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ARCHITECTURAL ALUMINIUM AND PVC SYSTEMS

Founded in 1972 in Padrón (A Coruña), Spain, CORTIZO is the principal manufacturer and

distributor of aluminium systems for construction in Spain, with an annual aluminium profile

production of 55.634 tons. The company is present in more than 30 countries and is currently

immersed in an ambitious internationalization process and has reached a turnover in the last

financial year of 338 million euros.

Figures

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Turnover: 338 million euros

2014 production : 55.634 metric tonnes

8 Production Centres

31 Distribution and Logistics centres

Presence in more than 30 countries

More than 2,000 Employees

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Business modelThe company relies on a vertically integrated business model and based on design and R & D and Innovation that allows it to reach a competitive

maximum level with respect to lead times, prices and guarantees in all of the countries it operates in.

Cortizo InnovationThe research, the design and the technological applications are situated

at the centre of the expansion strategy. In fact, the R & D and Innovation

Department has designed more than 50 exclusive window, door, façade,

balustrade, composite panel systems as well as the latest generation of

solar protection systems.

The company invests annually in more than 72,000 research hours and

an average of 165 Innovation and Development projects.

At the same time, CORTIZO offers to all Architectural professionals the

necessary technical support for building finishes. From its Department

of Architecture and Engineering more than 26,000 hours of consultation

has been offered that are reflected in more than 1,000 architectural

projects and more than 20,000 technical consultations over the last

year. These have been attended to from its 22 offices that cover all of the

European territory.

Integral production cycleCORTIZO characterizes itself by completing internally the integral cycle

of aluminium production ensuring that each procedure with respect to

quality of the methods and materials used is rigorously employed

throughout the whole process.

Smelting, extrusion, powder coating, anodising, chemical brightening

and fabrication is carried out in our own production centres in order to

optimise the quality of all its range of end products.

The CORTIZO integral service is completed with a pioneering logistics

system based on two automatic warehouses with a capacity of 5,000

tonnes of the most common profile types , reducing client lead times

and maximising production levels.

Cortizo Immediacy

In order to supply efficiently and quickly to all the markets that it operates in, CORTIZO

has five production centres in Europe and capacity to manufacture all the components

(profiles, hardware and gaskets) for its building solutions. An extensive network of

CORTIZO Distribution and Logistical Centres cover the surrounding areas and

guarantees supply all of the Spanish Territories. With respect to exports, CORTIZO

has available its own commercial network in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-

Herzegovina, Croatia, Denmark, Slovakia, Slovenia, Finland, France, Great Britain,

Holland, Hungary, Ireland, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Montenegro, Norway, Poland,

Portugal, Czech Republic, Romania, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, Lithuania,

Latvia and Estonia.

Spain

Slovakia

Poland

In Spain, CORTIZO has five large production centres located in Padrón (A Coruña), Manzanares (Cuidad Real) and

Granadilla de Abona (Santa Cruz de Tenerife), and Mieres (Asturias) that have between them 8 extrusion presses,

11 powder coating plants, 2 smelter, 4 anodising plants, 1 chemical brightening plant and 1 fabrication centre

capable of producing 55,500 metric tonnes of profiles per year made to measure for each architectonic project.

The company also has a factory dedicated to the production of exclusive accessories known as STAC (Technical

Systems for Accessories and Components) that produces and sells more than 270,000 pieces daily. Its

installations have various automatic transfer lines (high speed production), injection moulders for plastic, zamak

and aluminium as well as a totally automated powder coating plant. At the same time, its STACPOL division is

dedicated to the extrusion and co-extrusion of thermoplastic s and vulcanised rubber seals and gaskets producing

150,000 metres daily in its four totally mechanised production lines. Furthermore, STAC produces an exclusive

product for carrying out architectonic façades made up of a “sándwich” panel with two aluminium sheets joined by

a thermoplastic resin nucleus known as STACBOND. Its about an efficient solution, economical, aesthetic and

sustainable for the re-covering of building façades similarly for new construction projects or the re-furbishment of

older constructions. Finally, the STACMID division produces extruded polyamide profiles, with an average daily

production of 30,000 metres by way of 6 extrusion lines.

In Slovakia, CORTIZO has a factory of more than 32,000 m² in Nová Baña. Situated in the geographic and

demographic centre of Europe, this production centre allows us to attend with great agility the UE-28 market as

well as the fledgling business opportunities that are arising in the emerging Europe. With facilities of 3 extrusion

presses, 2 powder coating plants, an anodising plant and a fabrication centre, CORTIZO Slovakia integrates a

production potential of 20,000 metric tonnes of aluminium profiles per annum.

In Poland, CORTIZO has a Production Centre situated in the locality of Radomsko, in the heart of the country, that

centres its production, not just for the powerful Polish market, but to Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Latvia,

Lithuania and Esonia. With a covered surface area of 10,500 m², CORTIZO Polska has available an extrusion

press, a double cabin powder coating plant, a thermal break assembly line with resistance and traction computer

control, a warehouse for mill finish and anodised profiles, a hardware warehouse and another for composite panel

with pantograph in order to be able to offer a finished product ready for fitting to site. A latest generation CNC

carries out precisión cutting and fabrication of aluminium profiles destined for industry. Its production capacity

reaches 6,000 tonnes of aluminium per year.

