I. Origins linked to hydroelectric production
The company Elaborados Metálicos, Sociedad Anónima (Emesa) was constituted before a notary in A Coruña on the 31st of March, 1958. Its object was to obtain steels in electric furnaces; rolled aluminium bars and their alloys to obtain transformed aluminium products; the production and transformation of special steels and metal alloys in general, metal fabrication, forging, wire drawing and pressing of metals and alloys.
The president of the first board of directors was Luciano Yordi de Carricarte, the main promoter of the project. The rest of the board consisted of Javier Moreno Lacasa, secretary, and the members of the board, Demetrio Salorio Suárez, Rogelio Fernández González, Jacinto Amigo Lera and Antonio Yordi de Carricarte.
One of the keys to making the project possible was Rogelio Fernández González’s transfer to the newborn company of the authorisation granted in his name by the Ministry of Industry for the installation of a mill train and electric furnace. This equipment, initially authorized for the province of Ourense, would finally be set up in Grela, in A Coruña. Emesa began business.