Gran Vía, 35 - 3ª. 48009 Bilbao / Spain Telf.: + 34 94 403 70 12 Fax: + 34 94 403 70 22 E-mail: [email protected] http://www.spri.net Parque Tecnológico, Edif.101 48170 Zamudio / Spain Telf.: + 34 94 420 98 77 Fax: + 34 94 420 98 79 E-mail: [email protected] http://www.acicae.es The Basque Automotive Suppliers Industry Index 1 3 The Basque Country: The Basque Automotive A Growing Industrial Reality 9 Suppliers Industry 17 · Strategic Location 9 · Sector Highlights 18 · Industrial Fabric and Subcontracting 11 · Activity of Basque Automotive Suppliers 19 · International Commitment 11 · Administrative Structure 11 · Training Infrastructure 13 4 · R&D Infrastructure 13 Companies 23 · Industrial and Economic Infrastructure 13 · Quality of Life 13 · Classified by Type of Process 23 · Classified by Product Type 29 2 Basque Technology for a Highly 5 Demanding Market 15 Basque Automotive Suppliers Directory 35 General Picture Area 7,234 Km2 Population (2003) 2,112,204 (5.4% of the population of the Spanish State) Population density 287.9 Inhabitants / Km2 Official Languages Basque and Spanish Capitals Bilbao, Vitoria – Gasteiz and Donostia – San Sebastián Airports Loiu, Hondarribia and Foronda Main ports Bilbao and Pasaia Technology parks Bizkaia (Zamudio), Gipuzkoa (Miramón) and Araba (Miñano) Doctors 456 for every one hundred thousand inhabitants Sports facilities 3,058 Students/teacher 9.6 Ratio (for secondary education) Schooling rate (15-19 years) 83.5% (20-29 years) 23.5% Source: Eustat and Author´s own 8 The Basque Country: A Growing Industrial Reality T he Basque country provides the perfect natural and society and for the conditions, attitudes and aptitudes industrial setting for the development of the Automotive required to develop a highly active and competitive Industry. With an industrial history that goes back more than Automotive Industry. 300 years, the Basque Country boasts some of the most prestigious educational institutions in Spain, producing large numbers of well-trained professionals. Its geographical Strategic Location location and modern communications infrastructures facilitate The Basque Country, one of the major geographical the necessary mobility of materials and people. Moreover, communications centres located along Europe’s Atlantic its large number of support institutions promote R&D activities seaboard, has several seaports, national and international and facilitate the diffusion of new technologies. airports, a large, well-connected railway network and first- Located in the north-eastern corner of the Iberian Peninsula rate motorways and roads. and one of the largest industrial areas in Spain, the Basque In addition, the logistics centres of the Port of Bilbao and Country is known for its ability to adapt to the continuous Vitoria airport cater for goods being transported to and from changes associated with the development of an advanced major international destinations. 9 Industrial and Subcontracting Network Exports – Non energetic imports 2004 Companies (2003): (Total No.) 171,988 BASQUE SPANISH Employed population * (Persons) 912,500 COUNTRY STATE Unemployment Rate 7.0% EXPORTS 12,793 145,619 Agriculture * (% population) 1.73 (Millions of Euros) Industry * (% population) 26.90 IMPORTS 9,538 206,980 Construction * (% population) 9.19 (Millions of Euros) Services * (% population) 62.18 COVERAGE/ BALANCE OF 133.56 70.4 Steel and special steels. PAYMENTS (%) Aeronautics and Aerospace industry. Source: Eustat and Ministry of Economy Industrial sectors with Automotive sector. greater presence: Capital goods Electrical household appliances. Electronics, computing and telecommunications. Machine Tools. Gross Domestic Product - GDP (Mill. Euros) 44,881 Technological Level of Exported GDP per inhabitant (Euros) 24,552 Products Gross added value distribution 1995 2004 Agriculture (%) 1.36 HIGH (%) 1.11 2.87 Industry (%) 32.23 MEDIUM HIGH (%) 39.95 48.54 Construction (%) 7.93 MEDIUM LOW (%) 49.56 40.43 Services (%) 58.48 LOW (%) 9.34 8.16 Imports (Mill. Euros) 12,474 100 100 Exports (Mill. Euros) 13,521 Source: EUSTAT Research and Development (%/GDP) 1.48 Source: Basque Government and Eustat. GDP EVOLUTION (%) External trade. Export tendency. (%). 6.0 5.2 5.3 Export tendency* 4.4 A. R. Basque Country 30.65 4.3 4.1 4.1 3.3 3.8 3.5 3.3 Spain 30.50 3.0 2.5 2.7 3.0 2.7 2.5 2.6 France 22.97 2.3 2.4 2.4 2.8 2.0 2.2 1.7 United Kingdom 19.3 1.6 1.8 1.7 1.0 Germany 33.00 0.8 Japan 10.2 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 20002001 2002 2003 Italy 26.00 Source: EUSTAT. 2003. A.C.B.C. SPAIN EUROPEAN UNION * Exports/GDP Source: Revenue Department. Basque Government Quality ISO 9000 Certified Companies (No.) 4,016 ISO 14001 Certified Companies (No.) 675 Awarded entities (EFQM Model of Excellence) (No.) 5 Q Oro Premio Vasco Calidad de Gestión 15 Q Plata 65 No. of quality certificates/1000 mill. Euros of GDP 11.5 (Third highest rate in Europe) Source: Department of Industry, Commerce and Tourism. 