Alucoil, a leading Spanish manufacturer of aluminium and other metallic composite panels for building facades, will be making its debut at the Big 5 this year, in order to tap the market for its products that are designed for use in high-rise construction.

In a bid to create awareness of its products, Alucoil will be promoting seven types of composites for architectural façades, under the Larson and Signi brand name, for the GCC markets at the show.
“We will be showcasing our existing product lines of Larson, Larson FR (fire resistant), Larson Wood, Larson Metals (copper, stainless steel, zinc and anodic) and Signi in various thicknesses and finishes,” says Borja Churruca, export manager of the company.
Alucoil recently introduced three new ranges of composite panels: Larson Wood and Larson Metals and Larson Termolac.
Produced in a thickness of 4 mm, these products can be considered innovations on a worldwide scale due to their features, he says. Larson Wood is offered in five different finishes that resemble wood and requires no maintenance. This product is made with a PVC film specifically designed for external use with a wooden finish.
Under the brand Larson Metals, Alucoil manufactures stainless steel, copper, zinc and brass composite panels, which do not require any surface treatment.
The Larson Termolac range, which allows the production of any RAL colour, can be offered in the same finish as the carpentry profiles.
“Our range of products, quality and excellent service have ensured the success of Larson composite panels in the Spanish and Portuguese markets within a span of five years. Our production capacity has doubled since we launched production of this line and has now reached around one million sq m per year,” he adds.
“Larson composite panels offer unique advantages in high-rise building construction as they allow for architectural ventilated and light façades. Larson PE comprise two aluminium alloy 5005-H22 sheets with high-density polyethylene core. The external face is coated with three layers of high-resistance PvdF (polyvinylidene difluoride) paint and the internal face is primed. Thanks to the introduction of high-density polyethylene in the core, the use of metal is reduced considerably and so is the weight of each panel. It is also offered in a range of finishing possibilities.
The Larson range of products is completed with the Signi composite panels measuring between 2 to 4 mm, which have been designed primarily to satisfy demand from the fields of corporate identity, signage, interiors, industrial sector and other uses.
Alucoil constantly invests in research and development to develop new products and a new range of composite panels for the building industry is already in the pipeline.
The company has already established itself as a leader in Spain and Portugal and with increasing sales in the European Union and North Africa and is keenly eyeing the region with a view to establishing an office in the Gulf.
“Alucoil has recently installed a third line for manufacturing composite panels which has boosted our production capacity to four million sq m per year. We have also expanded our facilities by another 4,000 sq m which takes our total office, warehouse and production space to over 29,000 sq m,” says Churruca.
“We also have five lines for coil and sheet coating – under the brand name of Termolac – as well as two lines for profile shaping and a machine centre for processing composite panels with a capacity of 20,000 sq m per month,” he adds.
Established in 1996 in Miranda de Ebro in Burgos in Spain and part of the Madrid-based Aliberico Group, Alucoil currently has five commercial offices in the European Union with 19 plants, 17 warehouses and 23 commercial offices across Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic and North Africa with over 800 professionals exporting to 32 countries. The company has a staff strength of 100 and registered a total turnover of $30 million last year.
“We hold an 85 per cent of the market share in composite panels in Spain and are one of the leading companies in Europe. Besides Europe, we also have many projects overseas in the US and Africa. Although we have not supplied to any projects in the Gulf right now, I feel that there is large market or our products in the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia where so many high-rise buildings are coming up,” he adds.
Alucoil offers unique services such as machining of the composite panels – with cutting, routing, drilling, punching and curving possible – according to the needs of different customers. The company also has an in-house team of skilled technical workers to advise installers and architects. Many technical solutions can be downloaded for free through the company’s web page.
The technical support does not end there. The company also offers a façade calculation programme designed by the Aeronautics Engineering School of Madrid Polytechnic University and confirmed by building authorised bodies such as the Eduardo Torroja Institute for Construction Science in Spain – a member of UEAtc (European Union of Agreement for technical approvals) – which can define the parameters of installing under the certified systems covered by each European Technical approval.
Alucoil has received several technical approvals within the European Union such as the Avis Technique from the CSTB (Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment) in France, and the DIT (Documento de Idoneidad Technica) from the Torroja Institute, among others. In 1998 Alucoil was granted ISO 9001 for the manufacture of composite panels Larson and currently is integrated between ISO 9001 and ISO 14001.
Alucoil will be exhibiting at Stand 2C 91 in Hall 2.