Turning metal blows
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staple took time

The most globalised, complex, influential, demanding, coldly calculating, politicised and cross-cutting industrial sector on the planet is the manufacture of transport vehicles. For the most part in History, wheels were made of wood and pushed by animals. In little more than a hundred years, we have gone from the first artisanal assembly workshops to robotised mega-factories, from iron to steel and aluminium. We have stopped turning levers and now ask cars where to go for coffee. Progress is never an upward straight line, but a series of abrupt steps. That is why remaining on the crest of the automotive wave for 70 years is such a feat, especially when geography has placed us at one of the ends of the Eurasian continent.

Companies like Rubí Automotive are at the basis of every engineering idea. We build the parts with which engineers and industrial designers manufacture their dreams. What began as an exercise in physical strength with oil presses that rang like bells across the streets of Vitoria, has become a European key player with automated plants and cutting-edge robotics. The vigour is the same, but we can now manufacture each piece much more precisely in a never-ending repetition. Our history is also plagued by blows and historical events that have shaped us for several generations. These are the most important ones: