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Research, creativity and technology
for the future
ESCOFET is a Barcelona-based industry that designs and manufactures quality, high-class products in architectural concrete and cast stone.
Thanks to its long experience, audacity and future vision, Escofet is now a market leader, a meeting point for the industrial avant-garde and modern architecture.
Our pioneering strategy involving the anticipation of demand, in interaction with our designers, our research leadership, our creation of an universal vocabulary of |
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urban elements, and our well-chosen logistical service, have all been key components in the growth and world-wide expansion of Escofet.
Since its foundation, Escofet has helped to improve citizens' quality of life and stimulate their imagination. Our heavy reliance on innovation and our constructive criteria have opened up new fields in the creation of city spaces and building, making the most of cutting edge technology applied to the excellent qualities of concrete and other materials as well.
Escofet encourages the creation of timeless city spaces. Our products have an unfading style thanks to their rigorously researched design, their universal application and their strict material condition that defines an urban vocabulary linked to history while looking towards the future.
Innovation and work
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multidisciplinary exchanges with teams of consultant architects, designers and artists who have a special ability to reinterpret every process, each material, over and over again until they come up with results that provide us with the ability to create and disseminate new solutions.
Our long experience makes it easy for us to provide full support as specialist consultants for the development of highly complex projects and provide made-to-measure solutions. Escofet is thus an architect-project-product interface. An interface with an optimum competitive edge and ability to manage any project and standardize unique items, no matter how complex, in a new catalogue of more stimulating elements for widespread use.
We nurture and promote corporate innovation, not only in terms of production but also in the creation of intangible values: our material culture and the image associated with our trademark, are the Escofet paradigm. |
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Evolution of our logo |
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1905, Josep Pascó |
1932, Leo Zeller |
1960, Alexandre Cirici |
1974, América Sánchez |
1992, América Sánchez |
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1886 |
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Company foundation |
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Paver manufacturer ESCOFET y FORTUNY, Sociedad Colectiva, founded by Jaume Escofet. Later became Escofet y Tejero. Awarded the 1888 Barcelona World Trade Fair Gold Medal.
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1906 |
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Modernist hydraulic tiles.
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1906 |
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Modernist hydraulic tiles.
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Modernist hydraulic tiles manufactured by Escofet in conjunction with renowned architects like Lluís Domènech i Montaner and Alexandre de Riquer. The most outstanding example is Antoni Gaudí's Hexagonal Tile for the Pedrera building interiors. An adaptation of this model was used 90 years later to pave Barcelona's Paseo de Gracia. |
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1916 |
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Conquest of urban space.
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1916 |
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Conquest of urban space.
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Escofet enters the streetscape sector with the production of ‘panots’ for Barcelona's pedestrian pavements, marking the start of its close relationship with the city's public spaces. |
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1950 |
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Cast stone changes the face of the city.
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1950 |
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Cast stone changes the face of the city.
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1950 |
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Cast stone changes the face of the city.
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Escofet brings vibropressed cast stone to Spain with the production several automatically produced models that prove ideal for indoor and outdoor use. The company's presence in Barcelona is consolidated with several high-profile pavements including the Ramblas, designed by Adolfo Florensa in 1968. |
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1970 |
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Facades open up to new technology.
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1970 |
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Facades open up to new technology.
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Escofet enters the building sector with its reinforced cast stone wall panels, generating a series of design and technical skills for prefabricated construction components. |
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1979 |
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Street furniture becomes a mirror of the city.
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1979 |
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Street furniture becomes a mirror of the city.
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1979 |
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Street furniture becomes a mirror of the city.
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Escofet's range of street furniture starts with the collection of modular benches by Ramón Benedito and Josep Lluscà. In 1987, the range is expanded with a new collection by leading Spanish architects, co-ordinated by Xavier Güell: Jaume Bach, Gabi Mora, Óscar Tusquets, Elías Torres, José Antonio Martínez-Lapeña, Josep Lluís Canosa, Albert Viaplana and Hélio Piñón.
They are soon joined by other teams including Enric Sòria and Jordi Garcés, Antonio Cruz and Antonio Ortiz.
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1980 |
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A natural step towards internationalization.
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1980 |
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A natural step towards internationalization.
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1980 |
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A natural step towards internationalization.
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The company's international image, recognized in several European markets from the outset, is intensified by collaboration with US architects on a number of large-scale projects in Saudi Arabia and Oman. Escofet's international presence has continued to grow, and now spans the European Union, the USA, Japan and other countries. |
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1992 |
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Great projects, great challenges.
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1992 |
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Great projects, great challenges.
