After various investments, provides complete solutions in metal sets and components.

From small pieces (only a few centimeters) to large pieces, short or long series, the subcontractor for the manufacture of parts and metal assemblies Laniru is a new stage in its evolution, organization and means. It offers components and assemblies. New investment and new ideas are approaching Laniru to a new way of working that will place the company among the suppliers of relevant sectors such as the elevation, the automotive industry, engineering or the white line, while maintaining traditional as the machine tool.

The Gipuzkoan company Laniru is in the second phase of rapid evolution. Since recently he has launched a new organization, new offices and new machines in operation.

About 23 employees, Laniru is a company with two distinct divisions: one is that of machines, where it has cutting by laser, panelling, bending, punching machines, cut waterjet for large thicknesses of up to 180 mm and various materialsas well as a combined machine, all intended for the manufacture of elements and subassemblies. It this Division also has a technical office with CAD CAM systems. The elements produced at the unit of machines have two destinations. Some of them are delivered to customers and they assembled it in their producctos. The other part is intended to the other Division of Laniru, mount and boilermaking, which has also a unit of machining, where they are manufactured and prepared components that require subsets that are subsequently assembled by welding well, or by mechanical lace, and painting or superficially treated in various ways.

Laniru was founded as a company of modest size, but has a limited amount of production, including the entire value chain to provide complete solutions. It is defined as a subcontractor for production for elements containing metal parts. One of its added values is that despite its small size, their machines have a high production capacity. Around 75 per cent of the production capacity of the unit of machines it is intended to prepare parts for third parties, while the remaining 25 percent fed mounting and Laniru boiler unit. Alfonso Alvarez, business unit manager, explains that "we start with a large production capacity to be subcontractors in the manufacture of components (machines unit) and other production, lower capacity, to be subcontractors of sets of fine boilermaking (mounting and boiler unit)".

Laniru is adapting to the evolution of the market, with a business unit, that of machines, which serves for many companies. The goal is to attend to a very large number of companies but requiring large capacities. It has already integrated the system of quality ISO 9001: 2000, with whose certification will be in November 2005 and has the necessary means for the three-dimensional measurement of pieces, in addition to the usual means of verification of the quality.

The year 2005 has been instrumental in the evolution of Laniru, with the addition of new machinery of first order, "one of our main differentiating values". Added to this is the next certification, which will facilitate the approximation to the sectors of production in series such as elevation, engineering and even automotive and the proper management of a significant growth in recent months. It is a project that can still be regarded as initial phase and that in 2006 will already full results to our clients.

"I would highlight the machine by water jet cutting - says Alfonso Alvarez - whose potential for cutting large thickness is important and that complements the activity of cutting laser, it has limitations for certain materials and thicknesses." In the unit of machines we have the optimal equipment for the sector that we we went, with capacity for large volumes, up to million of annual pieces in the unity of machines, amounts which are reduced in fine fabrications unit", where they can be delivered around 5,000 annual subsets".

The idea in the Gipuzkoan company is clear. "We have some excellent resources, a group of people capable and motivated;" We are still in a phase of evolution in the outsourcing of manufacturing for various sectors. "We want strong steps." Slowly, but surely, with solid steps to ensure the success of each of the phases. "Thus, for the time being lathes, machining centers, or holes, are used currently exclusively for the machining of parts integrated in sets or subsets that Laniru provides and not others".

In fact, in 2006 will increase production capacity, would multiply by four the capacity of the unit of machines in just two years.

The evolution of Laniru has increased and diversified sectors to which it is addressed. If the machine tool and engineering are now its main client, Laniru is in elevation and is close to the white line and the automotive industry, for which are already taking the appropriate steps to respond to different levels of requirements. It diversify, not dependent on a single sector and also expand the geographical scope of performance. It seeks to gain access to more companies, with more added value and a greater number of markets, including also the export.

In the field of the fine boilermaking, some typical products are currently command panels, subcomponents in machines or facilities of automation, parts of exterior, in all kinds of materials. The creation of cells of Assembly is an idea to be for the future.

Some examples in white line, always in parallel metal parts, would be very different components for Assembly with screw, avellanados, two parts 'L', parts with shape, etc.

Possible parts for lift or automotive are also very diverse, in up to one million annual series. Sizes of components, vary between the cms and 4 metres. Among the materials predominate steels and aluminium in various thicknesses.