Rodabell satisfaction questionnaires available to the public through its website

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In compliance with the corporate social responsibility policy of the company, Rodabell makes available to Internet users the satisfaction questionnaires so that any customer can value their products .

The aluminum manufacturing and supply company has a strong commitment to quality, environment and safety, based on the satisfaction of the requirements applicable to the product, the customer, society and the sector. In addition, Rodabell is keenly aware of the value of continued and planned improvement in his work and the increase of its efficiency, to the benefit of these areas, for which surveys and satisfaction questionnaires are fundamental.

This novelty is also an exercise in approaching the customer and supplier, as well as transparency, since it is a voluntary way of generating trust between all the parties, and that it reverses in a positive way both in the client and supplier, as in the company.

Rodabell will be present at the Metef 2017 in Verona

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Metef 2017 Verona, celebrates this year a new edition at the fairground VeronaFiere, from 21 to 24 June. An important international meeting point for all the operators of the aluminum industry and Rodabell will not miss.

In this international fair of aluminum, the latest innovations and innovations related to the sector will be presented in all its aspects and aims to meet and bring together professionals from all over the world, technical and scientific experts and exchange experiences and ideas, thus contributing to the Growth and evolution of the aluminum sector.

Rodabell goes to this meeting for the first time, showing the most innovative technologies and applications in the field of aluminum, considered one of the strategic materials for the industry of the future. In addition, according to the organization, this edition will optimize the supply of technologies and materials for the complex metal sector with the creation of an area dedicated to the rolling and strengthening of the casting molding area, which will be attended a large Group of producers of components cast in all metals.

Rodabell participates in a program of FP practices facilitating the labor insertion of young people

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Currently, until the end of the academic year, five students of vocational training courses taught at four Galician educational centers complete their training at the Rodabell facilities. This group of students from the institutes IES Marqués de Sargadelos, IES Perdouro, IES María Sarmiento and CIFP Polytechnic of Santiago are doing their internships during this course in several departments of the Rodabell group.

These practices in work centers are part of the academic program of the middle and upper levels of Vocational Training. A training that is indispensable for these students to complement their theoretical knowledge with a first approach to working life, both in the subject of their module and in the socio-labor organization of a company, issues that will continue to learn throughout Throughout their professional career.

Convinced that teaching is one of the best ways of conveying excellence, training is one of Rodabell’s key bets, so its involvement with students is paramount. Therefore in each student is assigned to a tutor who personally directs and supervises the student’s training practices in the company.

For the Group, the training and the business sector must be in constant communication and look for meeting points, so these practices of almost three months, allow the involvement of Rodabell in the training and training of future metal professionals.

Arconic sells its Italian plant to Slim Aluminum

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Arconic sells its Italian plant to Slim Aluminum


The current situation of the sector takes us to Italy, where the aluminum manufacturer Arconic announced in early April the sale of its rolling mill in Fusina to the Italian Slim Aluminum.

According to Arconic, the sale of the plant, located on the outskirts of Venice, is the result of an exhaustive business review process, which has led Arconic Global Rolled Products (GRP) to set aside commodity production And focus on the manufacture of high-margin aerospace and automotive products.

The buyer, Slim Aluminum, is a rolling mill based in Italy, owned by the funds managed by Quantum Capital Partners GmbH, an Munich-based investment company founded in 2008. It has a nominal capacity of 92,000 metric tons Aluminum foil, reels, sheets, circles, and blanks a year.

Both Arconic and Slim Aluminum are part of the network of customers with whom Rodabell works and collaborates closely in engineering projects.

Rodabell launches quarter with new projects

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Environmental Criteria for Rodabell Products and Services

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One of the premises of Rodabell when developing its strategies and processes of sale, design and manufacture, is to bet on sustainable and efficient models, which contribute to the optimization of resources, both material and environmental. In this sense, the environmental criteria that govern the processes of environmental impacts throughout the cycle of existence of products and services of Rodabell, attend to the different stages of the life of each article.

Regarding raw materials, Rodabell requires that these come from renewable processes and / or renewable resources managed in a sustainable manner, preferably if they serve an internal reuse, ie, responding to the circular economy model. A condition that consequently applies to its own manufacturing and distribution processes, where it is required that no substances toxic to health or the environment are added, as well as taking into account the reduction of environmental impacts and transport efficient.

