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Soraluce amplía su gama actual de fresadoras-mandrinadorasIn this way, you can offer to the market machines of more than 6 metres of vertical travel
Soraluce expands its current range of milling-boring machines
March 30, 2009
The Guipuzcoan firm specialized in milling,
Soraluce, made an excellent exercise in which obtained an increase in the turnover of 35% and a percentage of export of 90%. Record of broad and diversified collection of orders for the year 2007, a favourable international environment until the middle of the year 2008 and the achievement of a customer base, geographic markets and sectors, the figure they have led to a strong productive activity 2008.
In 2008 met also 20 years since the production and presentation in the market of the first milling Soraluce in the fair AMB in Stuttgart in September 1988. In that year, Soraluce decided to reorient the activity of the company towards the design and manufacture of milling machines as a unique and distinctive product, thus taking advantage of the knowledge and skills that the company had acquired in the machining of prismatic parts since its founding in 1962, although through another new technology, the milling.
Since then, Soraluce has developed a complete range of machines and advanced technology and high-performance, heads into its volume of business and competitive strategy and international one concerning world in the design and manufacture of milling machines. Guipuzcoa, belonging to the Danobat Group and integrated in the Mondragon Corporation, company focuses its commercial activity in already established markets of Western Europe (Germany, Spain and Italy mainly) and in new emerging markets such as China, India and Russia.
Faced with the growing demand of mechanization of parts of large dimensions for sectors such as energy generation, shipbuilding and mechanical general, Soraluce is immersed in the expansion of its current range of milling-boring machines
New project
The realization of the new company (based on the concentration in milling and boring machines, internationalization, quality and service to the client) has supported in the development of three key strategic vectors (management, product development and market development) and the establishment of long-term sustainable relationships with customers, strategic suppliers and partners.
Recent examples of this active policy of partnerships are putting up over the last year of Lakber (workshop of machining of components for the wind sector, formed along with the smelter Sakana) and the contract for the supply of two milling SP and TA to CVS (of wagons South company), company that emerged from the partnership of Caf, Gallardo group, Gea 21 and Fesur and dedicated to the manufacture of cars and railway bogies. The aforementioned contract, includes in addition to the two milling, the 'know-how' necessary for the production of the same: process of machining, tools of last generation, tools, training of operators and assistance in the production of the first units. All of these are adapted to the productive requirements of CVS.
New Assembly HallFaced with the growing demand of machining parts of large dimensions for sectors such as energy generation, shipbuilding and mechanical general, Soraluce is immersed in the expansion of its current range of milling-boring machines of great size and power, in order to thus provide market machines of more than six metres of vertical travel. To this end, the company is currently in the process of construction of a new Hall of Assembly of 2,000 m2 and a height to the bridge crane of 14 meters, it will be operational in June and which will involve a total investment of five million euros.
The company is currently in the process of construction of a new Hall of Assembly of 2,000 m2.
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