Xunta and Repsol are assessing joint collaboration avenues
Santiago de Compostela, 14 July 2026 The Secretaries for Environment and Climate Change, Ángeles Vázquez, and for Economy and Industry, María Jesús Lorenzana, met today with Berta Cabello, Director of Renewable Fuels at Repsol, and Natalia Barreiro, Director of the Industrial Complex in A Coruña, to assess joint collaboration avenues between the two entities. During […]
Lorenzana highlights that around fifty Galician companies have benefited from the first line of grants for certifications in the defence sector
These are companies from areas such as the naval, metal-mechanical, aerospace, technological, transport, industrial maintenance, automotive, electricity and electronics, consultancy, construction, engineering or additive manufacturing sectors This line of support is one of the measures that the Galician Government is developing within the Strategic Initiative for Security, Defence and Aerospace, where association agreements play a […]
Rueda announces that the Xunta is allocating €40 million to attract large-scale projects in security, defence and aerospace, and to strengthen these industries in Galicia
He highlights that this will be a “pioneering measure in Spain”, to be implemented through the Pre-commercial Public Procurement (PCP) model The Galician Government will select technological partners to develop innovative solutions in dual technologies and to attract high-value-added investments The Secretary of State for Economy and Industry stresses that manufacturing in Galicia will be […]
Lorenzana announces that the Xunta will approve this year the first Business Innovation Strategy for Galicia, which will mobilise more than €400 million
She points out that the aim is to link Galicia’s innovation ecosystem with industry and that R&D&i should truly transform Galician companies It is born “absolutely connected” with the I+G+i brand and with the triple objective of “making innovation have impact” so that “the companies that are already here can grow and strengthen; the ones […]
Lorenzana highlights the role that the administration should play as an ally of the companies that want to invest in Galicia
O Grove (Pontevedra), 9 July 2026 The Regional Minister for Economy and Industry, María Jesús Lorenzana, highlighted today the role that the regional administration should play as an ally of the companies that want to set up in Galicia, investing in business land, strengthening infrastructures, simplifying procedures and promoting innovation. She made this point during […]
Rueda highlights Galicia’s logistical and industrial capacity in light of the arrival of the multinational SAIC
He points out that the tests being carried out these days are the tangible evidence of the company’s commitment to the autonomous community and the start of “a long-term industrial project destined to transform Galicia’s future” He states that the region offers “stability, industrial capacity, infrastructures, logistics and talent, as well as the guarantee that […]
Rueda meets with SAIC representatives at Monte Pío
Santiago de Compostela, 8 July 2026 The President of the Xunta, Alfonso Rueda, accompanied by the Regional Minister for Economy and Industry, María Jesús Lorenzana, received today at Monte Pío the Vice-Chairman of SAIC, Wu Bing, and the General Deputy Director of SAIC Motor, Shi Lei, on the eve of the first arrival of cars […]
Lorenzana announces that at the end of this year the construction works for the new industrial estate in Ribeira will be put out to tender
They will be nearly 260,000 m² of industrial land, part of the more than 3.5 million m² that the Xunta is processing in the province of A Coruña The adaptation of the urbanisation project, carried out by Xestur, is necessary because the current one requires a greater degree of development and technical definition due to […]
Lorenzana highlights that the Xunta is developing an industrial policy of anticipation in order to “be ready before the opportunity arrives”
“The large investments do not arise on the day they are announced. On that day they become visible, but they begin much earlier,” she says She assures that Galicia has been creating for years the conditions that companies now demand and that the aim is not to attract isolated investments, but to build a portfolio […]
Xunta presents, for the first time at the Galicia Economic Office in Madrid, the BFAero start-ups to 18 investment funds
“It is essential that we can use our Economic Office as a showcase for everything that is done in Galicia in order to attract that investment,” Lorenzana says She highlights that, in the aerospace field, Galicia has launched an innovative public procurement system in which it is a pioneer in Spain, and that, together with […]
