José Fernando Sánchez-Junco, Chairman and CEO of MAXAM, has been appointed new patron of the New Technologies and Culture Foundation (Fundatec), the organisation entrusted with managing the MUMI. MAXAM has been working alongside the MUMI since 1997.
The first meeting of the new patrons took place yesterday, and was focused on finding opportunities to boost the offer for tourists in the El Entrego located Museum, in the heart of Asturias. The first steps agreed by the patrons were to coordinate offers with other museums and cultural centres in Asturias and to set up a workgroup. This group includes new members of the companies Hunosa y Orovalle, represented by its Chairwoman, Mª Teresa Mallada, and its Director General, Nuria Menéndez, respectively.
“Thanks to our collaboration with the MUMI, which dates back to the 1990s, we have helped to set up and promote one of the best museums in the world in terms of industry processes for the manufacture of explosives for mining. This partnership and its results are a source of pride", stated Sánchez-Junco.
The House of the Explosives
MAXAM, through its Foundation, sponsors The House of the Explosives at the MUMI (inaugurated in 1994, and over 60,000 visitors in 2015), which is dedicated to showing the origins of the explosives industry and its progression within the chemical sector. A dynamic, interactive permanent exhibition which sets out the initial developments in explosive products (black powder, hunting cartridges, detonators, etc.) and their role in the development of mining, which in turn led to the economic and industrial progress of our model of society. The collaboration between MAXAM Foundation and the MUMI is ongoing, a process which continues day-by-day through the study, cataloguing and exhibition of pieces which MAXAM's group of companies sends to Asturias from countries such as Bolivia, USA, Portugal, Greece, Bulgaria, and many others.
MAXAM Foundation
MAXAM Foundation is a non-profit organization which carries out patronage activities in the field of culture, and, specifically, painting. Moreover, the Foundation's mission is to organize, conserve and disseminate the historical heritage built up by MAXAM since its foundation by Alfred Nobel in 1872. It also organizes activities to promote and achieve goals related to research and development for civil, social, educational, scientific and technological purposes. Its main areas of activity are:-
• The organization, protection and preservation of the historical heritage of the company.
•The management of the MAXAM Collection of Paintings, founded in 1899, which every year provides the image for the company's famous Explosives Calendars.
• The Explosives Factory at the Museum of Mining and Industry of Asturias (www.mumi.es)
• The MAXAM Chair of Explosives Technology at the Higher Technical School of Mining Engineers of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM), through which the Foundation has signed training agreements with universities all around the world (Brazil, Bolivia, Spain, Finland Hungary, Poland, Australia, etc.). Thanks to these agreements, Engineering students can complete their studies in Spain and later start off their professional careers in some of MAXAM's international projects.
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MAXAM is a global technology company, specializing in the design, development, manufacture and application of energy materials. It structures its activity in four business units: blasting solutions for mining, quarries and civil works; cartridges and gun powders for use in hunting and recreational shooting; products and systems for the defence and security sector; and production of key primary products in nitro chemical activity.
Founded by Alfred Nobel in 1872, today MAXAM employs more than 6,500 people on five continents, in 80 industrial facilities, with subsidiaries in more than 50 countries and commercial operations in over 100 countries. At the close of the 2018 financial year (31 March 2018), the company’s turnover stood at over 1.14 billion euros.