The moon that a gun cooperative is made up of 255 companies working in different fields.

Most families in this small town of 20,000 people make their living from the cooperative.

An employment is just over 9% in the region.

The Spanish National Average is double that.

Corporate headquarters look down over the town.

General Secretary Arancha Leskoyean coordinates the finances.

The parts of the cooperative which are faring well support those which are struggling.

We can't deny that the crisis is affecting our business, but there are differences between

us and other companies that will help us emerge from the crisis successfully.

On the whole, we're still growing.

We've been able to maintain worker levels by making the necessary adjustments.

Over the past 50 years, the Montragón Cooperative has learned how to master different crises.

The Montragón Cooperative owns companies with a global reputation.

A few kilometers downriver, the Downabout Group makes machine tools for customers like Siemens

and General Electric.

Business is good at the moment, despite the poor economic situation in Spain.

You prepare for something like this.

You try to become more international so you don't rely on individual markets.

You look for strategic areas that are less affected by the crisis and develop technologies

that are hard to copy and you need some luck.

95% of the machines Downabout makes are for export mainly to China and Germany and demand

is growing.

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