The Reales Fábricas was a brass works that operated for 233 years. It was created in 1773 with patronage from King Charles III by the Viennese engineer Juan Jorge Graubner, who had come to Madrid aged

in Spain. In the last years before his death in 1846, his other industrial interests included the San Andrés lead smelter at Adra, Almería, which he developed into a successful operation, two soap factories