The association of business men of the cutling industry (APRECU) , is associated with not lucraritve propouses, it was stablished 25 years ago.

The head office is located in the Industrial Polygon of Campollano C/B,11 Alabacete , we count with permanent perssonnel ( excecutive secretary and lawyer) as as an associative life of great inetensitity considered one of the most dynamic associations in the province.

The association was formed for managment, defense and promotionof professional matters, the association had the following duties and faculties.

- Defense of peculiar interests determined by the professional activity of associated members.
- Execute with the court, public and syndical organizations the action needed procced accroding to the law.
- Participate in activities and communitary tasks, in the political, economical and social life as well.
- Adquire and process properties which match obligations with legal norms.
- Organize activities of assitencial matter and the other matters like cultural formative benefit of the members.
- Flaunt the representation of its members with public organiztions in everything that has to do with member matters.
- Negotiate, agree and suscribe agreements in fornt of all kind of public and private organizations, which have to do with matters of its members in different in areas like industrial, economic and tributary,laboral and on the other hand one related in direct or indirect way with the represented activity.
- Stablish legal assesment serivces, administrative ,polices, finaciation etc, and in general any matter which could be considered of interest for its members.
- Work on market research , cost as well as any matters of ineterest of its members, giving them facilities to get information which they considered important even this issues cab be conducted by the publication of surveys and magazinnes.
- Establish economical rewards and any sort of help to estimulate and compensate any activity which could be suitable in order to have a better fullfillment of the association matters.

Distictions and Activities

The association has been distinguished with:

- Plate regonizament for the contribution to the regional industrial development and the matenaince of traditions given by the Junta de Comunidades de Castilla de la Mancha (Association of communities in Castilla de la Mancha), “Villarrobledo 31-05-99”.
- Award “Cadena Ser Destacados 99” for business activities (December 99).
- Award for the unstopable labor in defense of industry and the cutlers sector of Albacete, otorged by ADECA (March, 2000).
- The association has prmoted 21 regional contests of artistry in pocket knives through all the country.
- On february 27th a monument to “the cultler” was inagurated by the president of Junta de comunidades de Castilla de la Mancha D. Josè Bono.
- On february 14th 2000 was formed the foundation for the cutling industry FUDECU.
- On april 2000, the formative activity of the cutling school began and it was inagurated on February 24th of this year.
- APRECU support regional agreement for employment.
- Preserves a good relationship with the institute of the regional development thorugh the cutling laboratory.

MANAGMENT STAFF

The organization is estructure by the following members:

- PRESIDENT: Juan Andrés Barbero García
- VICEPRESIDENT: Roberto Sáez Igualada
- SECRETARY: José Javier Díaz López
- TRESURER: Francisco Cifuentes García