The roundtable meeting focused on local industry, held on the InfoTV set within the scope of the Municipality 2023 Forum, revealed the great importance of making land available on time to facilitate the settlement and withdrawal of new companies. Here are the first local governments San Vicente del Raspeig, Crevillent, Novelda and Xixona There were attendees at this meeting where the importance of training and having an expert workforce was clearly evident, as well as the urgency of reducing bureaucratic procedures.
Paçi PascualThe mayor of San Vicente assures that many companies want to move to settle in this municipality, and therefore they are working to amend the General Urban Planning Plan to expand by another 600,000 square meters next to the El Canastell industrial area.
He also wants the ideas and entrepreneurs leaving the University of Alicante Science Park to stay here, in a town that is also on track to realize its first collaboration.
Lourdes AznarThe Mayor of Crevillent has broken a spear in favor of the new generations who are keeping the carpet and rug industry alive, opening up new markets and innovating in materials such as steel and mediums such as gardening, cladding and decoration. in hotels.
From the first mayor Novelda, Fran MartinezHe pointed out the advantages of being geographically in the city center, not just at the bottom of the highway but also a few minutes away from the port and airport, and the importance of this in terms of logistics, especially after the pandemic.
Novelda reminded that the industrial zone is almost 100 percent completed, so they hope to add a 1.5 million square meter business park within a year or two.
From Mayor Xixona, Isabel Lopez, recalled that his municipality had transcended the local and national thanks to products like Nougat and Ice Cream. There are highly specialized companies on seven industrial estates in the municipality, where more industrial land has already been classified and prepared for development.
The highest local authority announced at the Municipality Forum that it is counting on the National Association of Ice Cream Producers to improve its headquarters here, as well as the establishment of a research institute for artisan ice cream in the future.
old cement factory
Regarding the recycling of the old cement factory, the mayor of San Vicente reminded that cement production was stopped in 2008 and the land has been degraded since then. Faced with this, Pachi Pascual wants to integrate this land into the urban fabric of the city and relies on a study carried out by university experts to see the possibilities of this 200,000 square meters of land. The mayor believes that this project will serve to complete the transformation of San Vicente.
Mechanical
Lourdes Aznar, on the other hand, emphasizes the lack of specialized workforce by considering the need for repairmen for the carpet industry’s machines, while revealing her desire to develop industrial areas and encourage entrepreneurs with tax deductions, which is a difficult but difficult thing at the moment. It’s not impossible.
outdoor shopping mall
Fran Martínez also emphasized the importance of the new entrepreneurial centre, the transformation of the food market into an open shopping mall and the commitment to heritage tourism, the use of modernism as a flag and that Novelda is a friendly town.
improve the road
The mayor of Xixona claimed, among other things, that a 21st-century road was needed once and for all to facilitate connections.