About us

Nouca is the fruit of our roots. From the passion for cultivation and working in a rural enviroment, it arises the desire to offer a delicious, ecological and local product. Through care and respect for the land, we lead a project that aims to bear its own fruit.

We work so that a walnut means more than a product and so that relationships are more than interactions.

We are driven by the never-ending learning from nature and our aim is to share what we collect: Our work is the fruit of that we belive in,

Our history

Nouca is born from the entrepreneurial spirit of a young man and the knowledge and experience of his grandfather.

Year 2012

In the mid-eighties, Ivan Ruiz’s grandfather and great-uncle planted walnut trees among hundreds of fresh fruit trees that had been, for three generations, the basis of the family economy. Thirty years later, Ivan, together with his grandfather, planted more than 4,000 walnut trees and created a company under the trademark: Productes Naturals Golmés.

Year 2014

Between the first and the second year after the creation of the company, a warehouse was built and the first manufacturing line was settled, washing drying and calibrating the walnuts. In addition, the first year of sale, the walnuts were sold so fast that Ivan made the commercial network available to other producers.

Year 2015

With the previous year increase in sales, the company starts the commercialization of the production of more than 30 producers from Catalonia, Aragón, Valencia, Andalusia, Murcia and Castilla la Mancha. The increase in work also favors the growth of the company and another person joins in the team. Focused on the future, the trademark is changed to a name that is easy to pronounce in any language, this is how Nouca is born.

Year 2016

As a small company, in some aspects it still depends a lot on third parties. That is the reason why the first dried fruits harvest equipment in acquired, allowing full autonomy. With this acquisition, a new business line stars: Nouca agricultural services.

Year 2018

Six years after the creation of the company, the growth has been exponential. To achieve better operational management and control a production joins in the team. A second harvest equipment with more capacity is acquired, as well as mobile cleaning line, beeing the first in the entire peninsula, and the drying line with Biomass operation is expanded.

Year 2019

Thanks to the experience acquired and in collaboration with a professor and recognized advisor from Chile, what is today the fourth line of business of the company begins, technical advice on the walnut tree cultivation. In addition, the process of conversion to organic farming begins, which is our bet for the future.

Year 2020

The world will remember 2020 as the year of Covid. In Nouca, 2020 will be remembered as the year of transformation. A hard year full of many efforts in which we have decided to be much more than an agri-food production company. A year in which we have put our soul at the service of the change in which we believe.

Philosophy

Put in the hands of everyone a healthy and quality product that transmits the passion for life that we feel through respect, responsibility and cooperation. All of them, words linked to our production system.

Corporate Social Responsibility project

Social commitment

We are committed to a responibility project in collaboration with Acudam, a non-profit social initiative entity declared of public utility that was created in 1975 at the initiative of mothers, fathers and relatives of people with disabilities. Its mission is to accompany life projects of people who, even today, do not find their support and the necessary normality in society. From Nouca, we have the association to label our products and we are working on future synergies to collaborate with their social work.

Commitment to the environment

We are committed to reducing our carbon footprint, aware of the challenges facing climate change and for this reason we are dedicated to ecological production and we are working on manufacturing processes through renewable energies to the extent possible.