Installations of The Industrial Algodonera.
Betitex it is a project of investigation and development that initiated on 1 November 2013, with a length of 36 months. It is cofinanciado with bottoms of the 7º Program Mark of the European Union (FP7/2007-2013), grant agreement number 606517, and has a budget of 1.560.604 €. Has like aim obtain able materials to provide protection in front of chinches and garrapatas, arthropods of medical and veterinary importance all over the world. It expects obtain a high durability of the effect repelente/insecticide.
The Industrial Algodonera, S.A. incorporates to the project, that already consisted of 9 partners of diverse countries, and the coordination by part of the Institut Industrial (Gremi Tèxtil of Terrassa). The company it is a familiar company, created the year 1918, situated in the place of the Jungle of the Camp (Tarragona) and managed at present by the fourth generation of the family will fit. It has a staff of 40 workers and some installations of 14.000 m2, for the manufacture of thread multifilamento and monofilamento of polipropileno, ropes and stravel. The year 2013, the turnover of the company was of 4 million euros delivered in the 5 continents, representing the export 60% of the turnover.
The entrance of The Industrial Algodonera, S.A. in the consortium of the project Betitex, that already has the participation of 3 SMEs Europeans more, reinforces especially the phase of industrialisation of the results of the investigation.
