The plant, which will assemble Sagunto battery cells, will be connected to Workshop 10, also located in Martorell, where the Volkswagen group, of which Seat is part, will produce several electric vehicles, including the Cupra Raval.
Seat, part of the Volkswagen group, is going to build a battery cell assembly plant in Martorell (Barcelona), a project that will require an investment of 300 million euros. It is a factory similar to that of Volkswagen Navarra in Landaben.
chairman of Seat Wayne Griffithswho explained that works will begin “in the coming weeks”, with the expectation that they will be completed in 2025. In this new factory, some will work 400 peopleto add a hundred indirect jobs.
Seat’s president explained that the new facilities will cover 64,000 square metres, which is the equivalent of nine football pitches.
The factory from which battery cells are assembled from Saguntowill be connected to Werkplaats 10, also located in Martorell, where the Volkswagen group, of which Seat is part, will produce several electric vehicles, including the Cupra Raval.
In April the volkswagen group He placed representatives of the company’s management in Navarra and the works council who gave the “green light to continue analyzing the possibility of the battery assembly plant being located at the Landaben plant based on new scenarios” (Navarra ).
That same month, however, the management of Volkswagen Navarra announced works council member from the factory that “there was no news” regarding the battery cell assembly plant that the unions want to be located within the Pamplona plant’s facilities. The chairman of the committee, Alfredo Morales, recalled that the company’s management reported that the battery assembly plant was “a necessary project, attractive to Volkswagen Navarra, but it was a project that currently lacked funding”.
Source: EITB
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