COMPANY NEWS

Thanks to the project of the BETWEEN Women Network, which is a network of female empowerment to achieve gender equality, BETWEEN has regained the “Award for the best Business Practice” from the Master of Industrial Engineers of Catalonia.

The CEO of BETWEEN, Pau Brut and the People Director, Carla Antúnez will collect the award on behalf of all those who are part of the daily treball of this highly recognized project.

At BETWEEN we continue to work hard to achieve equity within our organization.

On November 11, Between was awarded the first prize of the STEM AWARD of the STEM WOMEN, recognizing the work of women’s empowerment and involvement in favor of the role of women in the business world and specifically in the ICT sector.

For the STEM AWARDS Between presented the projects of the “Between Women Network”, a monthly newsletter that we created with information for Betweeners, and “Looking for Siri”, a podcast where several women from the ICT sector were interviewed and they were It gave visibility and recognition.

The president of the Catalan Technology Society, Nuria Salán, has been in charge of awarding this award to the entire team that has made the two projects possible, led by Eli Abad, the company’s director.

To see the complete presentation of the projects click on the image

BETWEEN continues to grow, increasing its clients and therefore its workforce. For this reason, in Madrid they have opened new offices in a new and modern space. Located in the Nuevo Ministerios area on Calle de Don Quijote 1.

The new facilities have a space of 250 m2, 4 meeting rooms and different common areas to make the working day more enjoyable. The warehouse has been adapted to have a 100% open space, with a unique design proposal where wood and plants predominate, creating a more comfortable environment for employees and customers.

“This year is very important BETWEEN Madrid, we come from a very high growth in 2021 practically doubling size and to continue in this line they have wanted to promote two aspects. The first, having a new space where we can share more time with our employees and customers in a more informal way. And as a second, preparing facilities designed for the flexibility of the employee and the possibility of sharing space with other brands in the group”, commented Joan Ramoneda, CSO of BETWEEN.

Responding to the new needs demanded by the sector implies adapting, which is why BETWEEN has entered a stage of renovation of some of its offices. With the one in Madrid and its headquarters in Barcelona, there are already 2 new facilities that offer improvements for both its customers and employees.

“Our objective for 2022 is to double the team in Madrid, exceeding 100 employees, generating opportunities for technological talent and focusing efforts on offering the best possible professional career in our organization,” concluded Joan Ramoneda.

The new offices reinforce BETWEEN’s line of growth in the country’s capital, with future expansion plans.

According to this year’s Computing Tech Leaders Ranking, BETWEEN is one of the 150 best companies in the sector. BETWEEN occupies position #115 thanks to its growth and evolution in the technological world.

After the pandemic, companies in the Tech sector marked a before and after in the market, generating solutions for different areas of activity, seeking improvements and adaptations for a more digitized environment. Like every year, Computing has published its new edition of the 2022 Leaders Ranking highlighting the best Tech companies of the moment.

The first 3 places have been taken by telecommunications with an increase in its growth of almost 2.7% according to Computing. In first place is Telefónica Spain, second Orange and third Vodafone.

For its part, BETWEEN closed the year with €32.6 million and increased its workforce by more than 200 people, opening 2 new offices nationwide and expanding its client portfolio with 100 more partners. All this and more is what has led to the #115 position in this year’s ranking.

BETWEEN’s forecast for this year 2022 continues to be positive, seeking a growth of 23% and hopefully remaining in the Ranking as the Leading Tech Company 2022.

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BETWEEN opens offices in 22@, the knowledge district with the greatest technological projection in Barcelona. The new headquarters are located in an innovative building, offering unique and modern spaces. The building, allocating 800 m2 of surface area for BETWEEN and distributed over two floors, is located at number 112 Calle Ávila. It has various common areas and terraces with spectacular views of the city.

“We are very pleased with this change. Its strategic location and the characteristics of the building contribute to a better positioning and a very good experience for our workers. In addition, it has spaces prepared to hold events with clients. The feedback from the betweeners who have already enjoyed the offices is very positive.” explained Pau Guarro, CEO of BETWEEN. 

The new corporate headquarters adapts to the company’s hybrid way of teleworking, with non-fixed workplaces for employees, enabling the option of reserving spaces and rooms to offer the better experience for the employee who comes to the offices. Similarly, the new offices have all the updated health protocols and measures. This new office location is the ideal place for the ICT sector, surrounded by an entrepreneurial and technological ecosystem, thus turning it into a digital hub. 

“This movement gives us energy to meet the growth challenges planned for this year, with the planned incorporation of 250 consultants to help our clients achieve their goals” concluded Pau Guarro. 

BETWEEN will officially open its offices in the coming days and thus begin a new stage of growth for the company.

