Posted 05/18/2018 11: 36: 36CET
MADRID, May 18 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Carbures has signed a new contract with a global Tier1 in Mexico for which it provides seven lines of electronic address testing, in high production, for 1.6 million euros, as reported by the company on Friday.
Specifically, the company will manufacture the automotive technology lines at its Mexican plant in Querétaro and deliver them, turnkey, and equipped with its own engineering and software, unique in the sector in the world, which allow the system to be checked from driving cars to industrial manufacturing rates.
Without counting on this new contract, the automotive division of Carbures adds 13.3 million euros in contracts of this pioneering technology of automotive in the first quarter of the year, which is about 33% of the total billing in this line of activity of 2017.
Carbures starts with the manufacture of the seven test lines of the electronic address of cars in its plant in Mexico, which has 1,700 square meters of production area. The delivery time of the testing lines is between seven and eight months and in the manufacturing process about 70 workers will work.
In this way, the company maintains the growth path both in the production and manufacture of parts and structures in composite materials, and in the sale of production lines with its own technology (collaborative robotics and artificial intelligence). In the next few years it is expected that all vehicles have electric power steering, which replaces the hydraulic.
With this new contract, Carbures is positioned as the second company in the world in automotive electronic address testing lines, since it works on this industrial technology since it was first used in the sector and is a reference for Tier1 companies or final manufacturers. in the main production poles of the sector in the world: China, the United States, Mexico and Europe.
“The behavior of our automotive line continues to improve and will accompany the enormous journey that has both the transformation of the metal sector to composites, as well as the technological evolutions that allow manufactures at a higher speed, as our lines of testing of electronic addresses “, has highlighted the president of Carbures, Rafael Contreras.
Last year, the automotive line of business manufactured 74 lines of testing and assembly and 543,643 pieces, in its plants in El Burgo de Osma (Spain), Manresa (Spain) in Tichy (Poland), Querétaro (Mexico) and Suzhou ( China) reference automotive poles in the world.