An agreement to reactivate the industrial and business fabric of the municipality
Manlleu City Council and the Union of Industrial Estates of Catalonia (UPIC) have signed a collaboration agreement to give new impetus to the town’s estates: Coromina, Verdaguer, Font de Tarrés and Coromina Nord, the Plan of the Farm. The purpose of this agreement is to reactivate the industrial and business fabric of Manlleu, which has suffered the effects of the economic crisis since 2008 and the covid-19 pandemic.
David Bosch, Councilor for Industry, Knowledge and Agenda for Borrowing 2030, has stated that the local body wants to “change the situation” and that the collaboration with the UPIC is an “opportunity” to do so. The agreement proposes several “levers of change” to modernize the estates, increase industrial land, strengthen the mechanical metal value chain, bet on the logistics sector, access the European Next Generation fund and establish alliances with other administrations.
Kinder, technological and sustainable estates
Sílvia Solanellas, director of the UPIC, has expressed her “satisfaction” to collaborate with “one of the councils most involved at the level of estates, which has always had a vision of industrial activity and services”. The non-profit association will work with the local entity to achieve polygons that are friendlier to all citizens, more technological, with connectivity and cyber security, aligned with the green and digital transition, among others.
The new North Coromina estate, about to fill up
Regarding the occupation of the new North Coromina estate, David Bosch explained that “there is a demand from companies” and that, despite having a surface area of 69,000 m² “perhaps it will be too small for us”. According to the councilor, “occupation will be fast”. In two years the area could be at full capacity.