Asociación Buxa

Comezo da descontaminación dos solos (Fotografía de Luis A. Rico Varela, 2010)

By the end of 1931 the Catalan company Sociedad Anónima Cros inaugurated in El Burgo (surroundings of Coruña) a factory to produce fertilizers commonly used in Galicia since early the 20th century. Raw materials were pyrites from Huelva and natural phosphates from Casablanca (Morocco) and Sfax (Tunisia). By 1935 the company employed one hundred workers and she expanded the range of products manufacturing lime sulphate.

In 1960 the production directed to complex and granulated fertilizers, besides manufacturing sulphuric acid and other types of acids for the canning industry, mainly Copiba and Pebsa. The installations stop working in the decade of 1980 and already in the year 1989 Sociedad Anónima Cros merged with Unión Explosivos Río Tinto to create Ercros, S.A., and the old installations of El Burgo were abandoned.

In the decade of 1990 and beginnings of the one of the 2000 many of the installations of Cros –warehouses, metallic structures and even the brick chimney– were demolished and the greater part of the area (some 125.000 m2) urbanized. Households and a shopping centre were built, besides a walk by the river bank and a wide green area.

Last autumn 2010 they start decontaminating the soil and demolishing the walls between the structural elements of the buildings, that are going to be consolidated and recovered to house a cultural centre.

Consolidación estrutural (Fotografía de Luis A. Rico Varela, 2011)

Fábrica de tecidos do Seixo (M. Lara, 2010)

They are already one hundred eighty-one catalogue cards which we have entered into the inventory of our industrial heritage, references ranging from the oldest salt mines up to the most modern power plants, passing through mines, tanneries, textile mills, bridges, shipyards, lime kilns, brick and tiles factories, or mills (river, sea or wind powered). In short, any facility connected with the wide field of industrial activity. It is very important the work other associations do and which contributions also help us to extend and complete this inventory.

Plataforma da báscula das caleiras de Moeche (Manuel Lara, 2011)

Thanks a lot to Román Correa, who reported us the proper limits of the parishes of San Andrés de Cedeira and San Vicente de Trasmañó, within Redondela’s municipal boundaries. We have already repaired our mistakes in the relevant files of the Galicia’s industrial heritage files. Thanks again for your co-operation.

Cerámica "El Castelo", Monforte de Lemos (Manuel Lara, 2009)

The City Council of Naron tiles again and consolidates the protoindustrial complex of the mill of Xuvia; the City Council of Vigo decides to protect the rests of the Panificadora; the Department of Culture of the Xunta de Galicia protects the last shipwrights’ shipyard in the Pontevedra’s Estuary; we, stakeholders from the whole Spain, join in Talavera de la Reina to launch the state network of industrial tourism: something moves in the valorisation of the industrial heritage…

Central hidroeléctrica del Pindo, Ézaro, Dumbría (Manuel Lara, 2009)

Our library enhances with the splendid work developed by professors Luis Alonso, Elvira Lindoso and Margarita Vilar regarding the spa industry in Galicia, published by Galaxia

Xosé Luis Sobrado sent us the beautiful book “Paper Mills in the O Carballiño Country” that the Centre for Studies Chamoso Lamas just published and that you can find in the bookshops. This is to thank him and to give them –as usual– our support to defend and disseminate our culture.

Fábrica de tecidos do Seixo (M. Lara, 2010)

With this newcomer to our “Inventory”, I enjoyed of the invaluable collaboration of the professor doctor Bernardo Máiz-Vázquez, fellow pupil in the Institute of Ferrol.

Luar en Caneliñas (M. Lara, 2011)

Already we have incorporated to the “Inventory” the three Galician whaling factories, Caneliñas, Cangas and Morás, the last ones that were active in Europe