Alfonso Mañueco, meets with Belgian companies in Brussels.
The President of the Regional Government of Castilla y León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, held a meeting today in Brussels with the heads of four of the most important Belgian companies, Drylock Technologies, Asistem, VPG and SOFINA, to whom he presented the advantages offered by the Community as an investment destination thanks to its location, infrastructures, quality of its training centres, institutional stability and work environment, as well as by the policy of the regional executive to provide land and attract investment.
After the meeting, the president of the Board, accompanied by the general manager of Drylock, Miguel Ángel González, has advanced a total investment of 95 million euros, the result of the collaboration between the regional executive, said company and Asistem, which will promote industrial activity in the province of Segovia and will have an impact on the creation of 400 direct and indirect jobs.
An investment that includes the construction of a new factory, located in the Polígono de los Hitales, in the Segovian town of Bernuy de Porreros, to which Drylock will allocate 40 million euros and which will generate about 200 direct jobs, most of them women. This initiative will be joined by a logistics platform developed by Asistem, already underway, which involves another 30 million in direct investment and the creation of 40 new jobs.
For its part, in response to these needs of the company's economic activity, the Junta de Castilla y León will invest 24.5 million euros in this enclave to develop 108 hectares of quality land, with industrial and logistics services, as well as renewable energy means.
Fernández Mañueco has pointed out that this initiative is included in the object of the new Territorial Development Plan for Segovia and, in turn, is part of a planning and investment strategy in industrial infrastructures of the regional Executive, with the aim of making available to companies and industries that want to establish themselves in the Community industrial land with renewable energy services and logistics service areas that allow the development of an industrial activity capable of creating quality employment. In the coming years, the creation and marketing of more than 1 million square meters of industrial space is planned.
Drylock Technologies in Castilla y León
Drylock Technologies, a Belgian multinational that operates in the cellulose sanitary products sector, has a production plant in Segovia that employs more than 320 workers. VGP specialises in the construction of industrial and semi-industrial infrastructure, and SOFINA, founded more than 125 years ago as an engineering conglomerate, is today an investment company with shareholdings in Europe, Asia and the United States.
Drylock's experience in Castilla y León, and its future projects have served as an excellent letter of introduction to the lines of public-private collaboration promoted by the Junta de Castilla y León to try to respond to the needs of companies.
