Agramunt 1953. The birth of a leader.

In 1953, Ferran Ros Pijoan and Ramon Roca Sala founded a private trading company devoted to the purchase, sale and transformation of timber and the construction of trailers, axles, tankers and equipment for agricultural use. The new company, bearing the name Talleres Fernando Ros, was located at premises in Agramunt (Lleida) and at the outset employed three tradesmen and an apprentice. In 1956, in the presence of a notary, the trading company would become Industrias Madero Metalúrgicas Ros Roca Sociedad Anónima. From this moment onwards, the company also began to produce waste collection equipment, both hand and animal drawn. Later on, the first models of collection boxes mounted on lorries were developed.

Tàrrega 1968. Growth and consolidation

In 1968 the new Ros Roca production centre was inaugurated in Tàrrega - in facilities that would very soon have to be extended due to the level of demand, and the company became a world model in the field of items of equipment for the environment sector.
Over the years the products designed for towns and cities were improved upon, and high precision cleaning equipment also began to be manufactured. Production also continued of units devoted to special transport, such as tankers, or platforms for heavy vehicles. The arrival at Tàrrega signalled the beginning of Ros Roca's irreversible path towards leadership of its sector and would markedly accentuate its role as an exporter.

Diversification and internationalisation

During the 1970s and 80s Ros Roca committed itself to diversification. It was in this period that the Rock-Master and the Mini-Master were designed, collector lorries whose quality and usefulness would become a model for the sector in the eighties. Ros Roca also developed an improvement in the collection systems with the design, production and distribution of containers and container washers.
The service would be completed with a complete range of street cleaning equipment, consisting of street washing tankers, high pressure tankers and sweeper lorries for different surfaces The 1980s also saw the establishment of a long term collaboration with the army, to which all kinds of equipment would be supplied.
Specialisation continued in the nineties. Research was intensified, and a direct consequence of this was the design of a new collector model, the Cross, which represented an innovation in terms of its cutting edge electronic components and its advances in ergonomics and safety. The commitment to the future in terms of environmental conservation also led to the design and construction of classification, composting and waste transference plants. In the 90s Ros Roca continued its commitment to internationalisation, not only as exporters, but also as producers. The new plants in Germany (Schörling) and France (Eurovoirie) led to Ros Roca producing units outside of Spain. Expansion also took place on a national level, with the Indox transport tanker factory being acquired.