El pasado domingo el prestigioso diario El País publicó un artículo sobre CARBURES y su innovadora actividad que la está llevando a ser cada vez más valorada por el mercado y sus grupos de interés.
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Last Sunday the renowned newspaper El País published and article about CARBURES and its innovative activity, a fact that is heading the company to be more valued by the market and its stakeholders.
We share with you the mentioned article.
The profitable lightness of things
CARBURES, carbon fiber manufacturer for Airbus and Boeing, has acquired a company in the U.S. and it is working on space travels.
We are dedicated to reducing the weight of things. "Rafael Contreras, CEO of CARBURES, speaks as XXI century alchemist. Unlike in the Middle Ages, this company does not seek to transform lead into gold, its value is to develop resistant parts, but very light, thanks to the carbon fiber. Emerged as a Spin-off of the University of Cadiz, the group is burning stages at high speed. A year ago it started quoting at Alternative Stock Market for SME (MAB), it has bought a company in the U.S., their nets are already in the Chinese markets, its clients are aeronautics sector giants as Airbus and Boeing , and as a cherry on the cake, it works on private flights program to space.
"We are at a turning point," sums up the CEO of CARBURES. "In 2013 we will start noticing in our industrial capacity the investment made in the last years." This year will be the third one for the group in its venture in the U.S. and they expect to consolidate the business figures obtained there. Indeed, across the Atlantic Ocean they have closed the acquisition of Fiberdyne.
"The transaction accelerates the process of entering into a very important market," states Contreras.
The strategic plan of CARBURES is quite ambitious . Among other objectives is to quadruple its profits in 2014. "Not only we are able to get accomplished those goals, but getting them overcome." The aeronautics industry, for what we are suppliers, has aircraft orders secured for a period of 20 years. In addition, the market that will grow the most will be the Asian one, where it will take place the 30% of aircraft orders next year.
"To this we must add that, for reasons of cost reduction in fuel consumption, the sector have shifted from building aircraft that had only 3% of carbon fiber parts to manufacture aircrafts with more than 50% of components made in this material. "
CARBURES wants to diversify its sources of incomes to reduce the dependence of aeronautics sector, strengthening its presence in other industries such as civil engineering and transport (automotive industry). "The goal is that 50% of sales come from the aeronautics business, and the remainder from other industries. We were very close to meet this goal in 2012 ."
The company started quoting at Alternative Stock Market in march 2012. Since then, shares have risen about 50%. Managers are satisfied with the decision of jumping into the stock exchange, since quoting has provided transparency and visibility to investors. In fact, since we are in the stock exchange CARBURES haS made several capital increases, the last, this week, valued at three million euros, which has had a significant overdemand.
Will CARBURES pay dividends ever? "The end of 2012 has been more positive than we had anticipated when we started to quote at stock exchange, and that will probably modify certain policies, but, at the present moment, we have nothing decided " concludes Contreras.