Atlas Copco celebrates 140 years of innovation in the industry
25 February 2013
“Celebrate 140 years is a glorious opportunity to reinforce even more the orientation to the customer, reflect our values in the daily activities and take advantage of the synergies”, self-evident José Manuel Funcia, vice-president of the Holding of Atlas Copco in Spain. “It is a big occasion to generate pride between the employees and do that they seat ilusionados by the opportunities of the future. Our history guarantees a wide industrial experience as well as solutions and innovative products for the current and potential customers, for the providers and also for the current employees and the ones of the morning”.
Other evento that have celebrated all over the world include the inauguration of a plant of manufacture of compressesors near of Pune, India, a donation of 60 one thousand USD for the projects of drinkable water of the organisation ‘Water for All' of Atlas Copco in United States, as well as several memorial evento in more than 90 countries in the world.
In atlascopco.com/history is available for his download a podcast with an interesting history in audio of this industrial icon. In the section of history also can find a new eBook that describes some of the numerous attainments of Atlas Copco during the last 140 years.
Atlas Copco develops and supplies machinery, like hammers perforadores, industrial tools, equipment of construction and compressesors for customers of industries that cover from the automotive sector, the minería, the construction of roads until the aerospace industry, feeding and drunk and pharmaceutical products.
The past month, Atlas Copco won a place in Global 100, the ranking of corporate sustainability more prestigious. Global 100 distinguished to Atlas Copco by his commitment with the responsible productivity as well as by his work and attainments in doing more with less: for example, the development of new innovative products, of high energetic efficiency, that at the same time that save money to the customers, are beneficial for the environingingment.
The dilated history of Atlas Copco has multiple innovations in technology tip. It fits to stand out the introduction of the first light hammers in 1905, the manufacture of the first compressesor of air transportable in this same year, the introduction in 1966 of the first hydraulics hammers of the world manufactured in series and the launching of new tools of tighten of low consumption and to proof of errors.
Atlas Copco has participated in a lot of emblematic projects to world-wide level. The collaboration in the construction of the tunnel Mont Blanc through the border francoitaliana in the years fifty and sixty, in that period the tunnel of road longer of the world, went one of them. In the decade of the eighty, the name of Atlas Copco was included in the denomination of a new species of dinosaur – Atlascopcosaurus Lourdsi – in gratitude to the machinery and the assistance that the company loaned to dig up the skeleton of said species in Australia.
Atlas Copco has expanded constantly his global presence. For example, it established his own companies of sales in Kenia in 1936, in the United States in 1950 and in Indian in 1960. The past year engrosaron the list other seven countries, included Senegal and Tanzania. Atlas Copco develops in the actuality his activities in more than 170 countries.
