At MACOGA, we are extremely proud of our heritage and the company we’ve become today. Throughout our history, it has been the dedication of our family and team members that has allowed us to grow into a leading global manufacturer of Expansion Joints.
Coming from humble beginnings, our history dates back to the 60s when the founders, Manuel Concheiro and his sons Mario and Carlos established a petrol station and a small workshop dealing with technical products for serving the Spanish industry.
This space housed some of the company’s first breakthrough expertise and big ideas that would later come into the present production of Expansion Joints.
The founders decided to build a first factory on the outskirts of the village.
Thanks to their determination and enthusiasm, the small company soon grew and early in the 70’s the first Expansion Joints were designed, manufactured and shipped from MACOGA.
From the very beginning the founders had an international and global vision of the business. Exports were initiated and since 1980 Europe and America became our main markets.
Our presence on the international markets became stronger and stronger and soon our exports reached extraordinary levels.
This was the start of a decade of change. MACOGA grows exponentially. The strategy of investing in innovation, development of new machines, construction of new buildings is a great success and puts us in the pole position.
Innovation is considered a strategic value for MACOGA and is a fundamental tool to guarantee the efficiency and competitiveness of the company.
MACOGA develops many innovative technologies and design and manufacturing of Expansion Joints became our area of expertise.
In the same decade, already aware of the need for certification of our quality system and our products, we started certification processes with great success, obtaining in 1991 TÜV AD-Merkbaltter, in 1994 ISO 9001, in 1997 ASME U Stamp and in 2002 CE Marking.
With an unrivalled and virtually unlimited manufacturing capacity we specialize in High Tech Expansion Joints for complex processes and environments, high temperature, high pressure, etc. and focus on large diameters, special materials, etc. for any industrial application.
In addition to special units, our production range covers all types of expansion joints, from the simplest standard to the most complex ones.
Great goals are achieved during this period.
In this decade we became a world leader in the manufacture of Expansion Joints.
For more than 50 years, we have been developing solutions and manufacturing Expansion Joints for every industrial application and today we support customers in over 90 countries around the globe.
Throughout this journey, we’ve grown with our customers, we have developed many innovative technologies and design and manufacturing of Expansion Joints became our area of expertise.
We are leaders in designing, manufacturing and delivering Metal and Rubber Expansion Joints to customers on a global scale.
We pride ourselves on providing our customers with the widest range of Expansion Joints and On-Site Services offering engineered solutions and unrivaled customer service.
From raw material to final product, all under one roof.
We own all processes involved in the production of every expansion joint that departs our premises.
One of MACOGA's main success factors is our modern and constantly improving machinery, technical equipment and facilities.
Using high-tech equipment we offer our customers competitive products of the highest quality.
Our production centre is equipped with modern automated machinery and equipment from the world's leading manufacturers as well as countless machines designed by our engineers and manufactured by ourselves specifically to manufacture expansion joints.
Some highlights of our facilities:
We have excellent in-house facilities and machinery which empower our team to deliver high quality expansion joints.
We are conveniently located in NW Spain near two international airports (SCQ and LCG) and two deep-water oceanic seaports (Vigo and La Coruna).
Ensuring the health, safety and security of our employees, and protecting the environment are fundamental priorities for MACOGA.
We uphold these values in the same way that we ensure the quality of our work: by implementing rigorous controls through every phase of our production processes.
Our people receive training on how to perform their jobs safely, properly and in compliance with environmental regulations. Safety is the responsibility of every employee at MACOGA, and “zero incidents” is our foremost goal.
Environmental protection is part of our corporate citizenship.
Protecting the environment is one of MACOGA’s fundamental priorities.
We believe environmental responsibility goes beyond regulatory compliance. We continually strive to meet and where practicable exceed strict safety, health and environmental performance targets and we are committed to continuous improvement in all aspects of our operations.
We are committed to ensuring that our facilities have as low an impact as possible on local people and the environment.
We recycle paper, plastic, packaging, batteries, etc. in our offices and all the waste generated during the production process receives its corresponding legally mandatory collection and recycling.
