Delia P. García, more than 15 years breaking barriers in the sector of the mechanised

Like continuation to a long familiar tradition in the metallurgical sector, in 1997 was cream the company Industries Rasede, that at present is managed by the brothers Delia and Rafael García. In those times, Delia studied the career of Technical Engineering in Topography, where knew to his husband (the one who also works today in the company) and took the decision to incorporate to this new business adventure, in principle, to carry the administrative tasks.

The beginnings of Industries Rasede were hard, by what this woman did not doubt in ‘putting the monkey of work' and present like an operator more in the workshop. Everything with the aim to sacar the new familiar project.

Began working with the conventional machines that there was by that period in the workshop (taladros of column, parallel lathe, fresadora, mandrinadora…), emulating, in a lot of cases, operations practically ‘artesanales' that already realised his father, Tomás García, and his grandfather, Rafael García. It was, definitely, a hard work, but what did it even more complicated were the humiliations and affronts to which had to confront usually by part of people that considered this exclusive profession of the men.

“Were some very difficult beginnings, happened it really bad. Memory that in those years there were people to which opened them the doors of the company and that denied to speak with me, demanding the presence of the ‘attendant'. There was even the one who separated me physically. Afterwards it came my brother, a quite big uncle as it will have been able to check during the visit, which threw them by the same door by which had gone in. No without before ensure them that I knew the business exactly the same that he”, signals Delia.

Fortunately the situation has changed for this enamoured woman of his profession, so much by the own evolution of the society and of the sector as by the experience that has gone purchasing she same along these more than 15 years, what does it be a person recognised by a lot of professionals of the sector. In fact, it is a faithful visitor of the Biennial of Bilbao. In spite of this still follows having some that another customer that surprises when seeing to a woman carrying the technical appearances of the company: “there are customers that in a first moment think that I am the secretary of the company, but when I begin to ask them technical questions on the planes that present us give account that were made a mistake”, adds Delia.

Today, this woman handles practically all the machines that there is in the workshop of Industries Rasede: machining centres, lathes, machines of cut, robot to solder, plasma of cut, fresadora, etc. Those that less employs, the plegadora and the punzonadora. It knows that this keeps on being a world mostly of men but trusts that every time they go incorporating more women to the workshops to do works of mechanised. It is more, although she keeps on being today the only woman in Industries Rasede, along these last 15 years also have gone through this company other two youngsters that have realised without problems works of welding and cutting, between other activities.

Unlike the usual specialisation of the companies of the sector in works of mechanised or of deformation of sheet, Industries Rasede characterises for gathering in his installations both activities. To be able to give this integral service and no externalizar any of the processes, the workshop has a wide variety of machinery, in which only they throw in fault curvadoras (for these works are used to to employ presses or folding machines).

After some beginnings in which good part of the work was centred in giving maintenance services to companies like Iberlift (specialist in carts) or Faurecia (specialist in automotive sector), today the pieces that manufactures go allocated especially to the sector of the construction and of the renewable energies (aerogeneradores).

His big speciality, from does years, is a destined piece to pilot prefabricated, for whose development is necessary to realise works of mechanised, of deformation and of welding.

As it affirms Delia, always try take long series, by the characteristics of the machines that compose the workshop of Industries Rasede, but this does not remove so that in occasions also have accepted projects that required series shorter.

In the year 2000 took place a fact of a big transcendence in the path of the company. This year Industries Rasede incorporated his first centre of mechanised, a Mikron VCE 750, that was the name with which began to distribute in Europe the model that later would happen to call Haas VF2. “They can not do an idea of how changed my life from that moment because what I had suffered mechanising taladro to taladro in the conventional machines suddenly did automatically, only with tightening a button”, explains Delia.

The handle and programming of this machine did not result him complicated in spite of not having any type of learning in language ISO or Conversational. “With the course that offered me of installation and set up was sufficient —adds—, although also it helped me a lot consult the manuals. In the cases in that I have needed external help, always have obtained answer, in spite of the changes that has suffered the distribution of these machines”. Besides, have learnt to program the robot to solder some years before incorporating the Mikron served him to Delia of ‘learning' to handle later another type of automatic machines.

Seen the good performance of this first machine Mikron-Haas, Industries Rasede incorporated in 2002 a second unit of the model Haas VF2, that only differentiated of the initial in that this has the vertical feeder and a cambiador Random faster, whereas in the first the feeder is horizontal. At the same time it added to the workshop a lathe Haas SL20 with feeder of bar Servo Bar 300. “We have taken out a lot of provecho of these three machines, since we devote us to do works of long series and of start of aggressive shaving, and the machines have answered perfectly”, says Delia.

Sure enough, the key element that decanted his election by these machining centres Haas is that they incorporate box of gears, what allows them work to few revolutions but with a lot of power. This is fundamental, as it explains Delia, when they want to do taladros direct of 40 mm, for example.

“Have the luck to be enamoured of my family and of my profession. Me enorgullece belong to the metallurgical sector, my work has me revertido a lot of satisfactions. It is incredible to see how transforms a piece of ironinging in a piece of utility for any sector”, concludes.