nº 27 march 2013 Interview with Cecilio Lejarreta. Director of ULMA Packaging Mónica Casado, ULMA Architectural Solutions expatriate in Brazil The Central Departments of ULMA Group; COLLABORATION AND SERVICE FOR BUSINESSES 2 summary NEWS AND CURRENT THEMES < Informative talks at ULMA Piping. NEWS AND CURRENT THEMES < ULMA Construcción attends the German trade fair BAUMA with a different image. REPORT < Mónica Casado, ULMA Architectural Solutions expatriate in Brazil. TEAM OF COLLABORATORS: Nora Altube, Joseba Alberdi, Ana Da Costa, Nerea Zallo, Irene Moreno, Edurne Unzueta, Alaitz Osa and Javier Rivera. Edition: Grupo ULMA S. Coop. Garagaltza auzoa 51-22 p.k. 20560 OÑATI Tel.: 943 25 03 00 Fax: 943 78 09 17 e-mail: [email protected] Design and layout: Area Brand, Communication, RSE y TIC. Published: Gertu S. L. Ecological paper summary 3 March 2013 4 news and current themes ULMA Agrícola still going strong in Central America. ULMA Packaging collaborates with the Basque Culinary Centre. NEWS AND CURRENT THEMES < Informative talks at ULMA Piping. BBK Residence in Bilbao with 6,000 m2 of ULMA ventilated facade. More than 1,000 monthly visits to Begira’s site. > NEWS AND CURRENT THEMES ULMA specializes storage range through the 16 face to face launch of new Mitsubishi stackers. Cecilio Lejarreta. Director of ULMA Packaging. 17 report The Central Departments of ULMA Group; Collaboration and Service for Businesses. 18 report Mónica Casado, ULMA Architectural Solutions expatriate in Brazil. 20 healthy news The Healthy Cooperative. 22 agenda and suggestions > NEWS AND CURRENT THEMES ULMA Handling Systems signs a partnership agreement with Autostore. 4 news and current themes ULMA CONSTRUCCIÓN ULMA Construcción on Chicago’s Skyline The modern designed glass tower will provide magnificent views over Lakeshore East Park, the Chicago River and Lake Michigan. This residential building, Coast at Lakeshore East, standing at 129.5 m and ULMA HANDLING SYSTEMS housing more than 45 floors, is situated in a strategic location in Chicago. ULMA-DAIFUKU: The DNA of an established As well as the 499 apartments, more than 1,700 m2 is used for shopping and partnership leisure activities with: car parks, business Successful alliance and retention of the projects, with the objective that centres, a swimming pool, gym, spa and a partnership lies in the sum of several ULMA would be 100% autonomous other facilities. components: work, eagerness, trust, in all of its actions.” The sheer height and location of the collaboration, innovation, openness, In 1989, following the signing of building meant that during construction a quality of service…etc. The key is the partnership, ULMA developed its cover protection over the entire perimeter in determining the dosage of each first project installing a stacker crane was needed along with Perimeter Protection component and the combinations into one of its premises, one which is HWS. The screens protected the workers that can be made between them. still there and fully functional today. from the possibility of falling, as well as Undoubtedly the successful result of Back in the day, logistics automation creating work space and sheltering them the ULMA-DAIFUKU equation will was rare and barely used and it was from bad weather. be reflected this year in 2013 with only towards the end of the 80’s The distinct set up of the panels both with the 25th anniversary celebration of that organizations began rearranging and without staging, served as platforms, the partnership: 25 years of history their space logistics, allowing the idea transfer of material and worker access to marked by a large dosage of trust and to be contemplated as a strategic the different levels. The panels fix together innovation. asset within the business policies of from floor to floor with hydraulic system and ULMA first began commercializing companies. without the need of having to use a crane. automated warehouses back in 2008 As time went on, the business The walls and columns have been in collaboration with DAIFUKU, a project was securing its position and made from MEGAFORM and MEGALITE. Japanese company and world leader ULMA Handling Systems rose to take The modular formworks of the panels are in this sector. a more important role in the offering manufactured using imperial dimensions Since the beginning, collaboration of logistic teams and systems in Spain. which makes them more versatile in fitting between both companies has It was in the 90’s that ULMA began to various geometrics. The slabs were built on involved an exchange of knowledge, internationalize and develop its first huge tables and supported on columns. experience, teams and systems premises in Brazil, France and Italy. The execution of this type of Project including that of the range of Josetxo de Frutos, General shows success in the partnership between automation products for Automatic Director of ULMA Handling Systems ULMA and Aluma Systems. Manufacture and