The dangerous toxic waste generated (oil, picklers, paint strippers, etc.) is treated in strict accordance with the Environmental Directives, 100% of our steel waste is recycled and reused in other areas of the industry, we have special zones designed to prevent certain production processes from emitting harmful and pollutant elements into the atmosphere (paint cabin and plasma cutting machinery with highly efficient purifying filters, X Ray bunker, etc.) and we have emergency plans for critical situation that imply possible environmental impact.
Our expansion joints are present in more than 90 countries across all continents performing demanding tasks and we build this global experience into every expansion joint and support service that bears our name. We listen and learn about the challenges our customers face and strive to help meet them.
MACOGA is always ready to provide support exceeding customer expectations.
We strongly believe in developing long-term partnerships with our clients in order to provide them with lasting strategic benefits. We believe our reference list of first-class clients below reflects our commitment..
This is a sample of some of our important clients in different key industry sectors:
BP • CEPSA • Conoco Phillips • Ecopetrol • Engie • Eni • Esso • ExxonMobil • GALP • Gazprom Neft • Hellenic Petroleum • Kuwait Petroleum Corporation • Lukoil • MOL • National Iranian Oil Company • Neste Oil • OMV Group • Orpic • PDVSA • Pemex • Petrobras • Petrogal • Petronas • Petronas • Petronor • Petroperu • PKN Orlen • PKN Orlen • Preem • Qatar Petroleum • Repsol • Rosneft • Royal Dutch Shell • Sarlux • Saudi Aramco • Slovnaft • SOCAR • Sonatrach • Statoil • Total • Unipetrol
Abener • Alstom • Andritz • Ansaldo • Babcock Wilcox • Cez, s.a. • Dominion • Dominion Energy • EDF • Edison Spa • Electrabel • Endesa • Enel • Fluor • Fuji Electric • FW Energía • Gas Natural • GE • Honeywell • Iberdrola • Kawasaki Heavy Industries • MAN • MHI • Mitsui • Reykjavík Energy • Saipem • Siemens • Skoda • SPX • Technip • Toyo Engineering
ABB • Acciona • Aker • Amec Foster Wheeler • Bechtel • Bilfingfer • CB&I • Danieli • Enka • Fluor • GS Engineering & Construction • Hyundai E&C • Intecsa • Jacobs • JGC • KBR • Metka • Mitusi • Petrofac • Saipem • Samsung Engineering Co. • Snamprogetti • SNC Lavalin Inc. • Techint • Technimont • Technip • Tecnicas Reunidas • Tecnipetrol • Tekfen • Toyo Engineering Corp. • UOP • WorleyParsons
Air Liquide • AkzoNobel • BASF • Bayer • BP • Dow Chemical • DSM • DuPont • ExxonMobil • Huntsman • Ineos • LyondellBasell • Praxair • Repsol Quimica • SABIC • Sasol • Saudi Aramco • Sinopec • Solvay • Yara International
Acerinox • Alcan Aluminium • Alcoa • Aluminium Bahrein • ArcelorMittal • British Steel • Corus • Direct Iron Reduction Company • Dubai Aluminium • Glencore • Kaiser Aluminium • Kvaerner Metals • Outokumpu • Salzgitter AG • Siderperu • Sidor • SSAB • Thyssenkrupp • U.S. Steel Corporation • Voestalpine • Zinc Corporation of America
Asmar • Blohm + Voss • ENVC Shipyard • Fincantieri • Navantia • Orskov Yard AS • STX Finland
Air Warfare Destroyer Alliance • Armada De Chile • Excalibur Army • Lockheed Martin • Navantia • Patria • Spanish Navy
Ence • Indah Kiat Pulp & Paper Co • Kvaerner Pulping • Metso Paper • Millikosky • Portucel Soporcel • Renova • Stora Enso • Svenska Cellulosa • Weyerhaeuser Paper Mill
Aventis • Calvo Pesca • Coren • Helios • Kraft • Nestle • San Miguel • Unilever
Abbott • Akzo nobel • Celtia • Glaxosmithkline • Merck • Novartis • Pfizer • Procter & gamble • Solvay
