Sonae Arauco has been awarded the Digital Transformation in Business Award at the 2026 Digital Innovation Awards, an event organised by the Spanish newspaper El Norte de Castilla.
The accolade concerns Sonae Arauco’s long-term strategy to advance industrial digitalisation, with particular emphasis on its facilities in Cuéllar and Valladolid.
The company uses a platform that integrates data, AI, industrial knowledge and the expertise of its employees to manage daily operations.
According to Sonae Arauco, the technology helps teams to monitor performance, analyse deviations and identify opportunities for improvement.
The company has also implemented AI-based predictive quality models, designed to anticipate product performance during manufacturing and help teams respond quickly to process deviations.
Sonae Arauco said the digital tools contribute to its sustainability objectives by enabling more energy-efficient production and supporting the integration of various types of wood within the production process.
Sonae Arauco industrial digital transformation competence centre director Ángel García Bombín said: “This award does not recognise an isolated achievement, but rather a strategic vision of how digitalisation can support the industrial sector.
“At the heart of this journey is Sonae Arauco’s Digital Plant platform, which connects industrial equipment and brings process and production data together in a single source of reliable information.”
Employee training is regarded as a core element of the firm’s digital transformation efforts.
The company maintains that equipping teams with digital skills, in addition to established industrial knowledge, is vital for effective technology adoption.
This recognition adds to Sonae Arauco’s earlier awards for digitalisation. The company was named “Best Digital Transformation Enterprise” at the 2019 European Digital Mindset Awards and has also been acknowledged in Germany for its industrial digital transformation efforts.
