The meeting takes place in the midst of negotiations between the company and the workers to define when and how the investment to manufacture pure electric cars will arrive at the Valencian plant.
In key months to know How and when the investment should be made towards the electrification of the Ford Almussafes factory, The president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, met this Wednesday with the president and CEO of the oval firm in Spain, Jesús Alonso; the director of Manufacturing of Ford Spain, Dionisio Campos, and the director of Institutional Relations of the company, Fernando Acebron.
During the meeting – in which the Minister of Finance, Economy and Public Administration, Ruth Merino, also participated; the Minister of Environment, Water, Infrastructure and Territory, Salomé Pradas; and the Minister of Innovation, Industry, Commerce and Tourism, Nuria Montes – have been addressed, as the Presidency has expressed in a statement, “aspects of the joint collaboration between the automobile company and the Generalitat, and the relevance of the multinational in the Valencian economy and in the development of the automobile sector in the Community has been revealed.
For their part, Ford sources consulted by this newspaper indicated that the meeting It is part of the “usual contacts” that we have with the Valencian Administration, but they refused to make any statement regarding what was discussed therein.
Waiting for certainties
Not in vain, as has been reported in recent months by the majority union at the plant, UGT, still three vital questions must be resolvedwhich are included in the models that will definitely be manufactured in the future in Almussafes, When will the necessary investments be made to manufacture and How is this transition going to be faced? until reaching the launch day of the first electric vehicle. Without these answers, the union already warned at the beginning of the month that “already “No other type of agreement will be possible.”
For now, in the absence of this news, The central government decided this month to grant 37.6 million euros within the first line of aid from the Perte II of the electric vehicle – the one destined for batteries – to the oval brand, funds that will be spent to have a battery plant on the land of the Valencian factory destined for the pure electric vehicle. This would have the function of assembling – not manufacturing – the cells that will be used by these future cars that will be produced in Almussafes expectedly from 2027.