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Power play
A short journey across Zaragoza brings us to Carod, a company which originally focused on powered pumps for agriculture and fire protection, but now delivers a range of generator sets, high-pressure washers and pneumatic compressors.
“The original plant was about 11km from here, but in 2011 we purchased this land and built this new headquarters,” explains Mohamed Mohinah, export manager.
He adds that while such parts as the steel genset closures are currently delivered by suppliers, there are plans to extend the facility and produce those in-house. “Covid was hard on our suppliers and lead times grew
Carod originally focused on powered pumps for agriculture and fire protection, but now delivers a range of generator sets, high-pressure washers and pneumatic compressors.
to nearly one year. So we’ll setup our own production to avoid any repeat of that.”
Since the completion of the new factory, Carod has been steadily ramping up the power output of its generators. “We’ve gone from about 250kVA to 800kVA,” says Mohinah. “We’ve got upcoming projects which will include our first 1MW gen set.” He adds that the production split at Carod is about 60% gensets, with all other products making up the remaining 40%.
Power for the generators comes from a range of suppliers, including Deutz, Volvo Penta, FPT, Honda and Kohler. In addition to these usual suspects is MWM International, part of the Navistar Group, which has its headquarters in Sao Paulo, Brazil. “MWM engines are all mechanical, no computers. That makes them very reliable, very rugged.”
Around the assembly hall, shelving units house hundreds of boxed engines. Mohinah says that they have more than $6 million in engine inventory. “It’s another result of Covid. We hold engines so we can quickly fulfil customer orders. If the engines in stock, I can fulfil a gen set order in about four to six weeks.” Inventory includes Stage 2, 3 and 5 engines with outputs up to 500 kVA.
Carod originally focused on powered pumps for agriculture and fire protection, but now delivers a range of generator sets, high-pressure washers and pneumatic compressors.
