Viuda de Rafael Estevan Giménez, S.L. - La Viuda - Contact data

Founded in 1928, VDA. OF RAFAEL ESTEVAN GIMÉNEZ, S.L. It was devoted in his starts to the manufacture of blinds wooden and carpentry.
In the year 1965 produces a twist in his program of production and creates a solid base like manufacturer of profiling of 5 to 6 metres in PVC that arrives until the actuality, with the positioning to be the greater manufacturers of Spain inside our sector. We have of 20 lines of extrusion and 4 of coextrusión in new technology of high performance, own section for the mixed and granceado of chemical products components of the PVC, and his back granulated in more than 130 tonalities of the letter RAL in stock for drawer monoblock in 155 deposits or silos independent. Subsequently they have gone incorporated a lot of articles more, by norm protected industrialmente.
The company is endowed of a Laboratory Certified of Analysis and plastic Essays and two areas of essays for certification CE, as well as Department of R&D composed by a skilled human team. It is member of the Technical Committee of the Group of Blinds, Awnings and his Accessories, of the Spanish Association of Manufacturers of Windows (ASEFAVE), in addition to the Technological Institute AIJU. Thanks to all this, our company has been able to create and manufacture good part of products leaders in the market of the sector, having of the copyright and the Patent of the majority of them: at present more than 50 registered.
VDA. OF RAFAEL ESTEVAN GIMÉNEZ, LaViuda, account in the actuality with the providers of raw materials more important, of prestigious national and international reputation, like the group SOLVIN or BASF, for the manufacture of our products in PVC, and the group NOVELIS-ALCAN, for our line of business in aluminium. Besides, with the confidence of qualified customers and distributors in the sectors of the construction and the design no only in Spain, but in other countries of Europe, Sudamérica, north of Africa and Asia.
And inside this politics of internationalisation that LaViuda comes carrying out, is important to stand out the fulfillment with the technical requirements that the French market imposes to the products of PVC through his Organism of Certification LNE of the Mark NF-132 for PVC of external use, having achieved said certification in the formulation and manufacture of all our offer of profiles of persiana of PVC in France, in his complete range of white colours, beige and grey, and having besides (like the rest of catalogue of profiles of LaViuda), of his corresponding essays of Resistance to the Wind for the Marked CE and of his Classification of Reaction to the Fire M1.
The company occupies, in an industrial polygon typical of 32.000 m2, a surface built of 18.000 m2 of ships of new construction, instrumented with machinery of last technology. It has the compliance and marked CE for persiana of PVC and aluminium and for door enrollable of aluminium, respectively, and with the whole of certificates of different provision of drawer for persiana that demand the current rules. Besides, fulfilling with the requirements of the norms harmonised for the marked CE relative to the blinds enrollables and lattices, LaViuda has of own laboratory certificate of analysis and plastic essays and of two banks for the realisation of his own essays of resistance to the wind according to the norm JOINS-IN 1932, allowing know the behaviour of the cloths of persiana in front of the actions of the wind. All the profiles of persiana have been classified taking into account all the possible combinations of installation and useful widths. Also it has implanted the systems of Quality ISO 9001: 2000 and of Environingingmental Management ISO 14001: 2004.