David Blanco – General Manager Intec-Air
5 May 2022
The name of Intec-Air appears for the first time in a public document on July 22, 1993. It was located in a warehouse in Tres Caminos, in the Technological Park of Puerto Real, Cádiz. A family company, with a small number of workers, dedicated mainly to the assembly of emergency doors of the MD-11 and Fuselage and Cone of the Super Puma, in addition to aerospace sheet metal work and that absorbed the activity and workers of another company called COMASA.
After growing with the integration in the Cluster (Andalucía Aeroespacial) and increasing the portfolio with CASA (Construcciones Aeronáuticas, currently Airbus), on April 14, 1999, the company moved to the Technological Park of Zona Franca in Cádiz, beting for the sector and for the creation of employment. At the head of this project was a group of young engineers from the University of Cadiz led by the brave entrepreneur and professor of the university, Mr. José Mora Benabad. This challenge meant the commitment to create more than 150 jobs, reaching more than 300 employees.
In a 4,000-square-meter building, the sheet metal work, assembly and chemical baths were installed. A second step was when it expanded to another building of another 4,000 square meters, separating the sheet metal final processes in one of them and assembly-expedition in another.
These were years of excitement and challenges, which gave us a lot of experience and learning.
In this period, between the end of the 90’s and the beginning of the century, our relationship with Aernnova began, specifically with the SJ30 program and later with the ERJ, CRJ and Airbus programs. The relationship was so strong that in 2005 Aernnova Group acquired Intec-Air.
Since then, Intec-Air has consolidated as an industry in the sector, participating in numerous work packages of a high technological variety.
OUR FIGURES
750 raw material codes, 600 HW and Chemical codes to manufacture 14,000 NPs and deliver 9,000 end items with 4 levels of structure, spread over 43 programs/projects/customers.
Annual production of 280,000 parts/elements in 50,000 production batches, to deliver 30,000 order lines to our customers. This combination leads us to manage nearly 1,000 operations per day.
Dimensions from 0.1 to 8 meters.
MAJOR MILESTONES FROM 2005:
2.005: Acquisition by Aernnova
2.009: TOW of the S Puma program assembly at Aernnova Andalucía.
2.012: Contract with Pilatus for the development and manufacture of Skins and Leading Edges for its new Business Jet PC24.
2.014: Change of the planning method, implementing the “smooth planning” unlinked to the fluctuating customer demand. Coverage management with the group’s tools, representing a great leap in the quality of parts supply management to assembly.
2.015: Integrated rudder and aileron management contract with ADs and achievement of the award for the supplier with the greatest improvement.
2.016: Development of pure and alloyed titanium forming.
2.017: Obtaining by Hydroforming of parts of stretching technology, giving the opportunity to enter in packages of higher added value and mitigate risks for the group due to failure in suppliers.
2.018: (i) Development and implementation of spray masking, (ii) Development of welding technology and risk mitigation in the group in A320, (iii) 2.018, Implementation of Pull programming between “Polca” centers, (iv) Cactus projects with Bombardier Canada of 24 million eur in 8 years and giving the possibility of creating a manufacturing line oriented to curved panels with Chemical Milling.
2019: Development and start-up of a semi-automatic cell for riveting floating nuts.
2.021: Switch to purchasing management of all raw materials from ANN and machining suppliers “B1”.
Entry into new Fokker customer for chemical milling of panels for Gulfstream.
2.022: Internalization of TIP A350 welding.
Intec-Air is currently a mature company, a reference in sheet metal technology and aerospace assembly, with customers in the 5 continents. It encompasses a high variety of metal processes associated with the manufacture of sheet metal and aeronautical assembly, from raw material management, through sheet metal processes (forming, CNC, hydroforming, heat treatments…), coating line with chemical milling and other processes (anodizing, alodizing, penetrating liquids, painting…), as well as the integral management of the assembly of subassemblies, small structures, and large direct elements to FAL (Elevators, Ailerons and Rudders).
THE FUTURE:
In addition to the years of experience, we continue to maintain our enthusiasm and strength with the aim of consolidating our position as a leading company in high value-added products in sheet metal technology, based on the 6 pillars of the company and providing strategic support to it.
For this we have a team of 203 employees, with an average experience of 20 years, qualified and certified in the different manufacturing areas that are divided into:
Technical Office with proven experience in industrialization, planning and project development, including our own laboratory and 10 processes with Nadcap certification. We are backed by a large number of clients in this area.
Quality management, planning and production teams divided into mini-factories (production areas differentiated according to technologies and processes within the factory itself):
1.- Mini-factory 1- sheet metal area, includes raw material management processes, shears, numerical control straightening machine, bending machine, folding machine, leveller, hydroforming presses, heat treatment furnaces and manual forming.
2.- Minifactory 2- chemical milling area, inspection by penetrating liquids, alodizing baths, tartaric anodizing and painting.
3.-Minifactory 3- assembly area: assembly of subassemblies, frames, leading edges, rudders and ailerons…
4.-Minifactory 4-final inspection area, warehouse, packaging and expeditions.
