Our founder José Alcántara Martí began to work in the manufacture of dies for cutting and drawing in a small workshop located in the town of Meliana. Our first clients were Manufacturas Fonos and Talleres Pedro Barberá.

On 6 November 1986 Matrices Alcántara was founded in the town of Museros. The first industrial unit was dedicated to the construction of dies and the stamping of metal parts.

The company expanded for the first time. The warehouse that currently occupies our stamping area was built. We also acquired our first 250-tonne BELT eccentric press. This press was used for the production of aftermarket parts for the automotive sector.

Matrices Alcántara won the contract for developing the first original equipment (OE) project for the Nissan Pathfinder project. We acquired our first 315-tonne ESNA double-post press. During this year, the company underwent its second expansion in order to increase the stamping area.

We implemented Lean Manufacturing in our production system with the support of the AVIA GOAL project.

We acquired a 300 tonne LOIRE hydraulic press to produce deep drawing parts for the automotive sector. This same year the third expansion of the company took place, which is currently given over to welding and 3D laser work. We started working for the European market, mainly with Poland, Germany and England.

We incorporated the first 3D Laser cutting machine to meet the demand of the automotive and aerospace sectors.

We expanded our premises by 1,000 m2 dedicated to the production of components for electric vehicles.

We carried out a completely customised project, installing an electricity generation plant, through a generation plant, through a photovoltaic installation for self-consumption of 205.74 kWp.

This installation on the roof of our warehouse, represents annually:

• 308,610 kWh of energy produced.
• 5,553 tonnes of CO2 emissions NOT emitted. The equivalent of 8,288 trees.