On 16th November, IBERFOIL received an award for ‘Business Excellence’ presented by the Government of Aragon and received by Aurora Rodríguez, the General Manager. The award was given during the presentation of the 2016 Excellence Awards, hosted by Javier Lambán, President of Aragon.

The ceremony took place at the Congress Center of Zaragoza and gave recognition to companies that have participated the most in the development of Aragon. Among them IBERFOIL, thanks to a strong investment in machinery and training of new professionals in the area.

In addition to IBERFOIL, other companies such as Mann Hummel and Itesal were also honored in the category for the 2016 Business Excellence Awards, while General Motors received the 20th Anniversary Honor Award for Business Excellence.

The ceremony was closed by Marta Gastón, Councilor of Economy, Industry and Employment of Aragon who visited the facilities of IBERFOIL in August 2015 coinciding with the company’s first anniversary.

The President of Alibérico Group, Clemente González Soler, was on Canal Innova Burgos this past Thursday, September 29th, participating in a platform created by Norte Group that transmits to the public success stories regarding the culture of Innovation.

Clemente González Soler was part of the ‘Table of Experts’, moderated by journalist and television presenter Pedro Piqueras, which also brought together José Rolando Álvarez, president of North Group; Verónica Pascual, CEO of ASTI, and Álvaro Bernad, director of Disruptive Innovation Quality Pascual. The President of Alibérico alluded to innovation as an attitude that should involve all employees at the Company.

During the conversation he stressed the capacity of this asset in becoming a differentiating factor that attracts new clients and helps retain current ones. He encouraged government to continue investing in science and research -“the capital letter I of the system,” he said, but without forgetting about “the lower case letter i” of , which fully affects the competitiveness of the companies. And remember, said Gonzalez, that “more than the optimization is the innovation in processes, services and products” which generates value and wealth to companies and society.

Once again, ALUCOIL sales and technical teams will attend the 2 most important transport trade shows in Europe to introduce aluminium honeycomb panellarcore ® solutions for this sector. On one side, from 6th to 9th of September, SMM, a leading maritime industry trade show, will take place at Hamburg.

ALUCOIL will have its own booth on Hall B5 Stand 104, in an appointment that gathers together more than 2.100 exhibitors from 60 countries. ALUCOIL will provide the most efficient solutions for this industry developed with larcore ®.

On the other side, Innotrans is a rail sector trade show that will take place from September 20th to September 23rd at Berlin. ALUCOIL will be present on its booth 318 placed at Hall 5.1. More than 2.700 exhibitors will participate on this key event for rail sector.

Floors, ceilings, ramps… come and visit ALUCOIL stands on these 2 fairs and get to know what possibilities larcore ® can offer for transport sector.

The R&D department of ALUCOAT works constantly in alternative materials that provide the adequate protection and the most resistance to our customers’ products. In this case those in the food sector. linfoil ® coated aluminum coils of ALUCOAT specially designed for the production of lids used in yogurts, desserts, jams, butter, among others.

This product offers solutions in coated aluminum ideal for every customer and guarantees the freshness and conservation of foods’ properties.

Thanks to its excellent properties, linfoil ® allows to be heat sealed to a wide variety of materials (plastics such as PET, PS, PP and PVC, glass, among others), having a good printability and high resistance against external agents (light, moisture, among others).

Moreover, for those foods whose composition requires special attributes, ALUCOAT has a special product with anticorrosive properties and resistance to the most common sterilization process in the food industry.

Since last December, IBERFOIL has been working towards an ambitious expansion project with the installation of a new slitting line and a new laminator capable of a 1.700 meter width. The plant in Sabiñánigo, which is dedicated to the manufacture of high quality aluminum foil, is going to finish this year with production of nearly 14,000 tons. This would show an increase of 50% when compared to last year – 2015.

Nowadays, the plant has a total capacity of 20,000 tons of aluminum foil and is the only such in Spain with these types of products and market solutions. The new expansion will mean an additional 40,000 tons of capacity added to its current production limit and will increase thickness options for the range of standard products. At the moment, IBERFOIL is immersed totally in both the construction of the new slitting line and the new laminator that will be responsible for the additional capacity.

The new machinery will start its working tests in March 2017, an important challenge for the technical department of IBERFOIL and for the engineering company RDI from the FAGOR group, which is collaborating and working on all technical aspects of the project.