Supporting entrepreneurship and innovation where your business is based

Institut Català de Finances (ICF – Catalan Finance Institute) is the public financial institution owned by the Generalitat de Catalunya. The Generalitat is the institutional system by which Catalonia (the region where we are based) is self-governed as an autonomous community of Spain. ICF’s mission is to improve access to funding for enterprises in Catalonia in […]

Helping customers meet their sustainability goals

Our CEO Narcís Puigdemont and the General Manager of an important partner of ours, Hoffmann Group Iberia, were recently featured in an article that gained attention from various news outlets in Spain, including our local newspaper, Diari de Girona. It was a long piece so we spliced it into three bite-sized chunks before adding a […]

Partnering with FANUC to deliver efficiency and value for Tecma customers

We were delighted to have the chance to participate in the annual Advanced Factories congress in Barcelona this week. Since 2017, this event has offered a broad range of companies the opportunity to learn more about the technologies and strategies covered by the umbrella term Industry 4.0 – IoT, AI machine learning, big data analytics, […]

AI – What does it mean for jobs in manufacturing?

Both our CEO Narcís Puigdemont and the General Manager of an important partner of ours, Hoffmann Group Iberia, were recently interviewed an article picked up by a number of news outlets in Spain, including our local city newspaper, Diari de Girona. The article was rather long, so we’ve decided to break it into three bite-sized […]

Operational efficiency and the perception of jobs in manufacturing

People who don’t work in manufacturing often have little idea of the scale and complexity of the processes involved in the creation of the products which they use every day. It could be a sliding door keeping your home warm and dry while offering easy access to the garden or balcony. It could be a […]

Staying connected to the manufacturing talent pipeline

Tecma produces top-quality aluminium components at its facility just outside the Catalan town of Banyoles and ships products worldwide to demanding customers across a broad range of sectors including renewable energy, transportation, electronics, medical devices and built environment. Able to produce even the most complex components and ready to manage the entire process from suggested […]

Why Tecma celebrates International Women’s Day

Tecma has evolved rapidly to be the go-to one-stop-shop provider of top-quality aluminium components for a growing roster of demanding clients worldwide. Quite a journey for a company founded as recently as 2006! The constant innovation, investment and improvement involved has been driven in large part by the women of Tecma, who account for 53% […]

Building the team which is driving Tecma’s one-stop-shop.

The whole Tecma headquarters team recently spent a full day enjoying team-building activities together. Production teams from the factory floor worked hand-in-hand with office-based colleagues from the design, leadership, finance, HR and commercial teams. The activities were Viking-themed. A strange choice for a company based just to the north of Barcelona? Maybe not! The Vikings […]