RICO
RICO, a family company from Foz do Sousa (Gondomar), Portugal, has built press brakes since 1979 and today makes the hydraulic PRCN and PRCB and the fully servo-electric PRCE.
Visit rico.ptAbout RICO
Tomás Castro Silva started the business in 1969 and created the RICO brand in 1976, first making calenders and drilling machines. RICO built its first hydraulic press brake, the RQH 2030, in 1979 and its first guillotine shear in 1982; the PRCN, its first CNC-synchronised press brake, followed in 1993, the PRCB in 2010 and the electric PRCE in 2017.
Still a family company, RICO develops and manufactures its machines in-house. Besides press brakes it builds the PR-CELL robotic bending cell, the ATC and ATC Twin tool changers and HGR guillotine shears, and it says it is represented in 25 countries on five continents.
- 1976RICO brand created
- 1979First hydraulic press brake
- 25Countries with representation
- 5Continents
The RICO Press Brake Range
PRCN
High-performance hydraulic press brake with H-Box frame, 70 to 500 t.
Standard 70–200 t, custom 250–500 t, 2–4 m; RICO's catalogues are sent on request and its site publishes no model table.
PRCB
Configurable hydraulic press brake, standard models from 30 to 600 t.
Standard models 30–600 t; RICO's catalogues are sent on request and its site publishes no model table.
PRCE
Fully servo-electric press brake with two ball screws.
RICO publishes no sizes or models for the PRCE; its catalogues are sent on request.
Company information, specifications and images from RICO press brakes, About RICO, Where we are, Contacts (legal name, address), Digital catalogues (on request), retrieved 28 October 2026. RICO says it is represented in 25 countries on five continents, and its locations map lists representatives in Europe, Asia, North America (Canada, USA), South America (Brazil), Oceania (Australia) and Africa (Egypt); it names no market limits, so its press brakes are listed in every catalog region.
