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ULMA Group
Company typeCooperative
IndustryMultisectoral
Founded1961
FoundersPedro Ugarte, Isidro Mendiola, Ignacio Maiztegui, Julián Ayastuy, Esteban Lizarralde and Julián Lizarralde
HeadquartersOñati,
Spain
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Lander Diaz de Gereñu (President)
ProductsGreenhouses, rollers-pulleys-garlands and idlers, automated warehouses, prefabricated polymer concrete for construction, formwork and scaffolding for construction, packaging equipment and systems, flanges-fittings, Forklift Trucks, engineering services
Number of employees
5,500 (2019)
Websitewww.ulma.com

The ULMA Group is a business group made up of 9 cooperatives which operate in diverse sectors through its 9 strategic business units: ULMA Greenhouses, ULMA Architectural Solutions, ULMA Maintenance Services, ULMA Conveyor Components, ULMA Embedded Solutions, ULMA Handling Systems, ULMA Construction, ULMA Packaging and ULMA Advanced Forged Solutions.

The group currently has a presence in 81 countries. With 60 years in the market, the group is part of the Industrial Division of the Mondragon Corporation.[1][2][3]

History

XXXI International Fair of Barcelona,1963

The origins of the ULMA Group date back to the early sixties and the creation of two separate cooperatives. The first was created in 1961 by six young mechanics following several meetings with José María Arizmendiarrieta, the local priest in Mondragón (Gipuzkoa) and the driving force behind what is today known as Mondragon. They decided to set up a cooperative called ULMA S.C.I. to provide ancillary services to the chocolate industry and later on entered the construction sector. At the same time and in the same region, four workers from the Forjas de Zubillaga (Zubillaga Forge) company decided to acquire a locksmith and accessories workshop. Both companies grew and established close ties during the late seventies and eighties and finally created the actual group in 1987 with the addition of Oinakar, a third cooperative that sold forklift trucks. The group was first named Oñalan and it's been called ULMA Group since 1989. In 1993, as a result of the decision to have its own cooperative group, ULMA decided not to take part in the organisational restructuring proposed by the Mondragon Cooperative Corporation (MCC). In 2002, however, its members approved the group joining the Industrial Division of Mondragon, of which it still forms a part.[4][5]

In 2001, ULMA Packaging achieved the ISO 14,001 environmental certificate and in 2002 it also obtained the silver Q for Business Excellence.[6]

In 2003, ULMA Forklift Trucks obtained the Company Registration Certificate accredited by AENOR for its "Assembly and Marketing of new Forklift Trucks" activity, which evidences the conformity of its Quality System with the UNE-EN 9001:2000 standard.[7]

In 2005, ULMA Construcción received the Business Internationalization Award, a recognition granted by the Guipúzcoa Chamber of Commerce.[8]

In 2008, ULMA Agrícola obtained ISO-9001/2008 for the design, manufacture and assembly of structures for protected crops.

In 2014, ULMA Piping's Design and Calculation of flanges were certified by ISO and API.[9]

Current situation

In 2015, 4,396 people worked for the Group, which recorded a turnover of EUR 716.4 million, of which around 80% was accounted for by international sales. Although all the cooperatives share general policies and management strategies, each one produces, rents, manufactures or markets its own products. Since every cooperative has its own products, Ulma Group has all sort of projects in different countries, from Greenhouses in the Middle East desert (ULMA Agrícola) to Skyscrapers in New York (ULMA Construction) or drainage channels in different buildings and stadiums around the world.[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]

Social responsibility

Most of ULMA Group’s social responsibility is carried out through the ULMA Foundation. It was established in 2010 and supports projects with a social purpose which are financed with 10% of the group's profits.[23][24][25]

References

  1. ^ "Aniversario de la colocación de la primera piedra". El Diario Vasco. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  2. ^ "ULMA 50: 1961-2011". ULMA. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  3. ^ "50 años que nos unen" (PDF). ULMA. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  4. ^ "Proyecto Organizativo del Grupo ULMA". Grupo ULMA. 2006. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  5. ^ "Somos ULMA". Grupo ULMA. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  6. ^ "Miembros del cluster" (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 July 2016.
  7. ^ "La nueva línea de Cerramiento de Fachadas Ulma premiada en Construmat'11" (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 July 2016.
  8. ^ "La nueva línea de Cerramiento de Fachadas Ulma premiada en Construmat'11" (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 July 2016.
  9. ^ "Las fachadas de ulma contribuyen a la obtención del certificado leed para edificios sostenibles" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 25 June 2016. Retrieved 3 July 2016.
  10. ^ "ULMA Agrícola instala invernaderos en el desierto". Vulka. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  11. ^ "La española Ulma Architectural Solutions suministra canales de drenaje en el mayor estadio de Polonia". Instituto de Comercio Exterior de España. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  12. ^ "Energía para los peruanos". PetroPerú. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  13. ^ "ULMA Conveyor suministra los componentes para la ampliación del puerto Gangavaram de India". TU Lankide. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  14. ^ "El SAT on-line de Ulma Carretillas cumple 3 años". CDE Comunicación. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  15. ^ "ULMA muestra en Compamed un envase que permite la esterilización de productos médicos". ULMA Packaging. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  16. ^ "Las firmas textiles Brandili e Indutop apuestan por el sistema logístico diseñado por ULMA Handling Systems". SPRI. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  17. ^ "ULMA consigue la certificación KOMO". Alimarket. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  18. ^ "Sistemas prefabricados en hormigón polímero". Construmatic. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  19. ^ "Las fachadas de ulma contribuyen a la obtención del certificado leed para edificios sostenibles". Tecnalia. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  20. ^ "Asociados a Eraikune". Eraikune. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  21. ^ "Ulma Architectural Solutions, galardonada con el Premio NAN 2013 a los mejores materiales". TU Lankide. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  22. ^ "La nueva línea de Cerramiento de Fachadas Ulma premiada en Construmat'11". Construnario. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  23. ^ "El Grupo ULMA y su fundación". Compromiso RSE. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  24. ^ "Colaboraciones de la Fundación ULMA". Fundación ULMA. Archived from the original on 2010-10-13. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  25. ^ "Informe anual Mundukide 2009" (PDF). Mundukide. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
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