The factory of Isover fulfils 50 years
16 December 2013
Since on 8 October 1963, the minister of industry of the period inaugurated the factory of
Nowadays, the plant of Saint-Gobain Isover, that heaves on 90.000 square metres where work more than 250 employees to produce until 70.000 tonnes of mineral wools, situates to the avant-garde of the European industry.
Isover Forms part of Polo Products Construction of the Group Saint-Gobain, a division with 45.000 employees all over the world, delivered in 250 societies and that supposes 26% of the figure of sales all over the world.
The strong investments realizar in the last decade in the installations of Isover, in Azuqueca of Henares, have turned it into the plant with fewer broadcasts of CO2 of his category in Spain and Portugal. Whereas the broadcasts of CO2 in Spain have grown more than 47% from 1990, the factory of mineral wools Isover has diminished them to the half.
Is a clean industry that works with recyclable natural materials and reutiliza 100% of the waters that participate in the process industrial. Besides, every year they realizar more than one thousand actions in all the fields of the hygiene, with what has achieved a drastic reduction of the accidentalidad industrial. The Social Responsibility earns every year greater leadership in the factory, developing programs like the School of Back, Campaigns Dermatológicas and Physiotherapy or Campaigns of Sensitisation of hygiene Vial, that have allowed to extend the field of the hygiene to the home and to the families, doing of the hygiene an attitude in the life and of Isover a healthy company.
To celebrate the 50 anniversary, the factory organised recently two days of open doors so that the familiar of the workers could know better what is Isover Saint-Gobain, the products and systems that commercialises, his productive processes and to the people that make it possible.
Pablo Bellido, mayor of Azuqueca of Henares, participated in the acts of closure and in the homage to the workers that have fulfilled 25 years in the company along 2013, showing once again the support that always has loaned the City council to the company.