ALUCOAT, specialist in aluminium lacquering, in its determined commitment to Innovation and Development, has designed a foil with a coating specially developed by its R&D department that incorporated into lithium batteries with high energy capacity notably improves their conductive properties.

Its new product, whose purpose is to improve the useful life of batteries and electrical equipment, increases conductivity and reduce electric resistance, up to 15% compared with to the competition as well as 30% compared to bare aluminium, it also improves the adhesion of the metal to the electrode and the resistance to corrosion caused by the electrolyte itself. All this implies greater performance and useful life of batteries. It is therefore, a material developed to satisfy a new market, oriented especially to automotive sector but with a wide variety of applications for other type products such as semi-satellites, home automation, drones and electric scooters among others.

In turn, this novel product also collaborates with the Sustainable Development Goals (SGD), contributing to “Responsible consumption and production” (SGD 12), and “Climate action” (SGD 13).

ALUCOAT, new challenges, new developments and new goals.

After two years of intensive research and development, RedBOND introduces the new RedBOND Advanced to the large format digital printing market. It is a unique product worldwide with very high digital printing features, endorsed by the certification of the American multinational HP.

Madrid, December 17,2020.- RedBOND, a Grupo Aliberico’s company specialized in the production of aluminium panels for digital printing, has launched the new product RedBOND Advanced, the first and only aluminium composite panel worldwide that has managed to be certified by HP for its latex inks.

RedBOND Advanced is the result of two intense years of research and development work carried out by a technical and multidisciplinary team that has included technicians from Alucoat Conversion, specialists in lacquering aluminium coils, and professionals from HP, a specialized American company in printing technologies.

The new RedBOND Advanced manages to solve the printing problems of this type of formats, achieving a much more vivid printing finishes, in which the images seem to come alive. In addition, thanks to its technology, the inks adhere uniformly and with great force to the surface, avoiding any detachment of the ink on the panel. The results have been collated in various technologies and manufacturers of large format printers, as well as in latex technology, the ecological alternative to conventional solvent ink, developed by HP.

The unique characteristics of RedBOND Advanced, which have allowed it to be the first and only aluminium composite panel in the world to be certified by HP for its latex inks, resistant to water and without emitting harmful odors, and the fact that it is made of aluminium, infinitely recyclable material, make this product the most environmentally friendly solution (SDG 13).

About RedBOND

Located in Alicante, and with a strategy based on research and technological innovation, RedBOND has revolutionized the sector of aluminium composite panels for digital printing, to the point of having reduced its delivery times to just two weeks.

The company exports more than 90% of its production, supplying mainly to the European and North African markets, and will soon do so also to the North American market.

Since the beginning of its operations in 2012, the company has not stopped growing, having tripled its turnover in the last 4 years and doubled its workforce and production capacity through various investments. In addition, it has recently acquired land for the construction of a second factory in Alicante.

Clemente González Soler, President of Aliberico, official sponsor of the Olympia las Rozas Women’s Football Club, kicked off the second day of the Real Federación Madrileña de Fútbol Preferente Femenino Juvenil League last Saturday, November 28. The match was also attended by the Sports Councillor of the Las Rozas Town Hall, Mr. Juan Cabrera, who also supported women’s soccer.

It was an exciting match in which the high technical level of the Olympia players, with a great dose of illusion and effort, resulted in a 4-1 victory. The first goal of the CFF Olympia Las Rozas also came with a very special detail dedicating it to the granddaughter of the President of Aliberico, also present there.

Aliberico, proud sponsor of the preferential youth team of the Women’s Football Club Olympia Las Rozas, is committed to sport, health and wellbeing (SDG 3), gender equality and equal opportunities (SDG 5).

The Group plans to build a new, fully digitized and sustainable plant in 2021 to increase the export of its RedBOND composite panels.

Madrid, November 20th – Aliberico, the leading Spanish and European family group manufacturing semi-processed aluminium products, chaired by Clemente González Soler, has closed the purchase of land from Repsol in Alicante, located in Avenida de Elche, to build its second factory in this city.

Aliberico already has a factory in Alicante belonging to its subsidiary, RedBOND Composites, which was created in 2012 with the start-up of a production line for aluminium panels for digital printing. In 2018 a second manufacturing line was installed, built with in-house technology, to expand its production capacity and diversify its product range, achieving in terms of dimmensions the largest panels on the market. The company manufactures products specially designed for digital printing and corporate image and its quality is recognized and approved by the main printer manufacturers worldwide.

The acquisition of this land and the construction of the new factory reflects the growth that this company has experinced, investing in industry and innovation and achieving agreements with the most important European distributors in the sector and with a clear international vocation, exporting more than 95% of its production.

On the land acquired from Repsol, Aliberico will build a new plant in 2021, adjacent to its current facilities, which will consist of an industrial building of 7,500 square meters specially designed to reach the American markets, especially the United States where the Group already has a presence through its subsidiary Alucoil North America, which owns a plant of 81,000m2 in South Carolina.

Despite the difficult situation of global crisis, Aliberico continues to invest in industry and innovation. The design and construction of this new plant will be based on an efficient and sustainable building with a high level of digitalization.

On September 18th, the new „Fast – Ferry“ of the company BALEARIA, the catamaran ship Eleanor Roosvelt, was launched.

Built by Astilleros Armón, in Gijón, this fast ferry is 123 meters long and 28 meters wide. It is built entirely in aluminium and is the first in the world to be powered by liquid gas, a great advance in the care of the environment and the marine environment.

ALUCOIL, manufacturer of advanced materials for building, industry and transport, has supplied, through OLIVER DESIGN, the company responsible for the interior fitting out, larcore® panels in different finishes, which have been installed in the bulkheads, ceilings and doors of the different interior areas of the ship.

larcore® is a sandwich panel with an aluminium honeycomb core, formed in a continuous industrial process and certified according to the international IMO MED standards for its application in the naval sector. It is an extremely light and resistant material and its excellent properties make it easy to machine and perfect for naval applications. In addition, it is very rigid, and resistant to tension and compression loads.

This is how ALUCOIL, in its commitment to industry, innovation and infrastructure (SDG 9) contributes to the creation of more sustainable and pioneering ships in the market.

ALUCOIL MARINE, advanced solutions for maritime transport.