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Escofet's participation in large-scale projects intensifies during the works for the Barcelona 92 Olympic Games: Palau Sant Jordi by Arata Izosaki, the Olympic Ring by Correa, Milà, Margarit and Buixadé, Palau Nacional by Gae Aulenti, along with the paving and street furniture installed in the city's newly reurbanized zones. Escofet is awarded the National Design Prize for its consistent historic background. |
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2001 |
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Escofet and design: an inexhaustible encounter.
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2001 |
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Escofet and design: an inexhaustible encounter.
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2001 |
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Escofet and design: an inexhaustible encounter.
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Escofet's involvement with design and new disciplines such as landscaping is awarded the Adi-FAD Golden Delta Award for Lungomare, by Enric Miralles and Benedetta Tagliabue. |
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2004 |
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Presence and character in new streetscapes.
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2004 |
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Presence and character in new streetscapes.
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2004 |
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Presence and character in new streetscapes.
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Escofet's involvement with new streetscapes comes to the fore in the Barcelona Culture Forum 2004, with landscape features like Xurret by Ábalos and Herreros and the street furniture for the Forum Esplanade by Elías Torres and J.Antonio Martínez-Lapeña. |
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2010 |
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Features that create landscapes.
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2010 |
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Features that create landscapes.
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The design of new landscape features that conjugate architecture and nature emerges in Escofet's work in conjunction with architect Toyo Ito for the Barcelona Trade Fair expansion project. |
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Commitment to specialization
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Today, Escofet is still in constant evolution, with a fairly similar corporate and production policy that has been revitalized and updated
in the following aspects:
- Production approached in industrial rather than craft terms. Our industrial perspective is enriched by a strategy linked
to tertiary services, design, research and development of products for special architecture and urban landscape projects. Customers need to know that Escofet takes a double-pronged line of action: the design and manufacture of standard products, but at the same time, the design and manufacture of products for special projects…
- Proprietary technology: The pioneering spirit of our products has always been underpinned by constant adaptations in our company's technological systems.
- From pavements to sub-systems: Escofet initially focused on indoor and outdoor paving, but today, our products have become intrinsic components of building systems for architecture and urban infrastructure (facades and street furniture). |
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| - Policy of blending art and industry: Definition of our products in collaboration with leading architects and designers. Global trends have steered us towards a type of specialization in which corporations evolve from their traditional role as mere suppliers of street furniture into specialist consultants in the development of increasingly complex projects. In this context, Escofet is a veritable architect-project-product interface with an optimum competitive edge for managing these projects and standardising unique products for widespread use, regardless of their complexity. |
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Responsibility
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Commitment to People
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In the course of its history, ESCOFET 1886 SA has forged a corporate philosophy using the criteria of respect for the environment, workplace security and safety, and quality. This same philosophy was the motivation for our Environmental Management System, which culminated in 2005 with the ISO 14001 Standard, certified by AENOR.
In 2008, ESCOFET 1886 S.A incorporated the OHSAS 18001 Workplace Security and Health Standard into the company's management system as part of our ongoing improvements. This process concluded with official certification in 2010. Our voluntary inclusion of these new standards with a view to meeting social and environmental demands are clear proof of ESCOFET's desire and commitment to ongoing improvements and the inclusion of a value-added people- and environment-friendly component in its products. |
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Material and Molds
Research and Innovation |
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The industrial designs developed by Escofet inevitably require constant audacity to expand the potential of cast stone as a material, including its production process, from items requiring simple manufacture (steps, curbs, etc. ), to utterly unique elements. Our products are developed under the coordination of a designer and our technicians, making the manufacturing method as such a participant in the project's conceptual base.
Every context requires a different approach, which is why Escofet works with a broad palette of materials (moulded cast stone, cast aluminium, stainless steel, Cor-Ten steel, wood, glass and plastic), permanently researching and innovating to ensure top quality textures and colours with crafted finishes that provide high value.
A product conceived as an industrial object requires specific technology for each high-quality mould. We use steel, fibreglass-reinforced polyester, elastomers and wood, depending on the shape of the pieces and the envisaged output. An outer metal reinforcement is included to withstand the weight and the stress during the mould's filling, handling and final removal. The curved Naguisa modular bench is a good example of the limitless potential of our models and moulds for the production of complex geometries. |
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Escofet
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ESCOFET 1886 SA
Head office and production
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Polígono Industrial La Torre
Montserrat 162
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Barcelona - Spain |
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T.00 34 93 773 71 50
F.00 34 93 773 71 66 |
info@escofet.com
www.escofet.com |
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GPS Coordinates |
Latitude 41º 29’ 18.70’‘ (N)
Longitude 1ª 54’ 53,29’’ (E) |
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Update5.23.2013
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