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The Tabe firm consolidates its position in the rental market

15/10/2007

October 15, 2007

Signature Workshops Betoño, S.A., Tabe, offers more than 30 years of experience in the manufacture of hydraulic hammers and articulated arms. GTNec, its subsidiary company, distributes a wide range of products and implements for the sectors of construction, demolition and recycling, as machacadores buckets, hooks, rapid moorings and shears, among other equipment. Its position in the domestic market is based also of an excellent distribution network and a careful service of attention to the client, that made gala of 3 basic principles: provide reliable, low maintenance and very competitively priced products.

This philosophy has led them to achieve important agreements with major rental companies. The evolution of the market has been in vogue the rental of certain machinery and implements. Companies seek through this medium convert some fixed costs into variable costs. Also the rental allows customers to enjoy in each project of the most advanced technology in the market, as well as the machinery to adapt to each specific case and thus optimize costs in each project.

In the domestic market Gam, Axor Rental and HKL are between the client portfolio of Tabe-GTNec and on the French market rental of their products very goes hand in hand of Regis Loctaion. It companies with a spectacular growth in recent years. So for example Gam entered last year 87 million euros; It has 36 delegations, 800 employees and 21,000 equipment available for rent. Regis Locatio for its part, currently has 70 agencies in France and more than 10,000 pieces of machinery.

In 2006 12 per cent of the total of Tabe sold hammers went to rental companies and in 2007 is expected this figure to rise to 25 percent. Initially the type of sold hammers were fundamentally of the light range. Thus the AGB-75, AGB-100 or AGB-375 had been until then the most popular models. It's hammer of between 130 and 340 kilos of weight for excavators from 1.5 and 7 tons. From 2006 shows however a growing trend to purchase hammers of the heavy range. Highlight the AGB 12 and AGB 16 models. It's hammer of between 1,300 and 1,800 pounds of weight for excavators from 15 to 28 tonnes.

The alquiladores are looking for reliability, durability and low maintenance. The reliability of the products derived from an intense work in r & d. The head of this Department, David González Martín, stated that "the hammers of Tabe are today the most advanced from the technological point of view". The heavy range of Tabe is also the only hammer at the international level that does not incorporate straps. This automatically generates a drastic reduction in the number of breakdowns, and therefore the costs of maintenance of the hammer.