Distribution (AM/ stated that “the partnership continues AD). based upon roots of trust, respect José María Loiti, founder of ULMA and openness, the same roots that Handling Systems, remembers that we set right at the beginning of this before the collaboration “previous partnership.” What’s more, he adds meetings were necessary to determine “Our relationship remains long term the needs of both companies and to commitment whereby each party lay down the foundations of what brings a distinctive value to offer to all would later become this excellent of our customers and shareholders.” partnership.” She added that “Both Throughout these past 25 years, companies signed an agreement: every corporate result demonstrates DAIFUKU would supply the the strengthening of the partnership maintenance systems to ULMA and that today continues to share in return, ULMA would be in charge resources, knowledge, new challenges of their study, design, development and ideas. and the integral maintenance of news and current themes 5 ULMA CONVEYOR COMPONENTS POSCO project for the OCP by ULMA Conveyor Components The Korean company POSCO and to triple its processing capacity by Engineering has awarded ULMA Conveyor the year 2020. For this it has approved Components two contracts to supply a 115.000 Billion MAD (roughly 1 EUR rollers and idlers for phosphate processing Billion) investment plan. ULMA AGRÍCOLA for the OCP in Morocco. The project will The plan envisages the creation of take place in the Maroc Phosphore facility three new mines in Khouribga and a ULMA Agrícola still in Jorf Las Far. fourth in Gantour. One of the keys lies in going strong in The end customer, OCP, with whom the new pipeline linking Khouribga with ULMA Conveyor Components already the treatment plant in Jorf Las Far. Up to Central America has a contract for spare roller parts, is now the phosphate was shipped by rail. the main global producer of phosphate. This resource will reduce transport costs ULMA AGRÍCOLA COMPLETES TWO PROJECTS, The OCP has embarked on an ambitious from 8 USD/Tm to 1 USD/Tm. DONE AND DUSTED, IN CENTRAL AMERICA project to double its extraction capacity ULMA Agricola’s presence throughout the past few years in Central America is becoming ever more important. Thanks ULMA ARCHITECTURAL SOLUTIONS to these projects there is plenty of good New ULMA work being carried out across the market in Central America. ULMA Agrícola’s Architectural affiliate in Mexico is approaching projects and services with a sufficient amount Solutions YOUTUBE of success which fulfils the objective of channel betting its presence in said market. Mexico and Guatemala NEW CHANNEL CREATED TO KEEP ULMA’S One of the latest projects carried out CLIENTS INFORMED OF LATEST NEWS AND towards the end of 2012 saw ULMA PROJECTS present in the state of Chiapas, Mexico, working in a gothic multi-span structure of more than 7,000 m2 built and equipped with a double inflatable roof chamber, ULMA Architectural Solutions has process for mounting a ventilated recirculators and a thermal screen. As you just released its new YouTube channel facade, and the advantages and can see, the facility uses highly technical which can be accessed directly from specifications of a drainage channel facilities which also include automatic the company’s webpage. with a slope of 2.5%. There are also shades. The channel has 5 distribution videos available explaining why the The second project is situated lists: One corporate and another for company decided to change its name, in Guatemala, another country full of each of its lines: as well as some of the company’s potential where ULMA has carried out • Ventilated Facades greatest projects. great works. This facility again incorporates • Drainage Channels This new channel has been a gothic structure with a floor area of • Prefabricated Architecture created to keep ULMA’s clients up to 24,800 m2 which is divided into two • Facades date with the company’s latest news modules. Amongst the many videos that and projects in the hope of boosting Both facilities are built in prestigious can be found on this channel is the the brand’s digital identity. zones and have vents plotted around rehabilitation of a construction of Another aim of the channel is to and scaling the perimeter, the opening of 14,000 m2. improve the company’s national and which is protected by an antitrip mesh. We can also find the technical international web position. 6 news and current themes ULMA FORKLIFT TRUCKS ULMA specializes storage range through the launch of new Mitsubishi stackers ULMA Forklift Trucks secures and The AXIA series is characterized by provide all electrical components strengthens its policy to improve its maneuverability and by the high with unparalleled protection against through the introduction of a new safety level present in its models. This humidity and dust. family of electronic Mitsubishi is all thanks to its ergonomic tiller The models offer a safety in stackers.