The president of the Foral Executive heads a Navarra delegation displaced to Seoul and of which the Minister of Industry and Ecological Transition and Digital Business, Mikel Irujo, and the General Director of Business Development and Infrastructure, Iñigo Arruti are also part. This Monday’s meeting with leaders of the Mobis company has had the participation of the company’s president, Gyu Suk Lee; the executive vice president, Seon Seob Kim; Senior Vice Presidents Hyun Woo Lee and Young Bin Kim; Vice President Ra Shin; and representatives for Mobis Navarra, Sungbum Kang and Maribel Molina. Chivite has highlighted the dynamics of collaboration established between the Navarra Government and the Korean company to boost the arrival of the multinational to the Regional Community. “The implementation of Mobis in Navarra – said – can be considered a success story. The Korean team and our Government team of Navarra have worked together with the sole objective of implementing this plant and that it begins to produce as soon as possible.”
President Navarra recalled in her speech that Volkswagen Navarra and the rest of the auxiliary companies that have historically covered the entire value chain for vehicle manufacturing are currently immersed in a transformation process to adapt to the production of the electric vehicle, with important investments that in the case of the German company exceed 1 billion euros. These transformations are focused on Navarra to make the manufacture of two electric vehicles of segment B.
Key piece: battery
As the President has highlighted, the Mobis assembly plant is a “fundamental piece to complete the industrial ecosystem of the electric vehicle” in Navarra and is also located in a strategic enclave, within the radius of influence of the main manufacturers of the country.
The plant -informa the Foral Government- is “the second largest business investment made in Navarra so far from the century, with 214 million euros, 12.7 of which come from the meter (strategic project for the recovery and economic transformation) of the electric and connected vehicle II”.
The factory will be dedicated to the assembly of the battery system for the electric vehicle, and it is planned to produce up to 360,000 battery systems a year, which will be installed on the latest generation electric vehicle platforms of Volkswagen Navarra.
Mobis is the sixth world supplier of the automotive sector. It has 45 production plants in the world and Noáin’s will be his first factory in Spain. From Navarra, he aspires to be a supplier of both Volkswagen Navarra, and other vehicle assembly companies in southern Europe.
Navarra – President Chivite said in Korea – is a “investment attraction pole”, with four outstanding sectors: automotive, health (with the presence of important pharmaceuticals and prestigious hospitals); Agrifood; and renewable industry, “with 30 years of leadership in the production of wind turbines and green electricity.”
During the first day of stay in Seoul, the Navarra delegation has had the opportunity to visit the Mobis Electification Laboratory. The agenda includes the visit to the Hyundai Motor Company plant, a meeting with Korean business and an encounter with the Spanish ambassador to Korea, Julio Herraiz.
