PMG Asturias Powder Metal IDEPA 2021 Business Growth Award

PMG Asturias Powder Metal, awarded with the IDEPA 2021 Business Growth Award

After 25 years in Asturias, its constant investments have allowed the development of a high value-added industrial activity in the automotive sector

The Economic Development Agency of the Principality of Asturias (IDEPA) has awarded the IDEPA 2021 Award for Business Growth to PMG Asturias Powder Metal.

Part of PMG – Powder Metal Goldschmidt, PMG Asturias Powder Metal is a foreign capital company with a 25-year history in Mieres, Asturias. Its constant investment has allowed the development of a high added value industrial activity, such as the manufacture of mechanical components using sintered technology for the automotive industry.

24 September, 2021 /

Amazon construye un centro logístico en Asturias Siero

Amazon accelerates its setting up in Asturias as a major hub in northwest Spain

It is building a sortable fulfillment center in Siero, which will be one of the largest in southern Europe and will create around 2,000 jobs

It also announces the construction of a delivery station in Gijón and investments in its Meres receive center

Amazon is betting on Asturias as its major centre of operations for northwest Spain and part of Portugal. The US logistics and e-commerce global player is making good progress in the construction of its new sortable fulfillment center in Siero and plans to build a delivery station in Gijón and improve the receive center it has in Meres (Siero).

19 August, 2021 /

ArcelorMittal acería de Gijón Asturias

ArcelorMittal starts the revolution of the iron and steel process in Asturias with an investment of 1 billion euros

The multinational signs a Memorandum of Understanding with the Spanish Government to reduce CO2 emissions by 50% in five years

It will build a DRI (direct reduction of iron ore) plant and an electric arc furnace at its Gijón factory

ArcelorMittal has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Spanish Government that will see a €1 billion investment in decarbonisation technologies at its plant in Gijón, Asturias, and means revolutionising the way the multinational produces steel in our region.

The investments will reduce CO2 emissions at ArcelorMittal’s Spanish operations by up to 4.8 million tonnes, approximately 50% of emissions, within the next five years. It will be its largest decarbonisation project in the world.

16 July, 2021 /

Two Asturian health infrastructures, among the most appreciated in Spain

The Fernández-Vega Ophthalmological Institute has been chosen again as the best private ophthalmological centre in Spain

The Central University Hospital of Asturias (HUCA) ranks 18th among the 100 public hospitals with the best reputation

The Fernández-Vega Ophthalmological Institute has been chosen again as the best private ophthalmological centre in Spain, and the Central University Hospital of Asturias (HUCA) ranks 18th among the 100 public hospitals with the best reputation. Both health infrastructures are located in Oviedo.

These are some of the results of the 2020 ranking of the Health Reputation Monitor (MRS), which rates the opinion held of the Spanish healthcare system. The ranking is based on the answers of more than 6,000 surveys of professionals, users, and the Media.

28 May, 2021 /

New support line for the setting up of emerging industries in Asturias

The Regional Government allocates 4 million euros to companies that want to set up in Asturias with an innovative project

Faced with the current delicate economic situation that we are still suffering due to the COVID19 pandemic, the Government of Asturias takes the initiative with a series of measures for a strong boost to the recovery of the Asturian business fabric.

Sociedad Regional de Promoción (SRP) allocates 14.5 million euros to three new lines of financing to support companies affected by COVID19, the setting up of innovative industries to the region, and the creation and growth of startups.

28 April, 2021 /

A growing interest in investing in Asturias despite the COVID19 pandemic

The Economic Development Institute of the Principality of Asturias has received 59 applications for aid from companies that want to invest

What can Asturias do to attract economic activity? Eva Pando, Managing Director of the Economic Development Institute of the Principality of Asturias (IDEPA), outlined the keys to our region’s strategy to remain an attractive destination for both domestic and foreign investment during a debate organised by the Asturian newspaper La Nueva España,

Pando presented some data that gives an idea that, despite the crisis associated with the coronavirus pandemic, there is interest in companies to develop projects in our region. “We have received 59 applications for aid from companies that want to invest,” she said, adding that IDEPA is also working with 22 technology-based companies that have plans for Asturias.

16 October, 2020 /

Remote work Spain Asturias safe work paradise

#SafeWorkParadise, a campaign to encourage teleworking from Asturias

Through the area Invest in Asturias, IDEPA seeks to attract talent to a region that has ideal conditions for remote work

The situation resulting from the COVID19 pandemic has brought a new scenario to the world economy. Months of confinement and almost total paralysis of economic and business activity have led to an increase in teleworking, a circumstance that is both uncertain and hopeful, also for Asturias.

Many companies and professionals were not used to working remotely. However, many other organisations have been developing this methodology for years, endeavouring to make this form of inter-company communication possible and demonstrating that it is real and productive.

13 August, 2020 / 1

ArcelorMittal Hornos Altos empleo inversión extranjera directa Asturias

Asturias, third Spanish region in increase of employment generated by Foreign Direct Investment

Companies with foreign capital generated 31,855 jobs in Asturias in 2018, 10.9% more than the previous year

Asturias is the third Spanish autonomous community in terms of the growth rate of employment generated by Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Spain, according to the latest data published by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism, which corresponds to the year 2018.

Specifically, Asturias recorded an increase in the employment rate of 10.9% with respect to 2017, only behind Cantabria and the Community of Madrid (this with an increase of 11.7%). In absolute terms, the employment generated by FDI in Asturias in 2018 was 31,855 occupied workers.

26 June, 2020 /

Twenty years of the IQPA Cluster, a joint effort by the large chemical companies to make Asturias grow

The chemical and process industry in Asturias reaffirms its commitment to innovation, sustainability and collaboration

This year marks two decades since the creation of the Association of Chemical and Process Industries of Asturias (AIQPA), which represents a key sector in the regional economy and is a flagship for the promotion of Asturias as an industrial region.

The association and the IQPA Cluster have been sponsoring the collaboration between professionals from companies in the sector for twenty years with a technical approach and a commitment to innovation, sustainability and cooperation.

15 June, 2020 /

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