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INNOVATION COMBINED WITH TRADITION
Over seven thousand furnaces distributed all over the world support our company's course. Already four generations of the Pujol family have passed since the company was funded 91 years ago, and the last two generations still coexist: Joaquín Pujol Martín, Managing and Technical Director, and his two sons, Joaquín Pujol Marí, Sales Department, and Jorge Pujol Marí, Production Department. |
Vista del interior de la fábrica. From its modern facilities located in Sant Feliu de Llobregat (Barcelona), Pujol Industrial Furnaces is specialized in four business areas: ceramics, metallurgy, sintering and glass. Today ceramics constitutes 45% of the total business volume and includes structural ceramics, bricks and refractories, as well as coloured ceramics and frits. That is the reality of a company that has very much changed since its foundation back in 1911. técnicacerámica: What was the origin of Pujol Industrial Furnaces?- J.P.: The founder was Joan Pujol Batet and we began to work with refractory masonry. In those days the basic pieces of the oven were coal and firewood combustion chambers and all the work focused on the refractory area. Our clients came mainly from the chemical and enamel industries located near Pueblo Nuevo de Barcelona, that was just starting to bloom at the beginning of the decade. How did the company change with the coming generation?- J.P.: Joan and Salvador, the two sons of the founder, started to work with rotary ovens and continuous enamel wind tunnels. It was the 40s and we were already going into a period of more control over the company developing our own solutions for the first time for the brick, tile and ceramics sectors. “Today, ceramics constitutes 45% of the total business volume”(NEXT PAGE) Page 2 >>> |
What was the next step?- J.P.: It was my father, Joaquín Pujol Martín, the one who put it together, when he decided to lead the company in the seventies and gave it its definite impulse. It was back then when the boom of the artistic ceramics indrustry of Manises and La Bisbal took place. There were only two fuel furnaces and we broke in with the direct flow gas furnace. The development of the new “high-temperature” rotary ovens began to be exploited for the fusion of frits and smalts, together with new tunnel furnaces for smalting on steel plate. At this point, over 800 furnaces from 5 to 40 m3 were constructed. Continuing technological evolution. What stood out in the 80s? |
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