10 Plants at the service of packaging innovation
One project, 10 plants at your service to find the optimum solution
DS Smith Tecnicarton has 10 plants in France, Spain, Portugal and Morocco. This means that the company can provide a global and homogeneous service in the main industrial centres of the Iberian Peninsula, Europe and North Africa.
The expansion that DS Smith Tecnicarton has undergone since its founding in 1989 allows DS Smith Tecnicarton to respond to the needs of any customer regardless of location. All of them are supported by the central departments, located in Almussafes. This plant houses the company's authentic Alma Mater R&D&I centre, made up of engineers and industrial designers who support the entire organisation.
Likewise, the areas of quality management, finance or human resources are located at the plant, although each of the other plants has autonomy to "personalize" decisions.
It is about combining local expertise with a global solution. And this territorial spread is DS Smith Tecnicarton's great competitive advantage.
The project managers in each area know the idiosyncrasy of each location, the needs, not just the technical aspects of a project, so they can fully understand the client. Once the need has been detected, the entire organization is placed at the client's disposal to offer the best solution. This is the great advantage of having 10 plants at the service of each client and each project and with homogeneous working systems.
The 10 plants share the same work philosophy and quality management. Thus, a project developed for PSA in Morocco through the Tangier plant has the full support of the group, just as if the project comes from the Besançon plant in France.
Where are our plants?:
The evolution of Tecnicarton's plants reflects the company's own evolution, growth and expansion.
The first plant and from where the company was born was in the industrial estate of the Valencian town of Riba Roja del Turia. He settled there in 1989. Several years later, in 1996, to serve firms that required greater proximity, a plant was acquired in Madrid. The following year the plants in Barcelona and Bilbao arrived. And a little later, in the year 2000, the Vigo plant. With this map, practically the entire Spanish map, with national coverage, was already covered.
The incessant demand for innovative and personalised packaging for the industrial sector, Tecnicarton's vocation for service and the quality of its developments made it possible to open new plants and thus complete the national map. In 2005, the plant was opened in Seville and in 2006 Almussafes, establishing it as the new headquarters of the company. This change in the plant's location was a strategic decision. Almussafes is the epicentre of the Valencian automobile industry and Tecnicarton has numerous clients in this sector. Its developments for this industry have received numerous awards and the values of cost optimization and continuous improvement have allowed Tecnicarton to respond to the technical requirements of this sector.
The company's international expansion has come more recently. In 2011, a plant will be incorporated in Besançon, France; and in 2013, the Tangier plant will be opened to cover the growing industry in the free trade zone that has been established in Morocco, under the aegis of PSA factories.