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Opening photo: A bird’s eye view of the Industrias TITAN plant of El Prat de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain.
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Industrias TITAN: Technological Research Behind 100 Years of History From an interview with José Manuel Azpeitia Powder Coating Division General Director of Industrias TITAN SA
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ndustrias TITAN SA (ref. Opening photo) was established in 1917 by Don Joaquin Folch i Girona and it is currently led by the fourth generation of the family. TITAN is now one of the longestlived industrial companies of Spain. In latest October it turned 100 years of history and on 14 April 2018 will celebrate its anniversary in Barcelona. In this century of history, this firm has never ceased to evolve and be highly innovative, initially in the field of
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decorative and building paints and then also in the industrial coating sector. Here, it has focussed on low environmental impact products with high solid, low VOC content liquid paints and, since 2004, with powder coatings, too. These paved the way for the conquest of a new, growing market. “TITAN has always been a technological market leader, but the crisis of the last ten years has hit one of our core businesses, the building one,” says José Manuel Azpeitia, the