automotive catalogue - AFM

SPANISH MACHINE TOOLS
dependability, reliability and service
Spain is the third largest manufacturer and exporter of machine
tools in the European Union. This is the best demonstration
of the extremely high level of trust our customers place in
Spanish Machine Tools. A trust that has succeeded in Spanish
machine tools playing a very important role in the most relevant
industrial sectors of the economy such as automotive,
aeronautics and aerospace, energy generation, railways,
capital goods, dies and moulds or electrical appliances,
amongst others, with 60% of production destined for
international markets.
In addition to a lengthy experience in design and manufacturing,
Spanish machine tools offer a series of big competitive
advantages amongst which the following can be highlighted:
great flexibility for being able to adapt products to each
customer's, sector's and application's specific needs, a better
relationship between productivity and return on investments,
a wide and complete range of more than 2,000 models and
a decisive commitment to technological innovation, dedicating an average of 6% of the sector's
turnover to R&D&I.
combining all the sector's potential
Founded in 1946, AFM, the Machine Tool Manufacturers' Association of Spain represents almost a hundred
companies that account for 94% of the sector's total production in Spain. AFM's work centres on encouraging
competitiveness, defending its members' interests and fostering growth in the sector. Through a very wide
range of services, it helps to reinforce the international deployment of its members and further develop their
ongoing commitment to technological innovation, from its head offices in the San Sebastian Technology Park
and since its setting up in Tianjin (China).
In 1962, it became a member of CECIMO, the European Association of the Machine Tool Industries, holding
one of the permanent vice chairs and the Presidency in its turn.
AFM is also the co-organiser, together with Bilbao Exhibition Centre, of the BIEMH, the Spanish Machine
Tool Biennial, the sector's fourth largest trade fair in the world and the third in Europe.