Record turnover for Spain's Soraluce

Soraluce, a milling machine and machining centre manufacturer from Bergara, Guipuzcoa, Basque Country, and integrated into the MCC Danobat Group, reports that an increase in its activity has extended to all markets and sectors, with a boom in large sized machines. The latter represent a production segment in which there is less competition from the emerging countries, as more expertise is required, notes the company. During 2006, Soraluce presented its new FX floor-type milling centre. The first machine sold was installed in Emusi, a sub-contractor of capital goods from Guipuzcoa and it has sold another four units of this model. Soraluce presently has an order backlog that will guarantee it a workload until June 2007. Amongst these is an order from the Lagun-based Artea Group - the largest order to date from Spanish customer. It includes two milling centres, FLC 5000 and FL 5000, and a milling-boring machine FR 8000, the first two being high speed machines. Additionally, it will deliver to CMZ, one of the main lathe manufacturers in Spain, a SP milling machine with 10,500 mm longitudinal traverse 1,400 mm vertical traverse 1,500 mm transversal traverse. Another order in the assembly phase is for a FL 4000 machine to Talleres de Guernica, a lathe accessory manufacturer. In the foreign market, Soraluce will deliver other major projects in coming months in Western Europe, China, the USA and South America.