At BETWEEN we have always supported gender equality and we have tried to provide the same opportunities for everyone, based exclusively on talent. It has been like this since our inception and this year has been key given the significant female presence in all teams. Of the 6 national headquarters that make up BETWEEN, 4 are led and 100% made up of women. Female leadership has been essential in this stage of expansion and development for us.

“It is a pleasure to have high-performance teams that are leading different business units with excellent results. We see how female talent demonstrates its high potential and meets the ambitious growth targets that we have set ”, says Pau Guarro, General Director of BETWEEN.

At BETWEEN equality is part of the company’s values, firmly believing that diversity is the key to innovation and adaptation to an environment as volatile as we currently find ourselves. Since 2018, it has had a renewed Equality and Diversity Plan that aims to improve the work environment for all people and with which we measure and monitor all equality indicators.

“Since the implementation of the equality plan, we have developed many and different measures to promote the hiring of female talent, and most importantly, we have generated great awareness throughout the easily measurable company. In 2018 we had 21% women on the workforce and currently we are at 24.6% reaching the target of 24% which is the average in the sector ”, says Esther Martínez, Chief People Officer and member of the Management Team of BETWEEN.

Similarly, this year we have taken up the Between Women Network, an initiative to empower all the women of BETWEEEN by helping them boost their professional careers and, at the same time, help us as a company achieve effective gender equality, especially in positions of responsibility and salaries. It is an initiative that among its elements, is made up of webinars with specialists on topics such as Female Visibility, Negotiation or on Self-confidence. Hand in hand with webinars, we create a newsletter whose ultimate goal is to empower the women in our staff with content and recommendations for books or videos with related topics.

BETWEEN Technology renews its ISO 9001 certificate, which guarantees the quality of its services, and promotes the effectiveness of a quality management system, based on continuous improvement. Likewise, it renews ISO14001, which reinforces their commitment to the environment.

In addition, in 2020, BETWEEN obtained ISO 27001, which is the international standard that allows the assurance, confidentiality and integrity of data, gaining one more guarantee for its clients.

This new ISO 27001 standard for Information Security Management Systems allows the assessment of risk and the application of controls necessary to eliminate them. BETWEEN’s internal IT team, since the beginning of the pandemic, has had to rethink all configurations and new ways of working, such as telecommuting and implementing security tools in its infrastructure.

Hand in hand with the new certification, tools such as the Azure cloud and Intune (Configuration Manager) have allowed BETWEEN to continue offering the best service to its customers, maintaining security levels and reducing action times. For example, Intune manages to remotely format computers by reducing processes that used to take 3 days to 2-3 hours.

Other security improvements have been carried out in BETWEEN, reinforcing the company’s commitment to protect the information of the data of its clients and its internal team.

At the end of March BETWEEN decided to bet on offering leadership training to its lead teams and company directors. BETWEEN has always stressed the importance of people within a company and knows that good management of these is vital for business success.

The objective of BEYOURBEST’s Leadership Reps program is to develop leaders prepared to generate relational value in their teams and in the organization. The human part that makes up a team is so important of the success or not of the project.

Noemi Freixes is the professional who has been teaching the training throughout the months of March and April. Noemi Freixes, an expert in Change Management, Coach and Team Trainer, has been working with the BETWEEN management team since 2019 on different topics. On this occasion, it was decided to bet on this program and strengthen the company’s global leadership

The program consists of 4 modules:

• One-to-one leadership: in which the relationship with each of the members will be analyzed to strengthen or restore it.
• Team leadership: you will learn to identify the main dysfunctions that occur in a team to manage or avoid them.
• Global vision: the relational map with other departments and / or business areas will be drawn.
• Purpose and vision: you will reflect on the purpose as a leader and legacy that you want to leave in the team.

We are sure that this program will strengthen BETWEEN’s leadership to continue achieving success thanks to the teamwork of all its members.

At BETWEEN we are always in constant search of improvements for our clients. For this reason, we have signed a collaboration agreement with INGroup to create synergies and help companies integrate 4.0 technologies into their production processes.

INGroup is a company specialized in the development of technological solutions 4.0, highlighting 3D Printing, Artificial Intelligence and the IoT, among others. Altogether, it is intended to provide a comprehensive service regarding new technologies.

“In today’s business world it is key to design and provide valuable technological solutions to companies through new technologies. Technology is a facilitator within a company and a complement to the functions that people perform“, explained Pau Guarro, General Director at BETWEEN.

For his part, Joan Folguera, founder and CEO of INGroup added, “There are many companies that have already decided to bet on new technologies and integrate them into their value chains, becoming an essential part of their production processes, whether in design departments. , technical offices, R&D, but we are aware that there is still a long way to go and the agreement with BETWEEN is a great step on this path “.

We are sure that with this synergy we will be able to offer innovative solutions for companies in many sectors, even for our current clients.

