The Colombian multinational Indaer sets up its operational base for Europe and the Middle East in Asturias.

Colombian aeronautical multinational Indaer sets up in Asturias its operational base for Europe and the Middle East

The office will be located in the Technology Park of Asturias, in Llanera, where Indaer expects to create up to ten highly qualified jobs

The Colombian aeronautical multinational Indaer has just opened a new brand, permanent office in Asturias. A project advised within the framework of the Invest in Asturias programme by the Economic Development Agency of the Principality of Asturias (IDEPA), aimed at attracting investment to our region.

The opening reinforces the presence in Europe and the Middle East of Indaer, a leading company in aircraft lifecycle support solutions.

22 February, 2022 /  
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 /  
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 /  
Industria química Asturias inversión extranjera 2019

Foreign investment grew in Asturias in 2019 above the national average

The chemical industry led the entry of inflows into the region

Foreign productive investment grew by 886% in Asturias in 2019 compared to 2018. It is the fourth position at national level in terms of annual increase, according to data made public by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism.

Specifically, gross investment (discounting Foreign Securities Holding Entities) increased in our region from 11 to 117 million euros. Asturias increased its inflow thanks to significant investment from the Chemical Industry, specifically the Artificial and Synthetic Fibre Manufacturing subsector, whose investment in the first quarter of 2019 represented an injection of 103 million Euros into the region. It is followed by Wholesale Trade and Programming and Consultancy sectors.

26 March, 2020 /  
Encuentros empresariales IDEPA Asturias un lugar donde invertir 2019

XXVIII Business Forum: Asturias, a place to invest

This year´s edition will be focused on the attraction of investments to favour the economic development of Asturias

The President of the Principality of Asturias, Adrián Barbón, will attend on December, 12th., the XXVIII Asturian Business Forum. This annual meeting of business representatives, regional and national Administration, economic promotion bodies and entities, technology and research centres, universities and those people interested in the economic development of Asturias will be held at the Hotel de la Reconquista (Oviedo).

In this year’s edition, we will tackle the attraction of investments as one of the necessary strategies to favour the economic development and productive diversification of Asturias.

23 October, 2019 /  

The “material of the future” already here in Asturias



Never has the world of science expected a material so eagerly as it has graphene, which is generating a huge amount interest. The potential that has been associated with it is so great that it is starting to be known as “the material of the future”, but what is graphene?

31 March, 2017 /  

Avilés: land of engineering giants.



The Aviles-based quay in Valliniello makes an impressive entry into the history books of the Port of Aviles, with the shipment of the longest ever piece to be loaded onto a ship in the estuary.

2 February, 2017 /  

A quarter of a century of the binomial Thyssen-Asturias



Thyssenkrupp Norte – the company belonging to the German holding company Thyssenkrupp AG – which manufactures escalators and moving walkways from the La Pereda Mieres-based industrial estate, is celebrating 25 years of activity in Asturias.

19 January, 2017 /