The digitisation of subsoilers

Josep Maria Pradas founded JYMPA 1971 S.L. from a small metal workshop in Castellserà (Lleida, Spain), together with his wife Maria Lluïsa Gené. At first it was dedicated to repairs and orders for metal carpentry, grilles, ... demanded by local customers, but it was very clear from the beginning that it had to specialise in the manufacture of agricultural machinery and go beyond the limits of the village.

The first forklift truck for fruit chambers is developed and patented, the result of observing the needs of the farmers with whom Josep Maria Pradas had direct contact. Almost all of these installations in Catalonia, Aragon and the north of the Valencian Community are equipped, and they are manufactured until the beginning of the 1980s, when forklift trucks for transporting goods (popularly known as "bulls") appear.

The first JYMPA stonecutters are developed and patented in response to the need to collect stones from the fields at a time of land consolidation. The first demonstrations are carried out in Sástago (Zaragoza, Spain). These stonecutters are still part of our product range in their latest versions.

Como complemento a las despedregadoras, se desarollan y fabrican los primeros subsoladores JYMPA. Más adelante, los subsoladores se han convertido en las principales máquinas para la preparación del suelo del catálogo de JYMPA.

First trips abroad, to Poland and Romania.

The growth of the company meant that the workshop located in the centre of the village of Castellserà became too small, and it was decided to move the offices and production machinery to new, spacious premises on the outskirts of the town.

Josep Maria Pradas travels to the Mexican state of Chiapas together with an operator to start up the first de-stoner units ordered by the Mexican government and carry out demonstrations in front of a large number of farmers and representatives of the government and banks.

For more than 3 decades JYMPA has maintained its commercial presence in Mexico and has expanded throughout the Latin American market: Honduras, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Chile, Uruguay... At the same time it also exports machinery to countries of the EEC / European Union and Eastern Europe. In 2011 it starts manufacturing directly in Mexico to consolidate its position in the American continent.

Association to AGRAGEX (Spanish Association of Manufacturers-Exporters of Agricultural Machinery).

Association to FEMAC (Association of Agricultural Machinery Exporting Manufacturers of Catalonia).

The ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems certificate is recognised worldwide and guarantees the quality and efficiency of our products and services, as well as helping us to monitor and improve our performance.

Acquisition of the agricultural machinery manufacturing and marketing company Tractomotor. With this move JYMPA expands its range of products for soil preparation, incorporating this brand's highly reputed cultivators and disc harrows.

Collaboration with a Mexican metallurgical company to manufacture JYMPA agricultural machinery directly in Mexico and thus consolidate the position in Central America.

Creation of the company Comercializadora Agrícola Pradas S.A. de C.V. (CAP), to market JYMPA agricultural machinery and other brands in the Mexican market and begin expansion into the United States and Latin America.

First prize for technological innovation in agricultural machinery at the Sant Miquel trade fair (Lleida, Spain) for the presentation of the Optimax 3 multifunction combined equipment, consisting of a subsoiler, a quick harrow and a tine roller.