Fusoni began life in Mexico City in 1985, moving into Europe 10 years later, and today supplies its products to markets all over the globe.   Sales and service manager Mónica Bobes is based at the company's European headquarters Llanera, in the Asturias region on the north west coast of Spain.   "Our Spanish office was opened in 1995 as part of our growth strategy and nowadays we have diversified our activities into areas such as the automotive, foundry, pastry and bakery, rotomoulding, concrete and fibreglass industries," she said.   "The main target of the company since its foundation has been to achieve success together with its customers and this close relationship has allowed us to develop, as a group, integral solutions to real problems and to maintain a continuous process of research and development.   "We are also certified to ISO standards and that certification supports our processes, equipment and procedures to guarantee consistency and reliability in our products."   The company realised there was good niche market potential for release agents in the Mexican panel manufacturing industry.   "This motivated us to develop a generic release agent for these processes and, once we entered the export market we developed other additives to increase our product portfolio," said Ms Bobes.   Fusoni says its range covers the needs of the whole panel and laminate industries, including release agents for MDF, particleboard, wet-process hardboard, doorskin production, OSB and plywood.   But it is not just in these areas that the company is active today. It also offers release agents for the paper impregnation process, wetting agents, anti-foam agents, plasticisers, anti-blocking solutions, anti-dust agents and cleaning agents.   Services offered include: technical consulting and attention by qualified personnel; development of new products according to customers' needs and the adjustment of all Fusoni products to customers' processes.   These products are all manufactured in Fusoni's factories in Spain and Mexico.   The European site supplies the Asian and European markets, while the Mexican one covers the Latin American region.   In the European market, apart from its home base of Spain, Fusoni has customers in Portugal, France, Austria, Italy, Germany, Slovakia, Romania, Poland and Turkey - in other words more or less wherever panels and related products are made.   Similarly, in Asia, markets covered include China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and India, while in Latin America, Fusoni supplies its domestic market of Mexico in addition to the US, Brazil, Argentina and Chile.   These liquid products are supplied in quantities from barrels of 200 litres to containers of 1,000 litres, or in bulk shipments.   An automated mixing system is employed, which, claims the company, ensures uniformity in each product. Where necessary, Fusoni can synthesise its own raw materials for some of its products.   The control of sludge which could block spraying equipment is another area of expertise claimed by the company. It has also removed all nonyl phenol and related harmful chemicals from its impregnation products.   An important project has also been the reduction of free formaldehyde.   "We have to be conscious that the world today is in a constant state of change and we have prepared ourselves to confront any future challenge," said Ms Bobes. "We do this by constantly updating our know-how, our team and our technologies and this has been one of the fundamental values of Fusoni, together with serious attention to environmental responsibility. We like to think that those are some of the secrets of our success."