The new base fulfils with the commitment of vicinity and quality of the signature

In the frame of the acts of celebration of the 50 anniversary of the signature of the agreement of distribution for Spain of the products Caterpillar by part of Barloworld Finanzauto, the company inaugurated the past 21 March his new installations in Barberà of the Vallès, Barcelona. With 20.000 m² of terrain, these new installations form part of the project of growth of Barloworld Finanzauto in Spain. A hundred of assistants and the directors of the company converted the inauguration in a celebration of success.

After 47 years of permanence in Saint Perpètua of Mogoda, Barloworld Finanzauto has moved to Barberà of the Vallès, also in the province of Barcelona. The new installations have the best technology and some infrastructures of first quality in addition to offering wifi in all his extension. The value added of this new centre is that it converts to Barloworld Finanzauto in a company type B that answers to the social and environingingmental challenges of the actuality. Rodrigo Martínez, director of the company, explained during the inauguration that these installations “contribute with the environingingment and have a firm commitment with the sustainability”.

The workshop of Barloworld Finanzauto occupies 1.717 m².

The centre has an extension of 20.000 m², 4.350 of them built in plant. The workshop occupies 1.717 m² and the warehouse 550 m², with 2.029 references in total. Besides, it has wide offices, big zones of rest, a room of air compressesed, parking and areas of exhibition, between other installations.

The act of inauguration had the presence of the main representatives of the company and more than a hundred of assistants. Also they did act of presence the general director of the Departament d'Indústria of the Government of Catalonia, Antoni Grau, and the mayor of Barberà of the Vallès, Ana of the Frago. Grau Wanted to stand out the importance of Catalonia in the industrial state signalling that thanks to initiatives like these “are in the good way of the recovery and go to take out to the country advance between all”. By his part, the mayor of Barberà aimed that “these installations are a good tool for the generation of occupation and of wealth” and wanted to stand out “the strategic situation regarding communications and infrastructures that offers Barberà of the Vallès”.

Antoni Grau, general director d'Indústria of the Government of Catalonia.

Javier León, director of Marketing of Barloworld Finanzauto, did of teacher of ceremonies during the act of inauguration, standing out the commitment of the company with the progress and the continuous improvement. Gonzalo Rodríguez of Castro, president of the company, declared that the company carries two years opening installations by distinct points of Spain, “in spite of the complicated situation”, and that pretends to follow doing it. The following opening is foreseen in the place of Two Sisters, Seville. Rodríguez of Castro showed convinced that “the investment in public work will go back to our country since it is fundamental for the economic recovery”.

Of left to right. Rodrigo Martínez, director of Barloworld Finanzauto; Antoni Grau, general director d'Indústria of the Government of Catalonia; Gonzalo Rodríguez of Castro, president of Barloworld Finanzauto; Christian Dillier, general director of Caterpillar Europe; and Manuel Fernández, director of base Barcelona.

Manuel Fernández, director of base Barcelona of Barloworld Finanzauto, signalled that this opening is “the start of a new stage that begin loaded of illusion and hope” and marked like aim the “permanence at the side of the customer and of the provider, each more agile day and demanding, the one who gives felt to all what do”. To this affirmation added Viktor Salzmann, CEO of the company, the one who described to the customers like “the active elder of Finanzauto” and signalled that the company “bets by the new technologies but keeps the values of always”. Salzmann Exposed that Finanzauto invests more than 1 million of euros in learning “because it is the best tool of future to keep on being a healthy and solid company”.

The act of inauguration was the frame chosen by the directors of Caterpillar to deliver, on the one hand, to Viktor Salzmann the memorial plate by the 50 years of collaboration of Caterpillar and Barloworld Finanzauto and, by another, to Isabel Vicente, director of Postventa of Barloworld Finanzauto, the prize ‘Gold Service'. Annually, Caterpillar delivers this prize to that company that has offered some better services and, in this occasion, Caterpillar chose the service of Postventa of Barloworld Finanzauto by his capacity of hydraulics repair, his terms of hygiene and by his attitude against the pollution, among others reasons.