The Best Of Wine Tourism awards given annually by the World Network of Great Wine Capitals (GWC) have awarded in its 21st edition to the Haro Station District Association, Bodega Hotel FyA, Bodegas Izadi, Bodegas Valdelana, Grupo Criteria, Juan Carlos Ferrando and La Casa Cosme Palacio. The jury also recognised the Esférica Rioja Alavesa festival…
VASCO, founded in Bilbao in 1970, is a global family company dedicated to international transport, logistics, consultancy and innovation. Sustainable growth, which began as a shipping agent in the Port of Bilbao, has enabled it to achieve this international projection after more than 50 years of development. (Autor: Elda Campos Lavín) During this half century of…
Forest Trafic is a company based in the municipality of Amorebieta, Bizkaia, where all its workers are specialist manufacturers and distributors of plywood boards. Currently, the Basque company, with 27 years of experience, is a national leader in its three main lines of business: the manufacture of finished pieces, the design and manufacture of technical…
ITP Aero is leading two R&D projects on electric propulsion systems for urban and regional mobility, with a total budget of 13 million euros, which will be the first propulsion systems of these characteristics made in Spain.This milestone is another step forward in ITP Aero’s market diversification strategy. (Autor: Elda Campos Lavín) Despite the fact…
In 1934, Juan Celaya founded the company Cegasa, based in Oñate, which eventually became the first to manufacture batteries in Spain and one of the first in Europe. (Autor: Elda Campos Lavín) Located in the Álava Technology Park, it focuses on the creation and manufacture of customised energy storage systems for a variety of uses. Its…
“Let’s meet in Innovation Land”: The Basque Government and its Development Agency are organising Basque Open Industry at the Bilbao Exhibition Center (BEC) and will also host the European SME Week (SME Week 2023), as well as the SME Assembly, the annual meeting of the Europe Enterprise Network (EEN). The whole event has been planned…
In view of the major transition that the automotive sector is undergoing in Europe and the need for new approaches for its future, Arantxa Tapia, minister for economic development in the Basque Government, highlights the need to focus the industrial ecosystem on the user/customer. Alongside this, the priority of attending to people’s mobility needs, taking into…
The Basque Government and SPRI, in collaboration with the network of BICs in the Basque Country, have drawn up the first report on the situation of the Basque Entrepreneurship Ecosystem. The report is based on the information collected in Up! Euskadi, the interactive platform built with Dealroom technology to raise the visibility of start-ups, investors…
Iberdrola’s US subsidiary Avangrid has begun construction of the 240 MW True North photovoltaic plant in Falls County (Texas). It will supply clean, renewable energy to power the operations of Meta, the parent company of the social network Facebook, in the region. Since 2020, Meta’s global operations have been supported by 100% renewable energy. The True North project will…
The President of the United States, Joe Biden, toured and spoke at Ingeteam’s plant in the USA during his visit to the City of Milwaukee, where he was welcomed by Alex Belaustegui, Ingeteam’s Corporate Development Director, along with David Solé, Ingeteam’s Managing Director, and Mark Obradovich, Ingeteam’s Director in the USA. Since the opening of…