ROOM 7: MACHINING

MACHINING PROCESSES

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Here in this massive room the different stages of production were distributed, and so it remains. This chamber was subsequently built to the workshop of San Carlos at the beginning of the 50's, with the aim of keeping the different production branches and its workers together in the same place. This was implemented in order to improve the productive and labour performance when it was no longer necessary to spread the factories near the water obstacles, and thus it was possible to bring energy together for the proper functioning of the factories. The design belongs to the features of the manufacturing construction, such as saw tooth patterns or Shed covers with glazed skylights. This arrangement kept verticality in each one of the saw tooth patterns, which made it easier to shed the sunlight by the workshop place.

In 2000, the original chamber was divided into several warehouses in order to accommodate a business incubator that finally did not develop.In this room you can look at some of the different production channels that have been traditionally developed in these factories, as well as very singular machinery from the 19th and 20th centuries.