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THE PRESIDENT OF THE JUNTA DE ANDALUCIA VISITS ALUCOAT AND SUPPORTS ITS INNOVATION AND GROWTH PROCESS.

The company, which has broken the production, turnover and results record this year, is immersed in an ambitious plan for digital transformation 4.0.

Linares, January 21st. The president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla, visited the Alucoat Conversion factory today in Linares, (Jaen). Belonging to Grupo Aliberico, to show his support for the innovation and growth plans, which has been promoting this industrial and technological company for years, specialized in coating aluminium coils between 20 and 500 microns thick for sectors such as food, pharmacy, conditioning and building.

During his visit, the president of Junta de Andalucia was accompanied by the major of Linares, Raul Caro-Accino and was received by the Director of Alucoat Conversion, Jose Manuel González Plaza and the counsellor of Grupo Aliberico , María González Armero.

Since it was privatized by SEPI in 2001 and acquired by Grupo Aliberico, Alucoat Conversion has invested heavily in innovation and technological transformation, which has allowed it to increase the number of customer and portfolio in critical sectors such as pharmaceuticals and sanitary.

This strategy has led the company to beat the production, turnover and results record in the just ended year.
Currently, Alucoat is immerse in an ambitious plan of digital transformation that will standardize its processes to the 4.0 digital standard. This will affect internally to the company and its relationship with customers and suppliers.

Alucoat maintains intact its commitment to Andalusia and the city of Linares, which is based on the determination to continue growing through investment in new facilities and machinery and the creation of new quality jobs.

Nowadays, the company has a workforce of 70 people, 94% of them with permanent contracts. Furthermore, even being an industrial company, half of the directives positions are held by women.
Alucoat is the unique producer of coated aluminium of in Europe up to 1.650 mm wide, which positions the company as the only one in its sector both nationally and in Europe. Currently, Alucoat exports 50% of its production to more than 46 countries.

Coated aluminium with conductive properties for lithium batteries

ALUCOAT, specialist in aluminium lacquering, in its determined commitment to Innovation and Development, has designed a foil with a coating specially developed by its R&D department that incorporated into lithium batteries with high energy capacity notably improves their conductive properties.

Its new product, whose purpose is to improve the useful life of batteries and electrical equipment, increases conductivity and reduce electric resistance, up to 15% compared with to the competition as well as 30% compared to bare aluminium, it also improves the adhesion of the metal to the electrode and the resistance to corrosion caused by the electrolyte itself. All this implies greater performance and useful life of batteries. It is therefore, a material developed to satisfy a new market, oriented especially to automotive sector but with a wide variety of applications for other type products such as semi-satellites, home automation, drones and electric scooters among others.

In turn, this novel product also collaborates with the Sustainable Development Goals (SGD), contributing to “Responsible consumption and production” (SGD 12), and “Climate action” (SGD 13).

ALUCOAT, new challenges, new developments and new goals.