Our founder, Francisco R. Artal Tormo, set up the first warehouse on Calle de los Toneleros in Valencia, and subsequently his organic fertilizer factory on the outskirts of the city. Following in his footsteps, his son Francisco Artal Villanueva expanded and modernised the factory, also producing compound and organomineral fertilizers.
In 1970, the founder’s grandson, Francisco R. Artal Such, began manufacturing liquid fertilizers, making Artal the first liquid fertilizer manufacturer in Spain.
In 1986, he built the current facilities at the Fuente del Jarro Industrial Estate in Paterna (Valencia), where the fourth generation of the Artal family — Francisco and Juan Artal Huerta — continues the work begun by their great-grandfather, innovating and evolving to meet the current needs of the sector and driving the international expansion of Artal products that began in the 1990s, positioning ARTAL Smart Agriculture as a leading biotechnology company in the agri-sector.
Only a company that has known how to read the times of each generation it has lived through can reach its centenary. This means meeting, over time, the EXPECTATIONS that our customers have placed in us and having become the preferred partner of many farmers.
Many years and many personal stories shape Artal.