![]() Alende Marble Company Ltd. was born as 1950.Initially the focus was on jobs in the cemetery marble tombstones and mausoleums, as well as minor alterations to private kitchen and stair treads. At that time the staff consisted of 6-8 employees and were mostly manual work. One of the most common was the realization of stairs consisting of artificial material mixing pieces of marble, cement and sand, which is polished when dry with the only existing machine, a grinder.The material used was exclusively white or gray marble Macael, since in those days there granite comercializábamos. Later they begin to public works, one of the first works of this phase is the expansion of the College de La Salle, where marbles are supplied to the dining room of students and other areas. Work begins with granite, favored by the introduction of large mills in the industrial area of Porriño benefiting from state aid to the sector. The installations went from As Rhodes (1950) to Picaños (1968), the template and was around 12 people and the number of machines was also increasing: cutters, polishers, automatic and manual finishing tools. This time is becoming essential to use vehicles to transport material.Everything is quick, and is experiencing a huge revolution.There are successive enlargements of the facilities of 300 m2 to 600 m2 is passed and thereafter reached the 1,200 m2 distributed warehouse, cutting areas, finishing areas, etc. In 2000 the company has about 40 employees and going through a period of construction, both private and public, of the highest in the history of the company.The company began to specialize in the performance of ventilated facades, building an innovative way profiling based on stainless steel anchor on which the stone.The innovation of this system, especially in our region, creating an airy chamber between the stone and brick, eliminating one of the serious problems in construction: moisture.The arrival of this innovation requires the company to adapt to new uses, new machines for grooving granite pieces in songs and the consequent formation of especializándolos employees in the placement of ventilated facades. Again we need to expand facilities and in February 2006 Marbles Alende moved its facilities to the current address is changed Picaños work center to a new ship in the Costa Vella and Polygon conditioned and distributed to meet the growing needs of the company. The staff consists of 47 employees, working with 11 machines and as many handsets.This starts a process of expanding and improving our infrastructure and services that also goes through the implementation of an Integrated Quality Management and Environment. This management process begins in September 2005. |