Andalucia, a Clúster aerospace of big potential

With more than one hundred years of history and tradition in the aeronautical sector component manufacturing sector component manufacturing sector, Andalucia is for the time being an important pole aerospacial European, a sector of present and of future that in the last decade has known to take advantage of the installation of the FAL of the To400M, (one the three big lines of final setting of aeroplanes in Europe) and the participation in other big aeronautical sector component manufacturing sector component manufacturing programs international to promote a remarkable and progressive growth in terms of turnover, employment, innovation and competitiveness.

In this period the Clúster aeronautical sector component manufacturing sector component manufacturing sector component manufacturing Andalusian has multiplied by three the volume of sales until reaching the almost 2.000 million euros and, also the employment, with more than 11.000 workers, every time of greater qualification. At present it represents 17% of the industrial GDP manufacturero Andalusian and 1,28% of the global GDP in the community, what has carried him to turn into one of the strategic productive focuses more important in the regional economy and in one of the main aeronautical sector component manufacturing sector component manufacturing poles Europeans, after Toulouse and Hamburg.

Andalucia, through the axis Seville-Cádiz, is possibly the enclave that has some greater possibilities of growth for the next years thanks to the bet decided that it comes realizar by part of all the actors involved in the sector (companies, administration, social agents and University), and to the solid bases with which explains to follow promoting his development.

These fortresses compose of a solid business structure, articulated around the Clúster Propeller, and sustained on the main tractor trucks in Andalucia and Spain, Airbus and Airbus Military, with the presence of three Tier One specialised in aeroestructuras (Alestis, Aernnova and Aciturri), and an auxiliary industry with big experience and increasing specialisation in fields of big projection like electronics equipment dealers equipment dealers and aviónica, new materials or systems no tripulados.

Likewise, has of a wide and advanced network of infrastructures of business support and to the R&D, like the Aerospace Technological Park of Andalucia Aerópolis and the Technological Park Tecnobahía or the Centre Advanced of Aerospace Technologies (CATEC). In this network also situate other centres of excellence linked to the aeronautical sector component manufacturing sector component manufacturing activity, like the Centre of Simulators of Flight and Learning of Crews, the new installations of experimentation and essays with aerial systems no tripulados, ATLAS in Jaén (that it will be operative to finals of year or principles of 2014) and the project CEUS in Huelva.

Explains also with a big human capital, gone out of the Andalusian universities, and with lines of leading investigation developed by equipment very qualified in his Schools of Engineers and in public organisms of investigation (OPIs). And finally, has a leaf of clear route, an aerospace programme of action for the next years consensuado with all the agents involved in the sector and that establishes the new aims and challenges of face to the future.

Are, therefore, in front of a sector, the one of the aeronautical sector component manufacturing sector component manufacturing industry, that in spite of the economic crisis, resists, continues growing of form sustained, and the most important, knows what does and what has to do, and account for this with the best bazas to follow situating to Andalucia like one of the poles aerospaciales international more notable and of potential elder for the next years.