MAXAM
José Fernando Sánchez-Junco, Chairman & CEO of MAXAM, new patron of the Mining and Industry Museum of Asturias (MUMI)
2017.05.17
MAXAM Foundation - Press room - News - José Fernando Sánchez-Junco, Chairman & CEO of MAXAM, new patron of the Mining and Industry Museum of Asturias (MUMI)
MAXAM has been working alongside the MUMI since 1997
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.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.
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.
"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.
MAXAM Foundation– www.maxamfoundation.net
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.
MAXAM is an industrial and services group which carries out its activity on a global level, developing, manufacturing and marketing blasting solutions for mining, quarries and infrastructure; cartridges and powder for recreational hunting and products and services for the defence sector. It also provides critical raw materials for nitro-chemical activities, such as energetic nitrocellulose and ammonium nitrate, both for internal use by MAXAM and for sale to external third parties.
MAXAM, founded by Alfred Nobel in 1872, ended financial year 2015 with turnover amounting to 1.115 billion euros. Its activity covers leading mining areas all around the world, with manufacture facilities in more than 45 countries and sales in over 100 countries on all five continents, and over 6500 employees.
For further details:
Lucas Ferreira
MAXAM
Communication Director
91 722 01 00
lferreira@maxam.net
Louis Trollope
MAXAM
Communications Officer
91 722 01 00
ltrollope@maxam.net
