New investment in Aragon. The American multinational Becton Dickinson, what already manufactures syringes in Fraga (Huesca), will install a new plant in the Empresarium polygon from Zaragoza, in the Cartuja neighborhood.
The investment, from 165 million euros in total, it will initial creation of 150 jobs in a first phase, that will start in 2023 and that will end with 600 jobs in 2030.
I had boyfriends this investment and a great hurry to be from the health sector, and Aragon competed with other communities such as Madrid, but Zaragoza is the one that will host this new plant. The Aragonese capital “will always have advantage“, said the counselor Marta Gastón.
And this is your population, and the possibility of implanting vocational training programs to have manpower, in addition to administrative agility, according to the government, which has done along with logistical reasons to decide on Zaragoza.
Already in October, Becton Dickinson expressed her interest to the regional executive to find a location for another plant that, it will be, has underlined Marta Gastón, “complementary to that of Fraga” and, in this way, “generating synergies with the same”.
Gastón has remarked that “this has no negative effect at all” to the one installed in the Bajo Cinca region, “which is having such a good development”.
Total implementation in 2030
The plant will begin to be built already this year and expects to start production in 2023 but will not complete its full implementation until 2030. They will be “various phases over 10 years, a process that will begin with the hiring 150 employees and that, once these phases are completed, it will reach a minimum of 600 employees “.
The Government of Aragon will cut the procedures for this facility in half by declaring it of regional interest and will try to capture as well European funds because, according to the counselor, they comply with all transition criteria.
It is, said Gastón, good economic news. “The satisfaction with a new investment, a new expectation that this new plant will materialize in the Empresarium industrial estate “.
Important sale of industrial land in Zaragoza
In the Zaragoza City Council, the arrival of Becton Dickinson it has been announced with the solemnity of great occasions. “We are gonna give one of the most important news of the legislature in our city “, has advanced Mayor Jorge Azcón.
The city government has approved the specifications to tender the sale of 102,000 square meters of industrial land at the Polígono Empresarium, in La Cartuja, for a minimum price of 3 million euros.
The mayor has taken his chest out of his government team: “It is the second time in less than two years that this government has attracted an investment of these characteristics; this joins the hospital operation“. And he added that”In less than two years, Zaragoza has been able to mobilize and attract investment worth 265 million euros, which will mean the creation of no less than 1,100 jobs “.
The Deputy Mayor for Urban Planning Víctor Serrano He has also been proud. “From 2003 until today, Zaragoza as such, the City Council, has sold 30,000 square meters of land until today and today We have put out to tender 102,000 square meters of industrial land in the city; we are especially happy. “
Serrano has assured that the company will have six months to present your project, with which the works could begin towards September of this same year.
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