1959
ELABORADOS METALICOS, S.A. (EMESA) starts its activity specialising in the
manufacturing of steel: Furnace, Casting, Lamination, Structures, Wire Drawing,
Metal Forming and Ironwork, reaching a workforce of 1,200 employees.
1983
EMESA-TREFILERIA, S.A. is spinned off from EMESA to specialise exclusively in the
manufacturing of Steel for prestressing and post-tensioning. Its premises were moved
to its current location in the Poligono de Sabón, Arteixo (La Coruna).
1989
EMESA-TREFILERIA, S.A. was acquired by ENSIDESA (Empresa Nacional Siderúrgica)
[National iron and Steel Company] because of its outstanding results in manufacturing
PC Wires and Strands.
1992
The ENSIDESA Group became CSI (Corporación Siderúrgica Integral) [Integral Iron and
Steel Corporation] in order to be restructured before its privatization.
1997
CSI was privatised under the name ACERALIA becoming one of the largest steel groups
in Europe with the participation of the ARISTRAIN and ARBED groups.
2002
In February of this year, USINOR (France), ARBED (Luxemburg) and ACERALIA (Spain)
created ARCELOR to become the world leader in the steel industry.
2004
The Companhía Prevident, Sociedade de Controle de Participaçoes Financieras, S.A.
acquired 100% of Emesa-Trefilería, S.A.’s share capital from ARCELOR. With this
purchase, Companhía Previdente built up an important group of wire drawing companies,
together with Sociedade Industrial de Trefilaría, S.A. (Socitrel) and Industrias
Gálycas,S.A. Subsequently, in 2005 Italcables Spa was added to this group of companies
and known as The Previdente Group