Production Centres

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Cortizo Technology Centre

CORTIZO has at its headquarters in Padrón (A Coruña) Spain, a

Technology Centre which is a pioneer in Europe dedicated to the

research, development and innovation in the aluminium sector. With a

total surface area of 3,175 m², this Centre consists of 8 test benches

where the features of the more than 50 exclusive window and door

systems, light façades, solar protection systems and balustrade

designed by the company are tested and certified.

Two AEV test benches serve to check and guarantee the air permeability,

water tightness and wind resistance of its products. A thermal test bench

is employed to measure the features of all the systems with respect to

efficiency and energy savings. An accoustic test bench optimises the

protection that CORTIZO windows and façades offer against noise and

accoustic contamination. Finally, a test bench that simulates, for

example, 50,000 opening cycles of a window to test the resistance and

durability of its hardware and gaskets.

In addition, the Technological Centre has a test bench for horizontal

loads and impact resistance for light facades, a test bench for windloads

resistance for solar protection louvres and dynamic and static test

benches for balustrades

It is constantly clear that each time more documented certifications are

necessary just as in its project phase as in the execution of a building.

CORTIZO offers to the bodies of architects, constructors and fabricators,

the implementation of official tests in its Technology Centre free of

charge if the elements used in their project are CORTIZO. Also

available, is the possibility of assisting at a test to check in situ the

window features and to know at first hand the work that is being

developed by the various Architectural and Engineering teams.

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Cortizo Consultancy

Departments of Architecture and Engineering

With its objective of offering personalised technical assistance to Architects in their own work areas, CORTIZO counts

on a network of 33 Departments of Architecture and Engineering in close proximity and strategically situated in

diverse points of the country both in Europe.

These departments are led by Aluminium Systems Technicians (TSAC), consisting of engineers, architects and

technician architects with wide experience and specific training in building finishing in aluminium. The TSAC

network can provide to these bodies all the technical support necessary, as well as optimising the suitability and

integration of the ample range of CORTIZO systems in the distinct architectonic projects to be carried out.

The objective of this exclusive service is to offer to the professionals in the sector a greater proximity to the provision

of integral solutions in building enclosures for their projects.

CE Marking

Also, and due to the CE Marking demands made by the European Commission in all windows and external pedestrian

doors in a building, CORTIZO can also count on within its Department of Architecture and Engineering, a pioneering and

unique area within the companies in this sector that is intended as an exclusive way of obtaining the CE Marking. This area

is available to clients of CORTIZO in order to advise them concerning all questions that relate to the CE Marking, as well as

working hand in hand with them in order to guarantee the total compliance of all of the regulations.

In this way, CORTIZO positions itself as the leading Spanish systems manufacturer that has created a specific area in order

to advise its clients on how to obtain the CE Marking.

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TSAC NETWORK

Cortizo Training

With the spirit of passing on and sharing with all the architectural and

building professionals the solid know-how acquired over more than 40

years of experience, CORTIZO has created the CORTIZO TRAINING

DIVISION which gives personalised and individualised training to all

the agents involved in the sector.

From this Division, CORTIZO stimulates and encourages past common

experiences between these bodies and the company, by way of creating

participation forums and pooling of knowledge and architectonic

projects that make up aluminium building enclosures.

As a result, CORTIZO has presented to date more than 150 Seminars

attended by more than 5,000 professionals concerning Energy

Efficiency and Compliance of the Technical Building Code at the various

Spanish Architectural Associations throughout the country.

Furthermore, the company collaborates with the Faculties of

Architecture, Surveyors and Technical Architects in all of Spain,

principally in reference to the subject of Materials and tackling from a

technical point of view, the practice and regulations in the use of

building enclosure materials.

Training videos regarding the assembly of each one of the CORTIZO

systems in order to ensure the máximum accuracy in its preparation and

installation, serve as a support, a complement and consolidation to the

training sessions presented by the Departments of Architecture and

Engineering in the various workshops within the CORTIZO network.

This completes the company initiative where the objective is to

constantly extend and renew its performance.

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Cortizo Sustainability

Sustainability constitutes a transverse commitment in all of the activities at CORTIZO and its workforce of more than 2,000

employees. The company can rely on more than 2,100 collection points spread between its clients and delegations so that

they can deposit the aluminium profile offcuts. A fleet of CORTIZO RECYLING trucks are responsibile in collecting the

aluminium and transferring it again to the production centres so that it can be taken to be smelted and in this way the

aluminium cycle is completed as 100 per cent reusable and recyclable.

Each CORTIZO production centre has its own purification plant in order to ensure the integral treatment of the residual waters

that are generated in the anodising and powder coating plants. The resulting sewage sludge from this purification process is

transported to collection plants that are specialised in the treatment of these residues ensuring the minimization of

environmental impact in all of the production processes.

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ARCHITECTURAL ALUMINIUM AND PVC SYSTEMS

For more information please contact

The Cortizo Communications Dept.

+34 981 804 213

comunicacion@cortizo.com