GHI will invest in improving its facilities after growing by 20% in 2018

Aluminium Today reported that Mr José Domingo Berasategui, General Manager o GHI, said “After a successful 2018 in which GHI has doubled its growth forecast, reaching almost 20% growth and surpassing EUR 30 million euros of turnover, this year the investments of GHI will be focused to the improvement of our facilities and processes with the goal of increasing our efficiency and productivity. To the aforementioned growth in last year’s turnover was added the reinforcement of the workforce with more than 25 new employees. The firm also expanded the resources allocated to innovation, which by 2019 will exceed EUR 1.5 million. Primarily, this amount will focus on digitisation and industry 4.0, areas for which GHI have created a specific department.”

Leader in Spain and international leader in its sector, the Biscayan company GHI Smart Furnaces has important portfolio projects for this year, in which GHI will also seek to consolidate its position through a strategy based on constant innovation, a trained and committed human team, technology 4.0 and collaboration with customers, suppliers and technology centres.

For this part, among the main technological milestones of GHI in 2018 include the supply of the "largest in the world" rotary tilting furnace with which the firm has beaten, for the second time, a world record. It was a project subsidised by the Basque Government in which the company has worked together with Befesa and Tecnalia. Result: the development of an equipment of 65 tons of capacity that exceeds by 30% its previous record and which is equipped with a multi-door system and 4.0 technology that makes it "more efficient and automatic". The furnace started in September and GHI already has a new order to supply another 65 tons rotary furnace this year for the same customer.

The firm is also in the process of patenting the 'On Stamp' rolling beam furnace for hot stamping, developed with one of the leading suppliers of automotive components worldwide. It is about, according to Berasategui, installations that are in constant evolution, so that each one of the eight furnaces supplied until now has notable improvements.

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