Interview to Ángel Iribarren, manager of Carpentry Iribarren
In what has consisted the modernisation of the park of machinery in Carpentry Iribarren?
Have substituted an angular, a clavijadora and a centre of mechanised by an only machine where can realise all the process of manufacture of the window; even the mechanised of pieces curves, insertion of herrajes and tubillones, etc. For this change have had the advice and experience of Machinery Elkor, S.L.
What first effects have noticed with the set up of the new line?
With the new centre of mechanised have improved in flexibility and optimisation of processes. We avoid intermediate manipulation of the profiles. The machine gives us back all the pieces mechanised and only have to arm the window.
It treats of a flexible machine, or conceived for big series?
Is an essentially flexible machine. It can do at the same time innumerable distinct windows. It carries integrated cheese cheese an own software, called DDX, that serves to design the enclosures and later pilots the machine.
How it is the window that manufactures Iribarren in the actuality?
Have a wide and prolonged experience in the manufacture of windows, betting always by the R&D like road of improvement and differentiation in the market.
Manufacture a window whose natural market is the one of the passive houses or of high energetic efficiency. His profile has 90 millimetres of thickness (GO 90-102) and a thermal sensors transmittance certified of 0,9 (w/m2K). Our standard product (GO 78-90) incorporates a profile of 78 mm of thickness.
In both measures do a mixed window, that incorporates the revestimiento external in aluminium. To all they can them incorporate triple glass.
Which wooden species employ mainly?
At present are using especially brown. Recently we spent 80% of iroko, but of face to the future have bet decididamente by autochthonous species, including of course the pine and even the oak. All this laminado.
And how they are finished these windows?
Have subcontracted the service of glazed with Glazed Leaburu. The barniz applied in our profiles is a treatment to open pore. The herrajes employed are of MACO; that has a herraje of quality, with a wide range of solutions and an excellent technical department.
Which is the natural customer of Carpentry Iribarren?
Treats of small promotions, singular villas and reforms; in Basque Country and Navarra. Like carpenters of all the life, install we same the enclosures, with selladores and foams of Soudal. Also we sell windows to small carpenters installers.
How it sees the future of the wooden window in his market?
The wooden window, in a recent past, has been punished by the competitive market of the construction, centred in the price, and forgetting appearances so important like the provision and the quality of the product. The present is difficult, because of the coyuntura economic. But the future that avista is clear, a sustainable construction and of energetic efficiency, with products of high provision and quality, and am convinced that ours wooden windows will win quota of market.
Like member of Shows, the Spanish Association of Manufacturers of wooden and Mixed Windows Wood-Aluminium , considers that thanks to his work has advanced in the promotion and prescription of this type of enclosures?
The association of the manufacturers of wooden windows and his providers is paramount. We have to be joined and struggle together to attain increase the quota of market. If we act each one by our account do not have at all that do.
