The product’s specific requirements, the clients’ precise demands and an atmosphere of ever greater competition are the factors which put Fuchosa’s R+D+i activities in the forefront of our competitiveness and our development. It therefore occupies a priviledged position in our company’s Strategic Plant and enjoys annual levels of investment/spending of between 5 and 7% of turnover.

The main lines of development in the 2005-2009 Strategic Plan for R+D are as follows:

• Research into new materials and development of tose currently used
• Processes and technology in metallurgic transformation
• Automation of “manual” production processes
• Waste management
• Applied electronics
• New products in collaboration with our clients