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TALLERES BLANCHADELL S.L.

aluminium boatbuilder Vinaròs, Castelló, Spain

Talleres Blanchadell S.L. is a family-run shipyard and marine engineering workshop in Vinaròs, Spain, with roots as a blacksmith's forge dating back to at least 1860. The company builds aluminium workboats — notably aquaculture and port-service catamarans, trawlers and auxiliary launches — and also manufactures, installs and repairs naval machinery such as fishing winches, shaft lines, propellers, rudders, manoeuvring thrusters, tanks and hydraulic systems. It runs its own technical office for vessel design and has delivered boats to Spanish and Algerian customers, exhibiting at aquaculture and fishing fairs in Spain and Algeria.

Talleres Blanchadell S.L.

Talleres Blanchadell is a Vinaròs-based shipyard and naval mechanics workshop now in its sixth family generation, tracing its origins to a blacksmith's forge active by at least 1860 that made irrigation waterwheels, farm implements and fittings for the wooden sailing craft built in the town. From the 1920s it specialised in semi-diesel and later diesel marine engine repair, and at the start of the 2000s it moved into aluminium boatbuilding, which is now a core activity alongside the manufacture and installation of fishing and propulsion machinery. The company reports more than 160 years in the sector and exports nationally and internationally, supported by the ICEX Next programme with European FEDER co-financing.

Services

  • Design and construction of aluminium vessels, including catamarans, trawlers and planing monohulls
  • Ship repair and refit work
  • In-house naval technical office (2D/3D computer design)
  • Manufacture of fishing machinery: winches and deck equipment for trawl, purse seine and other fishing methods
  • Propulsion equipment: shaft lines, propellers and rudders
  • Manoeuvring thrusters — exclusive manufacture and repair
  • Hydraulic systems: design, installation and maintenance
  • Fabrication and installation of tanks and other onboard mechanical equipment
  • Conversions, reforms and system installations

Facilities

  • Over 2,000 m² across two workshops, roughly 1 km from the port of Vinaròs
  • First building (2000): mechanical workshop and construction of vessels up to 12 m LOA
  • Second building (2004): shipyard for larger vessels
  • Machine tools including a Travis T-2680 2,000 mm universal parallel lathe, Fronius TIG MagicWave 230i welding equipment and a Puska screw compressor with dryer
  • 33 kW rooftop solar installation with grid feed-in and surplus compensation
  • Welders qualified and approved by classification society Bureau Veritas

Vessel Types

  • Aluminium aquaculture catamarans (e.g. Ismael, Rabah I, Green Fish II, Lala Halima, Tifra Fish, Albaseis)
  • Port and marine works catamarans, including the Ambaone for Amarradores Barcelona and a craft for oily-liquid spill recovery
  • Aluminium trawlers and fishing vessels
  • Auxiliary launches, including boats for a bluefin tuna fattening farm
  • Planing monohull workboats

Location

  • Carrer del Puig 18, 12500 Vinaròs, Castellón, Spain
  • Telephone +34 964 40 28 51; [email protected]
  • Member of the acuiplus aquaculture cluster; exhibitor at SIPA (Oran, Algeria) and Aquafuture (Silleda, Galicia)