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Ansicht der Montagehalle für Strangpressen View of the assembly shop for extrusion presses
GiA Clecim Press – Vom Werkzeugbauer
zum Anbieter kompletter Strangpressanlagen
B. Rieth, Meerbusch
Erfolgsgeschichten können
manchmal einen schnellen Verlauf
nehmen, vorausgesetzt ein
Unternehmen kommt zur rechten
Zeit mit dem richtigen Produkt
auf den Markt und passt dieses
dann zielgerichtet den weiteren
Veränderungen an. Im Falle des
spanischen Unternehmens GiA
dauerte es knappe zehn Jahre, bis
aus dem einstigen kleinen Hersteller
von Strangpresswerkzeugen
ein viel beachteter Anbieter von
Komplettanlagen für die weltweite
Strangpressindustrie wurde.
Anfang der 1980er Jahre, als GiA im
spanischen Albacete mit der Herstellung
von Strangpresswerkzeugen
begann, boomte die spanische Bauindustrie
und bot damit enorme Marktchancen
für Fenster- und Bauprofile
aus Aluminium. Gute Startbedingungen,
die das junge Unternehmen
ermutigten, seine Ingenieurleistung
auch über den Werkzeugbau hinaus
auf Anwendungen innerhalb eines
Strangpresswerkes auszuweiten. Damit
wurde GiA zum Anlagenbauer, der
dem damals wachsenden spanischen
Markt Handling- und Bearbeitungseinrichtungen
für stranggepresste
GiA Clecim Press – from die-maker to
complete extrusion plants supplier
B. Rieth, Meerbusch
Success stories can often develop
quite quickly provided that a company
comes to the market at the
right time with the right products
and then adapts them to suit later
changes as they occur. In the case
of the Spanish company GiA it was
barely ten years before the once
small manufacturer of extrusion
dies has become a highly regarded
supplier of complete plants for the
extrusion industry worldwide.
At the beginning of the 1980s, when
GiA in Albacete, Spain, began producing
extrusion dies, there was a boom
in Spain’s building industry which
provided huge market opportunities
for aluminium window and structural
sections. Good starting conditions,
which encouraged the young
company to extend its engineering
performance besides die manufacturing
to other applications in extrusion
plants. So GiA became an equipment
manufacturer which offered to the
then growing Spanish market handling
and processing equipment for
extruded sections. A substantial gap
was filled when, towards the end of
the 1980s, the technical staff at GiA
ventured to attempt the centrepiece
of the plants: the first extrusion press
designed by the company itself and
made by it in 1990 was a 14 MN press
of conventional, back-loading configuration
which began operating as part
of a complete plant supplied by GiA to
a Spanish extruder in Albacete.
Following the policy to become a
supplier of turnkey projects in the extrusion
business, GiA developed and
introduced to the market the short
stroke back loading design of 18 to 22
MN. Due to the factory location the
main approached market at the time
was Spain where the equipment had
a huge demand and customer acceptance.
At the end of the 1990s the leap
to trading overseas took place. After
orders from the Dominican Republic,
others followed from Mexico and the
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Photos: GiA Clecim