In the same way, Rodabell generates reusable, easily reusable products, services of low energy consumption and / or that allows the use of renewable energies, so that it has a long useful life. But everything (or almost everything) comes to an end, and when this happens, the product user Rodabell finds a product that is recyclable or composed of mono-materials that facilitate its reuse, with pieces clearly identified for recycling.

Rodabell makes available to its clients the information and necessary advice on the correct environmental management that can generate their products and services, through its website www.rodabell.com and you can specify more here

Alcoa warns of the unsustainability of its activity because of the price of light

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The 103% increase in the price of the megawatt hour produced in the wholesale electricity market during the month of January 2017, compared to the same period of 2016, has impacted on the invoice of the industries. The multinational Alcoa has already urged to lower prices immediately, as it sees the competitiveness of its three Spanish plants unviable in the face of this rise in the electricity bill.

The factories of A Coruña, San Cibrao (Lugo) and Avilés (Asturias) consume approximately 2% of the national electricity production, which is why they are talking about a large amount. According to the chairman of the A Coruña plant committee, Juan Carlos López Corbacho, “the situation is critical,” since energy costs account for 30-40% of their production costs. He also stressed that “with these prices, the activity is not sustainable”, assuring that the continuous rise significantly affects the company, as it pays electricity at the market price.

A situation that also live other large energy-consuming industries such as metallurgical, timber, although they benefit from discounts on the invoice in exchange for providing the service interruptible, according to which they must be willing to reduce consumption when the Electrical system so requires to ensure electricity supply to the rest of the country. Incentives established through an annual auction system, periodicity now questioned by the association of energy-intensive companies (AEGE), which requests that these be distributed over a longer period to give greater stability to the sector, He would know in advance the proceeds from the interruptibility and could be planning the investments.

(Source: La Voz de Galicia)

Union of the aluminum industry by a sustainable sector

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Part of the Rodabell Group’s philosophy is forged in the care of the environment, the improvement in the quality of its products and the commitment to safety at work. A dogma that is reflected in the search for a generation of long-term value by all communities committed to the advancement of society in general.

That is why Rodabell applauds the joint initiative of the International Aluminum Institute (IAI), the global association of aluminum producers, and the Aluminum Stewardship Initiative (ASI), which formed in late 2016 A Memorandum of Understanding, by which they commit to collaborate and improve the performance of the industry, promote the sustainable use and recycling of their products.

This organization of companies of the sector and its auxiliaries, including Rodabell, support and are involved in this action to promote the production, supply and responsible administration of aluminum, internalizing, among other things, circular economy.

This five-year initiative joins these organizations to share measurement frameworks, reports and sector data on greenhouse gas emissions and water and energy use, waste and risk management, among other issues with the objective To improve efficiency for both organizations and their respective members through common approaches and pooling collective experiences and knowledge.

(Source: ComunicaRSE)

Rodabell Partners International Network Grows

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Among Rodabell’s missions is that of achieving international alliances for the agile and efficient resolution of the needs of its clients, and thus fulfill the objective of positioning itself as a reliable collaborator. This is why it is surrounded by partners who offer the company the advantage of offering a wide range of components and consumables demanded by aluminum foundries.

International partners with Rodabell include Permatech (USA) and Urja (India). The US company specializes in the manufacture of liquid metal treatment and transportation systems and is a valuable partner in turnkey integrated projects as it works in conjunction with Rodabell throughout the process, from the engineering to the sunset phase In operation of the installation.

As for Urja, it stands out for its manufacture of fiberglass fabrics for industrial applications, which offers Rodabell the possibility of providing the customer with the best technology through filtered meshes.

In addition, recently the Galician company has expanded the base of international collaborators with two large companies of the sector.

With the addition of SCI (Scottish Chemical Industries) – also from India – to its partner network, Rodabell has started to work on a new line of business in fluxes and special coatings in the aluminum industry. And, Storvik Norwegians provide advice and proposals for special alloy elements made of cast steel for use in aluminum foundries.