PRECISION METALFORMING
Lasercor has used TRUMPF machines to cut, bend, engrave and weld parts of all sizes for around 8,000 customers.
All images in this article are supplied by the TRUMPF Group.
SHINING A LIGHT
Spanish sheet metal subcontractor, Lasercor, laser-cut stainless-steel louvres on the façade of Real Madrid’ s iconic Bernabéu Stadium.
“ Since setting up in 2000, Lasercor has been on a growth trajectory and now has 23 TRUMPF metalworking machines on its 16,000-square-metre production site.”
Real Madrid is one of the world’ s greatest soccer teams and a visit to Santiago Bernabéu Stadium is a dream come true for many fans. The spectacular facade of the revamped Bernabéu in Madrid, Spain, contains thousands of stainless-steel louvres, over half of which were precision fabricated by Lasercor using a TRUMPF TruLaser 5030 fiber laser cutting system.
What made the task even more challenging is that every louvre is different. The light displays on the new stadium shell are extraordinary as is the story of how Spanish subcontractor, Lasercor, got to where it is today …….
Back to the beginning
Thirty years ago, Lasercor didn’ t even exist, not even as an idea. The family of company founder, Julián Jiménez Candano, earned its living in a completely unrelated sector: the food trade.
“ I started working when I was 15 or 16 years old, selling chicken in our store,” said
Lasercor’ s founder, Julián Jiménez Candano( centre), has passed the reins to his sons Julián Jiménez Barroso( left) and Miguel Angel Jiménez but he continues to offer hands-on support.
Julián Jiménez Barroso, the current CEO and son of the founder. Lasercor’ s roots lay in a combination of hard work, a willingness to embrace risk and new ideas, and a good dose of luck.
Other members of the Jiménez family, who worked in hospitality, started chatting to a manufacturer of slot machines. At the time, this was a relatively new business field in the Madrid region, so it was tricky to get hold of suitable spare parts for the machines.
Julián Jiménez Candano had an affinity for this technology, and his other family business ventures had familiarised him with how such machines were built as well as their failures and malfunctions. One day, the manufacturer asked him to take apart one of the gaming machines to pinpoint its electromechanical defects. This gave him some extra work on the side, at least until a supplier suddenly
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