A full view of Asturias capabilities at the Global Investment Convention GIC III

Invest in Asturias was part of this digital event, aimed at potential investors from all over the world

Invest in Asturias took part this week in the Global Investment Convention GIC III, a prestigious digital event for potential investors and investment agencies all over the world managed by Crescendo Worldwide.

During this convention, we showed the strong capabilities of Asturias for attracting investment in sectors like metal, innovative manufacturing, health, or Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).

22 October, 2021 /

Eva Pando IDEPA Industrial Scale Additive Manufacturing Forum by TRIDITIVE

Additive Manufacturing Forum by TRIDITIVE, in search for the modernization of Asturias industry

Additive manufacturing for serial production opens new opportunities for the digital transformation of the industrial fabric

Under the name of “The Additive Revolution”, Asturian company TRIDITIVE organized recently in Siero, Asturias, the second Industrial Scale Additive Manufacturing Forum. An event focused on the new opportunities of additive manufacturing for serial production and the impact on the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry.

TRIDITIVE FOXCONN Industrial Scale Additive Manufacturing Forum

Speakers from industry, R&D, entrepreneurship, public entities, and innovation programs provided insights about additive manufacturing in the EU green and digital transition, perspectives of serial production, and entrepreneurship and industrial innovation in Asturias and Spain.

11 October, 2021 /

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 /

Global Perspectives sets up in the Technology Park of Asturias

The British-owned company is dedicated to finding patients willing to participate in non-interventional clinical studies

Global Perspectives plans to increase the management team in Asturias up to 100 jobs, positioning itself as a world leader in its segment

Global Perspectives, a British company dedicated to the search for patients willing to participate in non-interventional clinical studies, will open its new offices in the Technology Park of Asturias. To authorise this incorporation, the Park Committee has valued both the innovative nature of the company and its use of advanced technology.

23 September, 2021 / No Comments /

Merkator grows in Asturias with new offices and plans to expand the workforce

The Belgian multinational is a leading provider of geospatial asset management software and services

Merkator was set up in 2018 in our region as part of the Invest in Asturias programme

The Belgian multinational Merkator completed this week the move to its new offices in the Centro Elena business centre, located in the Technology Park of Asturias (in Llanera).

Merkator was set up in our region in 2018 with the support of the Economic Development Agency of the Principality of Asturias (IDEPA), an entity under the Regional Ministry of Employment, Industry and Tourism, through the Invest in Asturias programme.

17 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 /

Technology company TeamEQ settles in Asturias for international expansion

This move is the result of the Asturias Government’s Investment Attraction Strategy

TeamEQ proposes an investment of 2.3 million euros and the creation of 18 highly qualified jobs in two years

The international technology company TeamEQ has just completed its move to Asturias. This movement is framed within the Investment Attraction Strategy of the Asturian Regional Government, materialised through the joint work of the Economic Development Agency (IDEPA) and the Regional Promotion Society of the Principality of Asturias (SRP).

Created between Silicon Valley and Barcelona, TeamEQ plans to develop its international expansion from Asturias. Its growth strategy involves an investment of 2.3 million euros and the creation of 18 highly qualified jobs in two years.

28 July, 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 /

Puerto de El Musel Gijón torre de Capitanía

Sea8 to invest 73 million euros in a sole farming plant in the Port of Gijón

This new sole plant in Gijón will create 145 jobs in a few years

The company Sea8 will create an aquaculture center for the breeding of sole in the Port of El Musel, Gijón. It will involve an investment of 73 million euros and, when fully mature, will create 145 jobs.

The project by Sea8, which belongs to the Atitlán Group, is part of the Asturias Investment Attraction Strategy, led by the Regional Ministry of Industry, Employment and Economic Promotion through the Economic Development Agency of the Principality of Asturias (IDEPA). This means that all administrative deadlines will be accelerated to the maximum.

31 May, 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 /

news