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Ficosa International recibe la Medalla de Honor al Fomento de la InvenciónFicosa International Receives the Medal of Honour to the Promotion of the Invention
Josep Maria Pujol, president of Ficosa, has received the Medal of Honour to the Promotion of the Invention, conceded to Ficosa International, S.A. The act, celebrated in Madrid, in the headquarters of the Upper Council of Scientific Investigations, was chaired by Emilio Lora-Tamayo, president of the CSIC, the one who did delivery of the award. They accompanied him, between other personalities, Pedro García-Cabrerizo, president of the Foundation García Cabrerizo.
During the speech, Josep Maria Pujol, wanted to stand out two messages that has tried to live and transmit to all his collaborators from his starts. The first of them is that “the difference between the possible and the impossible measures with the will of the man”. The second underlines his way to understand the company: “live the present, foresee the future, take decisions and hit them”.
Josep Maria Pujol, president of Ficosa.
With this recognition, Ficosa goes back to situate like one of the big Spanish companies that have decided to follow betting by the invention still in time of crisis. No in vain, in the actuality has registered something more than 700 patents related with the world of the car.
The Foundation García Cabrerizo is cream in 1977 like personal initiative of Francisco García Cabrerizo, empeñado in promoting the invention inside the fields of the Science and the Industry, in a moment historical of Spain in that the investigation and the development were not in the ‘diary' political neither in the social debate.
Ficosa Is an industrial group Spanish of reference in investigation, development, production and commercialisation of systems and components for vehicles to world-wide level. The company, founded the 1949, has his central headquarters in Barcelona and has a global team of some 8.500 people all over the world, with factories, technical centres and commercial offices in 19 countries of Europe, North America, south America and Asia.
The Group allocates 4% of the figure of business to R&D and has of one of the technology centres more important of Spain devoted to the car, the electronics equipment dealers equipment dealers, the power and the communications. Ficosa encara The future with a business more internacionalizado and diversified and with products of greater value added, with the aim to turn into company leader in the field of the electronic systems linked to the hygiene, the communications and the energetic efficiency.
