Industrial memory

The company Valls, Teixidor, Jordana y Cia. — founded in April 1909 by Camil Valls, Ignasi Teixidor, Eugeni Jordana, Josep Maria Macià and Antoni Novals — bought a plot of land bordering Carrer Pere IV from the cotton-print manufacturer Lluis Pellerin, in order to set up a factory for medical articles and products. The building project was signed by the industrial engineer Emili Lluch; all that survives of it today are the chimney and the warehouses next to Carrer Pere IV, whose somewhat Modernista façades still display the medical crosses that referred to the company's business. The firm presented itself as heir to the former J. Clausolles company, a significant detail given the pioneering role played by the Clausolles family.

Around 1913, following the loss of one of its founding partners, the company was renamed Valls, Jordana y Cia., and after the death of another, Camil Valls, the firm S. A. Clausolles was finally established in January 1916.
Born as the successor to the previous company and driven by Eugeni Jordana — who was in charge of its management — the new firm had a capital of 2,500,000 pesetas and, like its predecessors, continued to claim the business legacy of the Clausolles name.

The purchase of the factory in 1955 by Metales y Plateria Ribera, S.A. marked the start of a new chapter for the factory complex, now as a property investment to be let out. In the year of the purchase, the firm Pané, S.A., while occupying the premises, carried out — with the Riberas' approval — a major refurbishment of the site, building a new group of warehouses inside it.

Around 1960 the owners began dividing up the premises, with part of them occupied by Domingo Cantí's textile business.
From 1967 the firm Helios Tratamientos Térmicos occupied most of the new warehouses; its activity led to constant complaints from neighbours about the pollution they had to endure.

The current phase of transformation, in line with what has been happening at other factory complexes in Poblenou, began in 2019 when the La Clandestina de Poblenou Cultural and Creative Association began, step by step, to open the space to the neighbourhood, programming cultural and creative activities, workshops, markets and socio-cultural events.

In addition, supporting entrepreneurship became an important activity for the space from 2020 onwards, with the opening of shared workspaces and the hosting of projects as diverse as they are creative and innovative.