2004 10 Industrial Fabric and Subcontracting The Basque Country has a long industrial history that began and attract new business to the region. “Sociedad para la with the dawning of the iron and steel industry, eventually Promoción y la Reconversión Industrial, S.A.” (SPRI - led to the creation of major industries such as shipbuilding Association for the Promotion of Industry) is the official and heavy engineering, and more recently has evolved development agency for the Basque Country. Its main towards today’s most advanced technologies. The widely- undertakings include promoting the Basque Country as an recognised industriousness of the Basque people has given attractive location for inward investment and forging business rise to a highly-specialised network of small and medium- relations between foreign and Basque companies. Over the sized companies, providing a wealth of subcontracting and last 20 years, SPRI has accumulated a great deal of outsourcing possibilities. experience in this field and its advanced system of industrial promotion has provided public and private financial support for a wide variety of activities. International Commitment The Basque Public Administration has created a number of entities that provide basic support for industry in areas such Basque companies are extremely active internationally with as: Management Quality (Euskalit), the Environment (Ihobe), facilities and/or strategic alliances in a large number of Technology (Eite), etc. This is the main reason why the countries throughout the world, especially in the other Basque Country has one of the highest densities of ISO member states of the European Community, Latin America 9000 certificates in Europe and a larger rate of implementation and the Far East. of the EFQM European excellence model. There is also a high level of awareness of environmental issues, which contributes to reducing environmental impact and helps to Administrative Structure ensure quality surroundings, in spite of the high degree of industrialisation. As an Autonomous Community, the Basque Country enjoys a wide range of administrative powers including: industrial The Basque Country boasts one of the best public health policy, education and public investment. Local authorities services in Spain, Osakidetza, as well as one of the most have a long record of providing companies with strong modern and automated public administrations, which pays institutional support to facilitate the launch of new business special attention to the development of electronic government, projects, develop new technological products and companies, for which it has developed a special programme. 11 Training Infraestructure Universities - University of the Basque Country/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU) (public) - University of Deusto/Deustuko Unibertsitatea (private) - University of Navarre (San Sebastian campus) (private) - University of Mondragon (private) University students (2003) (No.) 91,000 University students in Industrial Engineering (2002) (No.) 3,962 (2005) (No.) - Machine Tools Institute (Elgoibar-Gipuzkoa): · Vocational Training students: 252 · Engineering in combined shifts: 52 - Centres for Vocational Training in Metal (Basque Country): 73 - Vocational Training students for the Metal Sector (Basque Country) 6,271 No. of workers who are studying continuous training courses 100,987 in the Basque Country (No.) Sources: FORCEM, HOBETUZ, Basque Government (Education) and AFM. R&D Infrastructure R&D Spending (% GDP) 1.49 R&D Spending (Mill. Euros) 619 · 80 Private sector Technology Centres: 16 (%) R&D Spending distribution Companies: 64 · 17 Universities · 3 Public Research Organisms Projects of companies in the machine tools sector (Basque Country) in the 5th and 6th Framework programmes of the European Union 43 Sources: EUSTAT y AFM. BASQUE COUNTRY A.R. SPANISH STATE EUROPEAN UNION Spending % GDP 1.49 0.96 1.90 Business spending % GDP 1.2 0.53 1.14* Personal FTE/Active population ‰ 11.5 7.1 9.5 Personal FTE/Active population ‰ 6.1 4.4 5 Source: Eustat 2001, INE 2001 and Eurostat 1999 2000* Industrial and Economic Infrastructure ACEDE (Electrical Household Appliances) ACICAE (Automotive Sector) ACLIMA (Environment) ADINDE (Basque Maritime Forum) AFM (Machine Tools) CLUSPAP (Paper Cluster) Driving clusters Energy Cluster Knowledge Cluster GAIA (Electronics, Computing and Telecommunications) HEGAN (Aeronautic and Aerospace Industry) UNIPORT (Cluster of the Port of Bilbao) Companies located in Technology Parks (No.) 260 Industrial Estates (No.) 72 Companies using the Internet in their daily management