TECAM: 15 YEARS OF GROWTH

The 2020 Tank Storage Magazine Environmental Performance Award winner looks back IN THE midst of the pandemic we are all living through, advanced environmental technology solutions company Tecam is celebrating 15 years in business. In August 2005 Borja Maestro founded Tecam Soluciones Medioambientales in Barcelona, Spain, as an environmental technology distribution company. That small start-up soon evolved to become Tecam Group, which began manufacturing environmental technology to eliminate polluting emissions from the industry. The path to now was not always easy. Bernat Sala (today’s Tecam CEO) joined the company in 2007 as sales director and shareholder to lead the company’s internationalisation and expansion. From that point onwards, Tecam experienced much stronger growth in both project volume and personnel. Opening offices in Moscow and in Santiago was quite challenging in 2013 and 2014, respectively. It was an important decision to be able to provide a local service to key markets such as the Russian and the Latin American ones In 2014 Tecam’s board of directors decided to bet heavily on the manufacturing of a new technology: waste incineration equipment for...