Zaragoza.- The government delegate in Aragón, Fernando Beltrán, visited this morning the facilities of La Zaragoza, a company that produces, among other products, Ambar beers. Beltrán has met, with the CEO of the Agora Group, Sergio Elizalde, Jesús Soler, Director of Operations, and the brewer and head of R+D GA, Antonio Fumanal, the research and development project that the firm is going to carry out thanks to the help of 740,000 euros awarded by the PERTE Agro of the Ministry of Industry and Tourism.

The delegate highlighted “the firm commitment of the Government of Spain to promote the competitiveness of industries through the PERTE”. The provisional resolution of the PERTE Agro published last August by the Ministry of Industry has granted a total of 14.5 million euros for 30 new projects throughout Spain, with the main objective of improving the position of the agri-food sector, but also of strengthening quality employment and territorial roots. It should be remembered that the previous call, of 2022, was closed with grants totaling 10 million euros for Aragonese companies.

Zaragoza is going to carry out two research and development projects in which 1.9 million euros will be invested. The PERTE grant will cover 50% of one of the projects and while the other will be carried out in public-private collaboration with the National Center for Technology and Food Safety (CNTA), based on a credit of 248,000 euros and the rest on behalf of the CNTA.

The objective is, based on the properties of cereals and the transformation capacity of microorganisms, to produce beers of the future, more nutritional, that contribute to the maintenance of the human microbiota in the best conditions, associating probiotics and prebiotics to the range 000 of the company.