• Casares has highlighted that in Cantabria 860 million euros of PRTR funds are executed or in execution, of which almost 80% have been awarded to companies, SMEs and self-employed workers.
• The Government delegate in Cantabria visited this Tuesday together with the mayor of Ampuero, Amaya Fernández and the pedáneo of Hoz de Moreno, José García, the company Teknia that has received 1.6 million euros from the PERTE of the electric vehicle

The government delegate in Cantabria, Pedro Casares, has highlighted the “strategic commitment” of the Government of Spain for the reindustrialization of the autonomous community and the transformation of its economic and productive fabric through the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR).

The fact is that, currently, Casares has detailed that in Cantabria there are 860 million euros of European funds in execution or executed and almost 80% have been awarded to companies, SMEs and self-employed.

This was highlighted on Tuesday in the visit he made to the company Teknia in Ampuero, which received 1.6 million euros from the PERTE of the electric vehicle for the manufacture of a new component, a casing for current inverters that are distributed to the main vehicle manufacturers worldwide.

It is, he said, “a project that unites the determined commitment to innovation and leadership in the transition to more sustainable mobility”. In total, the Teknia project has an investment of 6 million euros, and through the PERTE VEC has received almost 1.6 million, 900,000 euros of subsidy and 680,000 euros of loan.

With this project, in operation since mid-year, Teknia plans to increase by 30% the turnover of the aluminum plant, which closed 2024 with 30 million turnover.

Thus, the manager of Teknia, Pablo Quesada, has detailed to the government delegate that so far some 200,000 housings have been distributed to electric vehicle manufacturers and, once the maximum production is reached, they will represent about 8 million more annual turnover.

To the Teknia aluminum plant, a second machining is added and together in 2024 they reached a turnover of 42 million euros and employ more than 300 people.

Casares considered that Teknia is an example of the companies that “make Cantabria better, build territory, establish population, generate quality employment and make our land grow and develop”.

And he has claimed that “European funds are being the biggest engine of economic and social transformation in Cantabria” thanks to the impetus of the Government of Spain.

These funds mainly reach the production fabric and, in the case of the electric vehicle PERTE, have not only reached Teknia but also other innovative industrial projects totaling more than 20.6 million euros.

But the promotion of electric mobility, he added, is also materialized through the MOVES program to support the purchase of electric vehicles and the deployment of charging points, with which 14.5 million euros have been allocated to Cantabria.

“35 million euros only in the field of electric vehicles in Cantabria is an important amount that demonstrates the profound transformation that we are carrying out from the Government of Spain,” he concluded.

The government delegate visited the Teknia company together with its manager, Pablo Quesada; the mayor of Ampuero, Amaya Fernández, and the pedantic mayor of Hoz de Moreno, José García, as well as councilors of the municipal corporation.