One in three dashboards launched in Spain is produced by an Aragonese company With strong roots in society. Cefa-MRA group is a leading manufacturer of these automotive components. Produced at Malpica and Figueruelas facilitiesand is already thinking about the future in the face of the challenge of switching to an electric car.
The ghosts that have surrounded the auto industry in recent years (the impending farewell to the internal combustion engine, a supply crisis or bottlenecks in global logistics) now seem to be starting to hide, so bets on the future are starting to emerge. Jorge Blanchard will invest 117 million euros In both factories, instrument panel production for five different new vehicle models, most of them electric, will begin by 2026.
“These are projects that increasingly involve innovation. For example, we are working on green materials to increase their presence in vehicles through the circular economy,” said Jorge Blanchard. CEFA (Fabric Pulp) general manager, He emphasized the problems they had in finding personnel. “We are in the midst of frantic staff consolidation, but it is going slower than we would like due to the situation in the labor market of society. “Lack of talent is one of the main bottlenecks in the industry,” said Blanchard, determining the number of workers in both factories as 350 and the total number of personnel at 800.
Now the Figueruelas factory, which is close to the Stellantis factory and received an official visit from the vice president of the Government of Aragon and the Minister of Industry, Cowboy Sea, and director general of Economic Policy, Javier Martínez, It produces the instrument panels and doors of the Opel Corsa and its electric version, the dashboard of the Seat León, the Cupra model and the Volkswagen T-Cross, and the door trims of the Mercedes Vito. With this, they want to further increase their market share. increase to 40% compared to competitorssuch as the multinational Faurecia or Burgos-based Antolin.
This facility, which has a surface of exactly 22,000 m² (16,000 m² in Malpica), produces one jump per minute, The same pace as the production lines of the Stellantis factory in Figueruelas, where one car is produced every minute. Mar Vaquero praised the veteran company, which at the age of 77 “exports the Aragon name to the old continent” and ensures that millions of vehicles worldwide have components from Aragonese factories. Using his example, he called on Aragonese companies to consider it “imperative” to commit to innovation if they want to “be successful in the future”.
Vaquero predicts “very positive years” for the car
“The company has many positive years ahead of it and this will have positive results.” direct effect It will benefit our community in terms of employment and leadership in the automotive industry,” said the regional Executive vice president.
Likewise, he assured that Aragon has well-known prestigious companies and “thousands of people” doing “wonderful” work in these companies. ““We work to ensure that this sector continues to be fundamental to the creation of employment and prosperity across society.” apostilled