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Mao portraits in sepia, blue sky, words flying over roofs of houses that did not exist when Mike Carter and Rafael Timoner founded their company back in 1954, a flailing guitar chords tinged with melancholy and a desire expressed by Xavier Borbolla, moving from pure simple and pragmatic, "retire in CATIS because mean you have done all my teammates. "
were the twigs of a video entitled "Catis and its people" included in an exhibition two years ago Fundació Sa Nostra organized to review the company's flagship course of the mayonnaise. The audiovisual gathered testimonies of those who made their work CATIS quickly became one of the largest jewelry companies in Spain, reaching to employ 154 people and promoting initiatives such as SEBIME, the association still encompasses a large part of an industry that refuses to disappear.
CATIS A sector that for years has been exponent, for their dedication in the production of jewelry, buttons and gifts and the spirit of "big family" that brought together workers. The spirit that takes possession of the video as it did to news that Gemma Andreu published in the "Menorca" in November 2006 during the demolition of the factory premises on Carrer Sant Sebastia.
The CATI is a history of pushing, started by Carter and Timoner and starring a cast exception, humble and abiding workers who are leaving their things if he had to go to the factory, who lived with her and had their children to nursery school and Thrust Peter Pan of action with a rudder-a protocol Carter what he did not like much, it seems, he appealed for unity as a way forward for the sector, engaging in the creation of Sebime APICESA or the Costume Institute of Technology (ITEBE .)
With them, with Satin Borbolla, Lluís Lluch, the Moll, Pons, Gelabert or Vinents, CATIS became an industry benchmark Menorca until their sale in 1999 to Josep Maria Drudis troubles began, one of them a reduction of one third of the workforce. Were Drudis false promises in order to relaunch the company and the relay by Enrique Perera in 2001 also threw more light.
were then workers who were determined to carry on with the company and received expectant Antoni Montserrat in 2003. After his death, with renewed vigor, his son Xavier Borbolla Pau and threw the rest. Investment and excitement in equal parts were not enough to combat the debt and the crisis that has swept all hope, leaving dumb who were reluctant to lose