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Giravi continúa invirtiendo para hacer realidad sus planes de crecimientoThe company made new agreements with ENGEL incorporating eight injectors Engel of last generation, and prepares an extension of 1,400 square metres this year
Giravi continues to invest to realize its growth plans
Growing up is a matter of will. This apparent truism is that encourages the signing Giravi, a company dedicated to the development and manufacture of plastic parts, to undertake a growth plan which has as objective, the expansion in international markets.
So far this wish, "this desire to grow" as described by its CEO, Joan Giralt, have led to an agreement with the manufacturer of machinery Engel at the last fair K'2001 in Düsseldorf, that has been through its represented Helmut RoegeleIt has provided for signature eight machines of different Tn. of last generation. Plans also include an expansion of 1,400 square meters, so the area of factory will increase to 5,400 square meters. And it is only the beginning: the company is looking for new land to build another production center.
The eight machines, newly installed, new, are perfectly aligned, in one of the wings of the warehouse of Giravi. They have already begun to work. "This type of machine of new generation is highly targeted to very technical pieces", explains Giralt, and continues: "the fuel transfer Engel is a type of very competitive machine, perhaps the most competitive that currently exists in the market, because it has a very special feature"": they are machines that do not include columns and this greatly increases its versatility".
The acquisition of these eight machines is part of a policy of expansion of the productive capacity that the company started in 1999 and which also includes the automation of production lines. On the other hand highlight the continuing commitment in research and development (r & d) Department as a part of the investment made during these recent years has gone to his creation and expansion.
The agreement of collaboration include the technical training that Engel taught Giravi operators.
In addition to the agreement with Engel, Giravi is participating in a number of projects with institutions such as the technological center of Vilanova (Barcelona), the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, CIM, ASCAMM Centre, and the University of les Heures in order to enhance the research applied to the injection of thermoplastics.
Giravi managers are confident for the future. "The market offers good prospects and the balance of the consumption of plastics in Spain is higher than countries such as Great Britain or Japan", explains the commercial director of the firm, Agustí Turull, and adds: "the prospects are good because the plastic is a lightweight material"insulating and increasingly more respectful with the environment. "On the other hand the levels of quality of the injected parts reach higher standards".
Strategic plan
Giravi growth plan was designed in 1997 and includes the objective of reaching a turnover of 3 billion pesetas in the year 2005. The plan is based on capabilities techniques the company invest in the development of projects and quality to prevail. In the words of the commercial director of the company, Agustí Turull, the idea is to move in a system of integrated quality (which include, in addition to the current certification ISO 9002, occupational hazards and environmental requirements).
Giravi opted for quality to compete with the arrival of manufactured plastics of Asian countries and Eastern Europe. He is of low quality products at really affordable prices against which they can only compete betting on the overall quality that includes products and services. An example of the pursuit of the overall quality is the objective of introducing the company in the value chain of its customers, through the acquisition of printing equipment offset and pad printing, of automated, and Assembly of parts and assemblies by providing logistics and reducing costs.
Innovation has been understood as a strategic process of the company. Giravi currently has a technical team of high qualification and tools of last generation's design 3D and CAD / CAE, with which carry out rheological and structural simulations.
Giravi does more than build what customers tell that studying its feasibility, design and functionality.
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