Letter from the CEO

I started my career at STAC more than 20 years ago. At that time I had studied engineering, but I was not an engineer. I was highly motivated but lacked experience of production processes, materials and many other aspects.

It was also the early years of the company, so I was largely self-taught, learning as I went along in areas I hadn’t explored before. And that’s how it is in the beginning: hard, but enriching.

You’re probably wondering… Why am I telling you all this?
Well, because during all this time, the STAC team has also implemented countless processes, it has grown in both capacity and complexity… but the most valuable thing has been what you can’t see: the accumulated knowledge.

To get this far, we have made many, many mistakes. And yes, we have faced many challenges. But with determination and perseverance, we have managed to move forward and learn.

Today, at STAC Industry, we begin a new phase by sharing some of our experiences with you. In a series of articles, we will tell you about situations that have taught us valuable lessons.

For example, I will share with you

• How, in my early days, I left my watch as a deposit for hiring a mould through an unreliable intermediary. (Yes, two mistakes in the same experience).
• When I met Mr. Antonio, an expert with more than 40 years of experience in aluminium moulding, and the lesson he taught me. It all boils down to one sentence.
• The times when I switched to a supplier because of the price and then had to go back to them because of the quality of the service.

We hope you will join us on this journey. We want to share what we have learnt and, at the same time, continue to learn with you.

For now, I leave you with one thought for today:

An engineer is someone who has the ingenuity to solve a problem or find a solution to a need. It has more to do with that than with studies.

Thank you for being part of our story.