In recent years we have learned the importance and advantages of 3D printing. But recently, we have come to know an area of ​​3D printing that is little known but essential to get perfect and useful parts, post-processing

Enric Sirera, B.U Manager from Abrast, is dedicated to helping additive manufacturing companies by providing post-processing and surface finishing solutions to maximize the value of their products. He joined the ABRAST Project about a year and a half ago, and since then, they have been working to capitalize on the more than 30 years of experience of the CONIEX Group and its trusted partners in this field.

The collaboration between BETWEEN and the CONIEX Group has been very active for years, especially in the field of design and industrialization of some of the solutions for Abrast. Specifically, in the field of additive manufacturing, this relationship is intensified when we at BETWEEN adopt MJF (Multi Jet Fusion) technology for partners like HP. In this way, we intend to expand our value proposition to our clients.

In our interview, Enric, explains what Abrast is and what they do.

(You can follow the answers and interview in the following videos)

Why bet on post-process solutions and surface finishes for 3D parts?

Unfortunately, most of these technologies produce parts and components that cannot be placed on the market “as is” without first being properly treated and finished.

For this same reason, different post-processing techniques are used for 3D printed parts, such as those used at Abrast:

“It should be noted that without one or more post-processing operations, an additively manufactured part has a high probability of being useless, as simple as that“, Enric explains. “ABRAST’s holistic approach to the different alternatives and post-process possibilities provides our clients with the possibility of having the best type of finish at all times, considering the economic aspects associated with each process. Also, and very especially within in the field of additive manufacturing, offering possibilities that customers do not know. This is an aspect that we are seeing every day, for example in blasting and vibration processes, whose careful selection of abrasives and / or combination of processes, provides results that the client did not even know that they were possible! “.

The great added value of Abrast is its holistic approach. The ability to have a global and integral vision of prost-processing allows them to be differentiated, with a unique value proposition in the market.

What is the collaboration with BETWEEN?

Finally, we did not want to end the interview without knowing Enric’s opinion on the evolution and trends in the world of 3D printing after the pandemic and the situation in which we find ourselves.

The collaboration between BETWEEN and Abrast is aimed at contributing and improving post-processing processes, generating improvement solutions in the world of 3D printing.

We continue with changes in the internal Committees, in our latest news we share information about the new Permanent Committee on Risks and Compliances, and we explain some of its objectives.

On this occasion we will talk about the creation of the Permanent Commission on CSR and Equality that will support the Appointment, Remuneration and CSR Committee.

“The mission of our commission is to make BETWEEN a better and socially responsible place. We see that commitments such as the LGD are fulfilled, that we are being efficient in environmental matters, that there is equal parity, among other issues ”, comment Sara Alberti, spokesperson for the commission.

Among the works that have been carried out with the help of the commission and other internal departments we can highlight:

* The Equality Plan: created to support equal treatment and opportunities between women and men, and to eliminate discrimination based on gender.

* The Inclusive Communication Guide: to support communication free of stereotypes and prejudices, being respectful of all groups.

* Development of eco-friendly products : as part of the end-of-the-year gift, reusable water bottles made of sustainable materials were developed.

“ It is continuous work, but at the same time very rewarding. For example, we want to share with you that this year we closed August with 25.4% of women on the workforce, unlike last year we had 22%. It is an increase that makes us proud, since We are noticing that our work to achieve this equality is bearing fruit ”, concluded Sara.

This year has been a year of change, both for the world in general, and for the business community. For BETWEEN it has not been the exception and one of its main changes has been internal, within its organization.

In order to promote good practices and respect the corporate governance code, it has been decided to modify the old committees and adapt them to the new two committees.

The new committees are:

• Finance, Audit and Compliance Comittee
• Appointments, Remunerations and RSC Comittee

This, in turn, has transformed our old CSR and Equality and Risks and Compliances committees into Permanent Committees that will report and support the Committee to which they respectively belong.

“The idea is that certain directors focus on these issues to study them in depth and then present their recommendations to the rest of the Board”, explained Eli Abad, Founding Partner.

To elaborate a little more on the objectives of the new committees, we will start by talking about the new Permanent Risk and Compliance Committee, of which Elisa de Julian, Talent Acquisition Lead of BETWEEN, is spokesperson.

The new committee reports directly to the Finance, Audit and Compliance Committee. Its purpose is to advise on this matter and to mitigate possible risks both at a strategic, legal, financial and operational level that BETWEEN faces, either due to actions in the environment in which it operates (external actions) or actions of the betweeners (internal actions).

“Among our objectives is to advise the Finance, Audit and Compliance Committee, for making strategic and successful long-term decisions, having more and better evaluation criteria. Making recommendations, diagnoses and proposals for change“, concluded Elisa of Julian.