Istobal; Cleaning up the World
When Ismael Tomás Alacreu founded ISTOBAL in the spring of 1950 he probably never imagined that he would be starting a major, successful international company.
From its humble beginnings, and after experimenting with various products in a small workshop in the Valencian town of L’Alcudia, the company now operates in 60 countries and exports to over 75 around the world, and employs more than 600 people.
The star of the company line is the automatic car wash system, produced at two assembly plants in Europe, and two subsidiaries and assembly plants in the US and Brazil.
One of the company’s largest areas of growth has been France, where sales have increased by 15% since 2011, reaching a percentage of 24% of the company’s total revenue.
Other countries where Istobal has obtained remarkable advances are Iran and Greece, and in 2021, Istobal opened a new assembly plant 80 km from Shanghai.
ISTOBAL collaborates with the Chinese company Sinopec, which now has 60 Istobal cleaning installations in its network of service stations.
Istobal USA has been cleaning up since 2009 and has its own manufacturing plant there. In early 2021, Istobal acquired Pacific Pride Carwash Company in southern California, where it never rains, in order to expand the business even more and introducing the concept of the Valencian carwash to replace the Mexican one.
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