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The Official Spanish Chamber of Commerce in Belgium and
Luxembourg celebrated last Tuesday, 15 March, the award ceremony of the Company of the Year 2015
Award,
granted during its third edition, in recognition of its position in its
activity sector and its track in Belgium and Luxembourg, to the business
group:
Orona is a corporate group with its
headquarters at Hernani (Guipúzcoa). The group, that has more than 50 years
of experience, consists of more than 30 companies in Belgium, Brazil,
Spain, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, Norway, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal
and the United Kingdom and employs about 4500 persons.
The activities of Orona focus on the
design, production, installation, maintenance and modernization of mobility
solutions (such as elevators, escalators, ramps and moving walkways). All
that from an integral service perspective and for all sectors of
application, from residential to commercial, public health, heritage
buildings and heavy loads.
The event took place at the Hotel
Sofitel Brussels Europe and was attended by, among others, senior managers
of Spanish and international companies, members of the Spanish diplomatic
corps, representatives of the European institutions and the General
Director of Environment, Daniel Calleja Crespo.
The President of the
Official Spanish Chamber of Commerce in Belgium and Luxembourg, Juan Rodríguez-Villa Matons,
welcomed the attendees and highlighted that “The Orona group’s key
to success is the fact that they conduct their own research, which
gives them technological independence, combined with a commercial spirit,
and the ambition of a human team with determination that spares no effort
to become one of the leading companies of the industry at international
level”.
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The
Director-General for the Environment, Daniel Calleja Crespo, awarded
the prize to the International Orona Corporate Board. The
Director-General outlined that “ORONA is the world's first company in the
lift sector to receive the ISO 14006 Eco-Design certification”
“Nowadays firms are successful if they follow
a sustainable business model”. He said that
this model is the key to growth because “it is a way to be conscious
with the environment, ensuring the business efficiency and the client
satisfaction”.
Moreover, he
compared Orona with the Hidden Champions because of their “success through a
discreet and professional work and service to society”.
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Aitor
Mendia, Corporate Board of Orona International, commented the following
after having received the award: “at
Orona we are very proud to get this award because Belgium (and
Luxembourg as well), means a lot to us. Orona in Belgium is actually
a Belgian company, managed with the effort and collaboration of our
Belgian human capital, aimed to providing mobility solutions that help to
improve the quality of life of the Belgians. Orona has a major presence
in this country, both in volume facilities, unique solutions and
maintenance contracts. It gets more and more difficult to understand
Orona without Belgium and we also aim to make it difficult to understand Belgium
without Orona”.
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After the ceremony of the Company of the Year
Award 2015, assistants could enjoy a dinner with wonderful Spanish wines
offered by the member company La Buena Vida.
Orona in Belgium and Luxembourg
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The well-known Basque company came to Belgium in 1996 through a
distribution network. Orona then acquired in 2010 and 2011 respectively,
CoopmanLiften y Ascelec Ascenseurs. In 2015, the company has implemented
a brand unification process that offers services and innovative solutions
all over the country. 250 people are currently part of the international
project Orona in Belgium and Luxembourg, where they carried out important
works such as the Metro of Brussels. Belgium is now one of the countries
where Orona combines a large number of service contracts with new
installations contracts.
Orona's figures
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Business Group
formed by more than 30 than in 11 countries.
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1 out every 10 new lifts in Europe is
from Orona.
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More than 100
countries have Orona products installed.
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250.000
lifts worldwide with
Orona technology.
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Number 1 in
Europe in terms of capacity for producing complete lifts.
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Two production
plants in Europe.
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4.500
professionals with
strong commitment to service.
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The company
worldwide lifting certified with Ecodesign - ISO 14006.
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2014
consolidated sales: 578 million euros.
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2014
investment: 38 million euros.
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2014
consolidated profit: 77 million euros.
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