Knowledge transfer relaunches an entrepreneurial project
The company La Farga Lacambra, whose corporate purpose is the production and sale of semi-finished copper products, has been colaborating continuously since 1996 with the the Process and Material Design and Optimisation Centre (DIOPMA) of the UB. This cooperative work between university and enterprise, which received the Antoni Caparrós Prize in the last Awards of the UB Board of Trustees and the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation, has led to the development of new cooper alloys to apply on railway electrification, innovating then its production process. DIOPMAʼs technology and knowledge transfer has contributed to the companyʼs success. The company was able to overcome its suspension of payments situation, and became one of the best firms of the sector.
The company La Farga Lacambra, whose corporate purpose is the production and sale of semi-finished copper products, has been colaborating continuously since 1996 with the the Process and Material Design and Optimisation Centre (DIOPMA) of the UB. This cooperative work between university and enterprise, which received the Antoni Caparrós Prize in the last Awards of the UB Board of Trustees and the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation, has led to the development of new cooper alloys to apply on railway electrification, innovating then its production process. DIOPMAʼs technology and knowledge transfer has contributed to the companyʼs success. The company was able to overcome its suspension of payments situation, and became one of the best firms of the sector.
An example of the positive evolution of the company over the last few years is that in 2008 it had a total turnover of 670 million euros and, in 2011 it was of 1,082 million euros. It has also created more than fifty job positions. Moreover, in 2009 La Farga Lacambra received the Environment Prize of the Government of Catalonia for the technologies that it developed together with DIOPMA.