Indra presents a military vehicle plant in As Pontes with an investment close to 18 million euros. The factory expects to create between 70 and 120 high-skilled direct jobs.
The company has unveiled details of the factory on the former grounds of Hierros Añón, in the Penapurreira industrial estate, with the aim of becoming a Spanish and European benchmark in military vehicle manufacturing. According to Economía Digital, Indra will allocate around 18 million euros to the plant and expects to create between 70 and 120 high-skilled direct jobs.
Present at the event were Indra's CEO, Josep María Recasens, the president of the Xunta, Alfonso Rueda, the Minister of Economy and Industry, María Jesús Lorenzana, and the mayor of As Pontes and president of the Diputación de A Coruña, Valentín González Formoso.
Recasens places the plant in its northern corridor, specialised in military vehicles, while the central corridor focuses on drones and the southern corridor on radars. The executive describes the current environment with a clear idea:
“paradigm shift from an ordered world to a disordered one”
According to Recasens, the Defence sector is a capital element that ensures rights, freedoms, and economic activity. Indra aims to play a leading role in an industry it describes as fragmented and small, and wants to play in the Champions League of European Defence.
The company has contracts worth 12 billion euros, at a time of rearmament plans and increased Defence spending. Recasens points out that, in the first phase, it is the States that bear this burden, with spending of 35 billion euros in the case of Spain. The second wave will fall on European authorities.
The plant will have 15,000 square metres of built area on a plot of 50,000 square metres. It will assemble 30% of the 8x8 that the company will produce, meaning that more than half of the process will be in the hands of auxiliary suppliers, which the executive considers essential to create an ecosystem of local industries.
Recasens lists five principles that will govern the factory: delivery speed, quality, sovereignty, competitiveness, and the ecosystem of auxiliary industries. Indra also plans to quadruple its industrial footprint in the coming years.
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