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The Minister of Industry, Energy and Mines of the Andalusian Government, Jorge Paradela, has emphasized that Huelva, where the largest industrial park in Spain is concentrated, «is leading the transformation towards the type of industry that Europe wants, based on clean technologies and decarbonization, and on attracting new investment linked to energy transition or using energy transition as a lever.»
In this line, he has advanced that «out of the more than 9,000 million euros of investment that have been attracted to Andalusia through projects linked to the green industry, low in emissions, 44%, almost 4,000 million euros, are located in Huelva«. An investment that translates into 97 projects «ambitious and tremendously promising» related to decarbonized industry, green molecules, the chemical industry, the recovery of electronic waste, or the production of green methanol.
Jorge Paradela has highlighted the contribution of industrial activity to the province of Huelva, where one out of every four euros generated by the economy in Huelva comes from this sector, and that, only in the last year, employment linked to industry has increased by 6%, a rate that «doubles the national average and speaks of the promising and stimulating moment that the industry in Huelva is experiencing.»
The Minister made these comments during the presentation of the 2024 Memory of the Association of Chemical, Basic and Energy Industries (AIQBE) in Huelva, where he specified that 24% of the Gross Value Added in Huelva comes from the industry. An activity that is registering positive rates in the whole of Andalusia as today’s data on industrial production shows. An indicator that in May grew by 6.3% in the Andalusian community compared to the 0.8% decrease nationally, and that in accumulated terms from January to May advanced by 4.6% in Andalusia, compared to the national decline of 0.5%. An indicator that confirms the «consolidation» of the industry’s progress.
Family photo from the presentation of the AIQBE annual report in Huelva.
Together with the mayor, Pilar Miranda; the president of AIQBE, Juan del Olmo; the delegate of his Ministry in the province, Lucía Núñez, and the Government’s subdelegate, the Minister of Industry, Energy and Mines of the Junta has emphasized that «the most interesting thing that connects directly with what is happening in Huelva is the transformation of the industry.»
«Huelva is not just any province, it is the industrial province of Andalusia», added the Minister, who emphasized that it is the only province in Andalusia where the percentage of GDP linked to the industry exceeds 20%.
For Jorge Paradela, «our obligation as the Government of Andalusia is to continue creating a conducive environment for investment, based on administrative agility, on proactivity when listening to companies, something to which we dedicate a lot of time, and also on specific instruments of support» to support these investment projects and improve the competitiveness and energy efficiency of the industrial sector.
In this sense, he recalled that his department will make available to the Andalusian productive fabric over 700 million euros throughout this year in support instruments to incentivize industrial activity in the community. Among them, he highlighted for their innovative nature the Integrated Incentives, INCEA, which combine industrial competitiveness and energy improvement, with 250 million euros in aid in key sectors for the industrial fabric in Huelva such as green hydrogen, mining, or production spaces.