| History |
Iberica the Aparellajes was founded in 1969 with the purpose of manufacturing and marketing medium voltage switchgears for energy distribution Networks.The company at the beginning was dedicated to the manufacture of disconnectors. Later on, will came the development of new product lines, as a result of constant R&D developed in the company, together with the acquisition of several technologies, developing air break switches, fuses and other products. This quickly led to business growth and the need to expand manufacturing capabilities and facilities, so the company moved to new facilities at Masamagrell in 1975. Over the next eight years the company's business is mainly focused on the consolidation of the air type switchgear business in Spain, making agreements of their disconnectors, switches and insulators in the main electricity distribution companies and creating a company of the same shareholder group, POINSA dedicated to the manufacture of electrical porcelain insulators, the main supplier of porcelain insulators for Iberica de Aparellajes. Since the early '80s to the present time, and through several stages, as much developing new products and proprietary technologies, as switches "Exarc" in SF6, or rotary disconnectors up to 72.5 KV, the distribution of new products as polymeric insulators and lightning arresters for new markets to 400KV substations and power transmission, the establishment of another company of the same shareholder group, HORMILEC, which manufactures and sells prefabricated transformer stations, as the constant opening of new international markets, it is leading after several growings of the facilities and resources, to the present situation with facilities of 10,000 sqm. |