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Union, February 21, 2011.
The lifting machine, popular icon of the industrial era of the Union since the early twentieth century, will be renovated and converted into a cultural center, social, museum, research and training of the county, thanks to the collaboration established today between unionense City Council and the Foundation Raise The Machinist.
The mayor of La Union, Francisco Bernabé, and the president of the Foundation, Jorge Gonzalez, have signed this agreement under which the facilities of 12,000 square meters of old factory become municipal property for further rehabilitation and conversion an important initiative within the recovery efforts of local heritage that is being done in La Union for cultural and tourist.
Also, thanks to this agreement, the presiding González Foundation delivers the communication, by way of deposit, a large collection of patents and design models of industrial machines and several models of wood molding cast, elements that were used in your day at the manufacturing facilities of the lifting machine.
The Foundation, dedicated since 2009 to develop both cultural, social and educational and scientific, will this transfer to the models and patents at the time part of the collections that may be permanent or temporary exhibition within this project.
The lifting machine was a mechanical and iron and steel industry in La Union founded in 1890 by the wealthy mining Sáez Miguel Zapata - "Uncle Wolf" - who ordered its foundry facilities and construction of machinery which had the exclusive brand for all Spain.
The company, which got into his cast structures Lyceum Workers Union, the Old Public Market and the distinguished mansions in Cartagena, among others, was leading in Spain in the construction of centrifugal pumps, patented by herself, and was in its heyday with a staff of 300.
Commonwealth Miguel Zapata and Sons was forced to give up after the postwar years this company to the Society Peñarroya-Spain, SA for their orders to the Peñarroya own and other area businesses, especially Escombreras Oil Refinery until the crisis in the minerals sector in the eighties forced its closure on 1 July 1988.
Source: Ayuntamiento de La Unión
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