Ercros

Ercros is a Spanish company in the chemical industry, headquartered in Barcelona. It is currently one of the leading chemical companies in Spain. Ercros is present in more than ninety countries.

==History== ===Origins and history=== Ercros was born in 1989 from the merger of the Explosivos Río Tinto (ERT) group and the public limited company Cros. Towards the end of the 1980s, a process of merger between both conglomerates had begun. One of the main architects of this operation was the KIO group , the European subsidiary of the Kuwait Investments Office , which had controlled the Cros company for years. At the time of its creation, Ercros was the main chemical company in Spain, which in turn was a holding company present in numerous sectors. Its first president was Javier Vega de Seoane.