position in the technical metal parts market.
From onboarding to long-term development, Ugigrip-Vallgrip puts people first.
We’ve established a participative management style, where everyone contributes their expertise to improve our projects and processes.
Continuous improvement is at the heart of our approach, and it involves every employee in our CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) strategy.
Since 2020, Ugigrip-Vallgrip has expanded beyond its initial international activity, embracing a diversification strategy.
Our goal? To keep meeting the growing demand for Made in France solutions.
Today, we design and manufacture custom metal parts for various fields: industrial manufacturing, furniture, outdoor sports, leather work, textiles, saddlery and tyres.
Ugigrip-Vallgrip committed to “Made in France”
Our industry continues to serve international markets for tyre studs, while also responding to the rising demand for local projects in France.
More and more clients want to buy French, and we’re proud to meet that demand.
Our goals are clear:
- Take an active part in France’s reindustrialisation and the revival of strategic savoir-faire.
- Support French companies in reducing their environmental footprint through local supply chains.
Help you relocalise your technical metal parts, with agility and expertise.
Our team carries our values
At Ugigrip-Vallgrip, we aim to be a recognised model of excellence and innovation, built on our savoir-faire, expertise, and creativity.
As a human-scale company, we’re continuously evolving, modernising our organisation, energising our management culture, and nurturing our collective spirit.
Every member of our team is committed, individually and together, to delivering the best possible solutions, with responsiveness, creativity, and flexibility.
Our CAARE values are as follows:
- Cohesion
- Agility
- Learning
- Respect
- Fulfillment
Digital transformation is also at the heart of our evolution:
from production tools to participative meetings and creativity sessions, we embrace new ways of working to grow together.
A human-scale structure built for strong collaboration
Our team of about twenty dedicated professionals is fully focused on customer satisfaction.
It’s the combined strength of our eight specialised departments, participative management, and the individual value each person brings that drives our success.
This means our employees and leadership team alike embody:
- Agility, whatever the situation
- Versatility, to meet every challenge
- Autonomy, while working as a team
- Open and constructive communication
