The company celebrates its 75th anniversary highlighting its vocation for research and product customisation as the backbone and differentiators of its activity throughout its history.
On 5th May 22, Grupo Correa celebrated its 75th anniversary with a glittering event in which it highlighted the potential of its human resources as the company´s main asset throughout its history. With its vocation for research and product customisation as the backbone and differentiators of its activity, the company will boost its R&D&I capacity to continue its permanent opening to new markets and will develop a strategic plan whose investments will allow it to build the factory of the future in Burgos, increase the capacity and provide more productive means to its group companies.
The event was celebrated in Burgos, Spain and attended by over 200 people. President José Nicolás-Correa; CEO, Carmen Pinto; Daniel de la Rosa, Mayor of Burgos, and Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, President of the Junta de Castilla y León graced the event with their august presence along with customers, dealers and other dignitaries.
In his address on the occasion, José Nicolás-Correa, President of Nicolás Correa, recalled the key milestones of the company right from the inception. He underlined the fact that “companies grow and consolidate by taking advantage of the opportunities available and surmounting the difficulties that come in the way, and that both these are necessary”. He unfolded the growth story that began in Eibar and moved to Burgos in the 1960s. “Since then, the company has been investing, exporting, creating stable employment, and creating wealth incessantly,” he added.
José Nicolás-Correa also highlighted the importance of having developed an Industrial Group and underlined the current investment plan in which the company is engrossed as key to “guaranteeing its future and allowing it to go deeper into the new era of technology and digital communication”.
The chairman also alluded to the company´s presence on the Stock Exchange, on the continuous market, where Nicolás Correa remains today as “the only company in the Spanish machine tool sector”. The presence on the stock exchange brought “visibility and transparency”, a permanent guide to the company´s management style, as the chairman pointed out.
José Nicolás-Correa thanked customers, shareholders and employees for their trust throughout the company´s journey and concluded that “experience is an asset, but it cannot be an obstacle”, in reference to the fact that Nicolás Correa is and has always been “a company that breaks the mould”.
Carmen Pinto, CEO of Nicolás Correa, thanked all the employees and collaborators, who have been part of the company, for their work and generosity, as “a company like this one thrives on knowledge”.
Mr. Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, President of the Junta de Castilla y León, congratulated Nicolás Correa on its 75th anniversary, highlighting the company as “the industrial spearhead of Castilla y León and of Burgos, one of the cities with the most industrial weight in Spain”, and as “an example of public-private collaboration”.
Mr. Daniel de la Rosa, Mayor of Burgos, said that to define the history of Nicolás Correa is to define the history of Burgos as an industrial capital, leading the metal sector in Castilla y León. Along these lines, he congratulated the company on its trajectory, as a company that has diversified and has set the pace towards sustainable development and the generation of wealth, quality of life and employment in Burgos.
On the occasion of Nicolás Correa´s 75th anniversary, an Open House was held on 10th May, attended by more than 250 customers and partners from 20 countries.
At the event, the latest product innovations were presented, such as the new boring system, the pallet changer and the latest advances in Industry 4.0. In addition, attendees had the opportunity to visit Nicolás Correa´s facilities where several machining demonstrations were carried out.
Mr.Parag Alekar, CEO, India Branch was also present on this occasion. He thanked all Indian customers who could make it to Burgos and participate in this historic event – the 75th Anniversary of Nicolás Correa.
