page_title: ULMA Group
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: ULMA Group / History
caption_attribution_description: Español: Presenta de ULMA en la XXXI Feria Oficial e Internacional de Muestras de Barcelona de 1963
context_page_description: The ULMA Group is a business group made up of 9 cooperatives which operate in diverse sectors through its 9 strategic business units: ULMA Greenhouses, ULMA Architectural Solutions, ULMA Maintenance Services, ULMA Conveyor Components, ULMA Embedded Solutions, ULMA Handling Systems, ULMA Construction, ULMA Packaging and ULMA Piping.
  The group currently has a presence in 81 countries and is one of the largest business groups in northern Spain. With 58 years in the market, the group is part of the Industrial Division of the Mondragon Corporation.
context_section_description: The origins of the ULMA Group date back to the early sixties and the creation of two separate cooperatives. The first was created in 1961 by six young mechanics following several meetings with José María Arizmendiarrieta, the local priest in Mondragón (Gipuzkoa) and the driving force behind what is today known as Mondragon. They decided to set up a cooperative called ULMA S.C.I. to provide ancillary services to the chocolate industry and later on entered the construction sector. At the same time and in the same region, four workers from the Forjas de Zubillaga (Zubillaga Forge) company decided to acquire a locksmith and accessories workshop. 
  Both companies grew and established close ties during the late seventies and eighties and finally created the actual group in 1987 with the addition of Oinakar, a third cooperative that sold forklift trucks. The group was first named Oñalan and it's been called ULMA Group since 1989. 
  In 1993, as a result of the decision to have its own cooperative group, ULMA decided not to take part in the organisational restructuring proposed by the Mondragon Cooperative Corporation (MCC). In 2002, however, its members approved the group joining the Industrial Division of Mondragon, of which it still forms a part.
caption: XXXI International Fair of Barcelona,1963
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