Belen Estacio

we come from a proud heritage of toolmakers, 60 years in the making. efraim, born in what is nowadays ukraine (at that time romania) studied and worked as an assistant in a metalworking workshop as a young man. he showed from a young age that he was an excellent operator, but efraim had an eye for design; he could take projects from an idea to reality. when war broke out at the end of the 1930s, efraim, like so many jews faced regimes of persecution, hunger, and war. eventually, together with his wife fanny and daughter ilana, he got the opportunity to emigrate to canada, where efraim opened his first business, opening a metalworking workshop called machine craft in the garage of the house his sons norman and steven were born. arriving in canada, he decides to change his name to frank cooper. part of his wife’s family had managed to reach venezuela during the 50s, and by 1964, after several successful business trips to caracas, frank decided to emigrate again. here he founded an