At the request of the unions, next Thursday, the 19th, the first monitoring meeting of the projects that are part of Nissan's reindustrialization will be held. A call that the Generalitat and the Ministry of Industry have managed, given the concern about the slowness in the implementation of industrial projects.
All the companies involved have been called: Goodman, as logistics operator, and Silence, QEV and Btech for the industrial part. The QEV project is of particular concern, according to sources familiar with the situation.
QEV leads together with Btech – they have created the Tech Factory joint venture – the so-called decarbonization hub, which in principle should take on most of the former Nissan staff, almost 1,400 workers. The reality is that currently the hub has hired a hundred, while Silence has taken on another 95. Only Silence has already begun to actually manufacture in the Free Trade Zone, where it produces its new electric quadricycle.
QEV, which has begun trading on the Amsterdam stock exchange and has Inveready among its partners, is long behind schedule in its industrial plans, according to the same sources. It has the Zeroid van brand, which is currently assembled in China, although the intention was to bring production to Barcelona. “It is not understood why it has not been brought in already,” said the same sources.
Btech, for its part, has the Ebro brand (it plans to launch a pickup truck with it) and is negotiating with the Chinese company Chery to assemble its cars here.
A certain delay was expected, but there is a lot of uncertainty because workers will stop collecting unemployment in December. The Business Department granted aid of 2.1 million to provide pre-hire training, but so far only 330 people have entered the program.
