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Betoño and its subsidiary GTNec workshops bring together its distributors in Vitoria-Gasteiz

23/11/2006

At the annual meeting, held the past 5-6 October in Vitoria-Gasteiz presented commercial innovations and established the guidelines of the company for the next financial year 2007 to more than 60 domestic and foreign distributors.

The technical presentations were carried out by those responsible for the departments of destacan (Jose Maria Gil), r & d (David González), production and quality (Heriberto Arriolabengoa), and the S.A.T. (Raymond Izarra), who announced the releases to be undertaken during the last quarter of 2006 and in 2007. For its part, the news from the commercial point of view of policy of company, strategy and objectives for 2007 ran in charge of the new Director Manager Javier Chocán.

New hammers TABE

By the end of the year TABE will start marketing of 4 new hammers: AGB 95 light series, the AGB10 and AGB 575 media series, as well as the AGB 15 and 40 AGB (planned for 2007) of the heavy range.

During the meeting also was emphasized more than 20 years of experience of TABE in the manufacture of articulated arms. These auxiliary equipment used basically in the primary mills of the quarries, help to move and breaking blocks, either available or by its size, preventing the proper performance of the Crusher. TABE currently manufactures 7 models of arms, adapting them to the specific needs of each customer or sector.

GTNec completes its range of products

For its part GTNec now expands the range of mechanical coupling (GT-Plus) and hydraulic (GT-Flow) and incorporates a hydraulic coupling with correction of gaps. GTNec will also market a new models of milling machines, as well as the new BUT buckets for excavators from 1 to 45 t and incorporating a wide range of teeth and blades.

Key points of the business strategy

In addition to the figures that is expected to close this year, Javier Chocán communicated to the commercial network different zonal objectives, which are governed by an ambitious objective: achieving growth of turnover of 33% compared to the 2006 financial year.

The new director also took the opportunity to make known to all of us on the success of the negotiations carried out in China, which is expected the forthcoming implementation of the strategy of the company in the Asian continent.

The two major projects were finally presented for 2007. On the one hand the already commented launch of the new 40 AGB and its marketing strategy, and on the other hand, the introduction of a new automated test bench is being developed with the ITA (technological Institute of Aragon), your new technology partner.

This test centre will contribute not only to the measurement of new parameters (such as the noise emission levels), but it will help to provide the levels of fatigue of different models, and design of prototypes under such conduct.