The president of the Principality of Asturias visits the headquarters of the Indra Group to meet with its president

The president of the Principality of Asturias, Adrián Barbón, and the president of the Indra Group, Ángel Escribano, met at the company's headquarters in Alcobendas to discuss the company's plans to strengthen its presence and industrial growth in the region. 

During a visit to Madrid, during which he met with the heads of the Ministries of Defence, Margarita Robles, and Digital Transformation, Óscar López, Adrián Barbón assured that ‘the Principality will facilitate the implementation and rapid growth of Indra Land Vehicles, the company's new land vehicle subsidiary, in Asturias’ and emphasised that ‘his government maintains a constant relationship with companies in the sector to contribute to the consolidation of the new industrial model in Asturias’.

Ángel Escribano said that ‘at Indra we believe that the Spanish defence industry must recover the industrial production capacities that it has always had and of which Asturias is undoubtedly a benchmark’ and added that ‘Indra Land Vehicles will make it possible to manufacture high-value defence platforms with 100% Spanish technology that meet the needs of our Armed Forces’. 

Indra already has a systems development centre in Gijón, Asturias, from where it works on cutting-edge technological projects for clients all over the world. In total, the company currently has 400 professionals. With the arrival of Indra Land Vehicles, this presence will increase significantly, strengthening its participation in a sector such as military vehicles, which offers enormous growth potential in the coming years and also makes intensive use of cutting-edge technologies.

In this regard, Adrián Barbón emphasised ‘the industrial and technological potential of the Principality and the driving and innovative capacity of the defence sector, increasingly related to digitalisation, robotics and Artificial Intelligence’. ‘Indra is a leading company, with the capacity and ambition to revitalise our industry and to take advantage of and enhance the enormous talent of Asturian engineers and technicians/workers’, he added.

In this sense, Ángel Escribano pointed out that ‘Indra is a Spanish-owned company, which maintains its decision-making centres in our country, and which plays a driving role in the entire business and industrial fabric, acting as the backbone of the territory by creating quality and highly specialised employment and wealth wherever it is established’.

In this sense, the company has demonstrated an enormous capacity to lead cutting-edge projects, creating consortiums and alliances with other companies and facilitating their incorporation into world-class projects.