The shipyard expands its specialized industrial activity and create new jobs

Varador 2000 incorporates a new workshop specialized in nautical upholstery in its repair & refit facilities in the port of Arenys de Mar. The new company that has established its industrial activity in the Varador 2000 shipyard is Nautical Upholstery, which has a professional and experienced team. Nautical Upholstery thus joins the dozen companies that were already developing their activities in the Arenys shipyard.

Nautical Upholstery is a specialized interior and exterior nautical upholstery company that performs all types of custom interior habitability projects and exterior transformation projects. Its activity on interior surfaces stands out, especially on furniture, floors and ceilings of any type of boat. On exterior surfaces, stand out his projects for solariums and other elements such as awnings and covers. Unlike other similar companies, Nautical Upholstery develops all its projects in the Varador 2000 shipyard, located at the foot of the technical mooring. This particularity allows the company to optimize the quality of your work and projects, adapt them to the real needs of your clients, and achieve excellent results at very competitive prices.

The workshops located in the technical area of Varador 2000 have turned the shipyard into a true hub of companies capable of providing a comprehensive technical service to all types of sailing and motor boats, preferably with lengths between 20 and 50 meters. These specialized workshops consolidate and add value to the shipyard, which does not cease to enter into new agreements to expand its service offering and continue on the path set out years ago with the industrial project called FULL SERVICYACHTS IN HOUSE 360.

Job creation in difficult times

Facing the adversity and uncertainty that the Coronavirus pandemic has caused in the nautical sector, Varador 2000 has reacted by expanding spaces, creating new specialized workshops and generating new employment. During the first eight months of 2020, the company has grown with new industrial activities and has created around twenty new jobs, in addition to the hundred professional technicians who were already carrying out their activity in a regular way in this technical area. Varador 2000 has also expanded and reorganized the docking area and has built a new warehouse to shelter the new industrial workshops and its own technical units in its facilities.

Strategic position in the Mediterranean

Varador 2000 is the benchmark shipyard on the north coast of Barcelona specialized in lengths from 20 to 50 meters. Its Arenys de Mar repair & refit technical base is located in a strategic position on the Mediterranean coast, halfway between Barcelona and the Costa Brava. It is located 35 kilometers from the capital and has good communication systems: two international airports, high-frequency rail transport and, of course, road link via motorway.

Currently Varador 2000 offers its clients a wide range of technical services with industrial workshops specialized in different areas of nautical such as boilermaking, carpentry, joinery, painting, electronics, electricity, hydraulics, motors, interior and exterior upholstery and sails, as well as services of hardware, composite laminates, wintering and boarding, among others. Varador 2000 also offers its clients its exclusive services, Tender Clinic specific for superyacht tender, and Teak Clinic for repair and maintenance of teak surfaces for superyachts.

These facilities, pioneers in the Catalan nautical sector, have been operating non-stop for more than 35 years. The Varador 2000 repair & refit technical area has the following approvals: ISO 9001 quality management, ISO 14001 environmental management and ISO 45001 occupational prevention (occupational health and safety management).