FACTORY
Pedro Roquet built a new factory in 2000 with the intention of expanding hydraulic cylinder production capacity to over 100,000 cylinders per year by 2004. This factory started production in September 2000, releasing capacity in the main plant (Tona) to increase production of valves, power packs and gate operators.

The factory trades as DINACIL, S.L. and is a member of the Pedro Roquet group of companies (other group companies include Tekor - gear pumps, Hy-Dom - gate operators and Fundiciones de Roda - castings).

DINACIL was built on a 10,000 sq. metre (100,000 sq. ft.) site in Centelles (50 km / 30 miles north of Barcelona) with an initial covered building area of 3,500 sq. metres (35,000 sq. ft.). In fact demand for hydraulic cylinders has been so high that the covered area was increased to 5,000 sq. metres in June 2002 and to 7,000 sq. metres in February 2003. Production in 2002 exceeded the originally planned figure for 2004. Capacity is being increased to 350,000 p.a. by late 2003.

The new factory is highly automated with the very latest machine tools and robotic systems for component transfer, welding, ultrasonic cleaning, assembly, testing, painting etc.

DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT
Our design and development departments work closely with customers to develop the most suitable designs for specific applications. Our development department is rather large for a company of this size and continuously conducts fatigue and life tests to customer specifications, as well as running parallel "pure" development projects to improve cylinder design and manufacturing systems.