From Carbures, we have taken actions to help those affected by the earthquake that occurred on September 19 in Mexico. Our campaign to collect food and equipment is helping people who, unfortunately, have been forced to temporarily change their lives with the move to storage centers that were enabled in Mexico City. Healing material, pantry, cleaning supplies, food and water are the items that were collected in our offices.

Likewise, Carbures management is maintaining a continuous contact with the civil protection officers of Mexico City in order to support one of the things we know about best: engineering. We have proposed to carry out urgent analysis on the affected infrastructure, an initiative that would help to better cope with this situation. This initiative can prioritize the repair of the most susceptible and most suffered from the earthquake. [...]

Carbures presents the corporate video of its Aerospace & Defense division. It has been recorded in the different aeronautical locations of the Company, both in Spain and abroad, and it shows the products, equipment and processes of the three business lines of the area: Engineering, Manufacturing and Systems.

Carbures Aerospace & Defense broke its record of manufactured parts in 2016, reaching 45,695 units. The company continues openning markets and getting new customers, such as the recent contract with the Belgian Tier 1 SABCA, in addition to announcing the start of the works of adaptation of a new 11,000 m2 plant in Getafe that will house new processes for Carbures, such as painting , thus completing the entire productive cycle.[...]

Carbures strengthens its corporate and management area with the addition of a new CFO. The Board of Directors of Carbures has today agreed to appoint Jorge Moreno García as the new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) with the aim of increasing the Company's senior management team to face the growth and industrial reality of Carbures.

Moreno has a 14-year professional experience in corporate and fundamentally financial consulting for large companies with a solid track record in corporate operations. He has been present in strategic projects, mergers and acquisitions, both nationally and internationally, in sectors such as industry, construction, energy, consumption and distribution, technology and telecommunications. [...]

Carbures strengthens its industrial position with a new factory in Getafe (Madrid) that will double the production capacity of its current factory in Illescas. The leading company in Spain and a European reference in the manufacture of aircraft parts in composite materials will open a new factory in Madrid in 2019. The new factory, of 11,000 square meters over a total area of 17,000 m2, will be located in Getafe, near Airbus , in the Spanish central aeronautical pole, the most important along with that of Seville, where it also operates. The beginning of the adaptation of the new factory is one of the Company's major industrial milestones in its more than 18 years of history. The new Getafe plant will assume production of the current Illescas (Toledo) plant, with 4,563 square meters of production area, and will have the technological and industrial capacity to double it. In addition, Carbures will thus be a more competitive company and will reduce its production costs. [...]

Carbures continues to grow in the automotive sector. Carbures Mobility has just signed a contract with a reference Tier 1 automotive sector by which the Company provides assembly lines for the manufacture of windshields in a long series for 2.24 million euros . This is the second contract signed with this manufacturer. (Carbures can´t reveal the name due to a confidentiality agreement).

This contract includes both the engineering of this product - to be developed in Manresa (Barcelona) - and its manufacture, which will take place in Querétaro (Mexico). The assembly line of four-pole windshield engines, with a manufacturing time of 13 seconds per unit, will be installed in the Mexican plant of San Luis Potosí of this manufacturer. [...]

Carbures Mobility, has just signed a new contract with a global automotive Tier 1 installed in Brazil that covers the South American market. The purpose of this contract, which amounts to 835,000 euros, is the design and manufacture of a palletized test line.

Including Brazil, we are already operating in 11 countries in 3 continents from Automotive, Aerospace & Defense and Civil Works: Germany, France, Poland, Spain, China, Singapore, USA, Mexico, Chile and Turkey.

The experience of Carbures, and its technological leadership worldwide, are the reasons why this global automotive supplier has decided to hire Carbures for the Brazilian market. Both the design and manufacture of the test line will be carried out in Spain in its entirety, after which it will be transferred to the American country. [...]

Carbures keeps accomplishing its business and organic growth plan. The company’s Mobility division, has opened a new plant at Suzhou’s industrial park, in the province of Jiantsu (China), with two strategic goals: to serve its main clients (current and new ones, which are Tier 1 of reference in the automobile sector) locally; as well as to increase the Company’s turnover in the Asian market. With a 900m2 area, the new plant complements the service of its commercial and technical office in Shanghai. Carbures accumulates 57 million euros of total sales in the Asian market since 2005.

Carbures foresees a fast production growth in the new plant of Suzhou, similar to that from its Polish and Mexican plants. In this one, it will make assembly machines for different automobile components related to the navigation, safety, production and other test technologies. The new facilities of Carbures Mobility are part of the international expansion of the Company within the Asian market. [...]

The industrial sector is experiencing a historic moment, and Carbures is in the forefront of that trend. In Industry 4.0, machines, production facilities and warehouse systems are able to exchange information autonomously, track actions and control each other, generating major improvements in the industrial processes involved in production, engineering and service. This fourth industrial revolution promises to unite two worlds, the manufacturing industry and the next generation of Information Technology, creating a new level of efficiency.

As we have been announcing recently from Carbures Machinery, our collaborative robots are already running on plants in the US and Japan, as well as our own R & D developments from Aerospace & Defense, such as the Hiro robot, used in our own factories. The Company continues having Technology at the center of its being, not only in its products, but also in its own management. [...]