Following today’s announcement of the planned expansion by the Hierros Alfonso group, the Minister of Economy, Industry and Employment, Marta Gastón, highlighted the “drag effect” that such recent business investments can have for other companies in logistics platforms, and particularly in Huesca, “Investments like Hierros Alfonso in Plhus motivate other companies to look at our platforms”, she said.
Gastón underlined the importance of the investment of Hierros Alfonso both for the Logistics Platform in Huesca (Plhus) and for the city and surrounding area itself, and stressed that “Logistics is the future of Aragon; it is the strategic sector that will give the Community the economic weight it deserves.” She also announced the official presentation of the Aragon Logistics Platforms project on April 5, which will unify the management and marketing of the Aragonese platforms, in addition to the reopening of Canfranc.
Hierros Alfonso has decided to expand its industrial facilities in the Upper Aragon capital, by acquiring a plot of 10,000m2 on the Plhus Platform, where it will build on 6,000m2. This is twice the surface area of the building that Hierros Huesca currently occupies in the Sepes industrial estate.
The project will allow Hierros Alfonso to invest in new technologies, have the most up-to-date machinery and expand its workforce which, at the Huesca plant – specialising in the production of steel bars – is 21 workers, plus 3 recent additions for a double shift, following the need to increase production that led them to move to Plhus within 18 months. The total workforce of the group is 135 with its 6 industrial companies and 6 distributors located in the 3 provinces.
The announcement came a day after the Minister of Economy participated in the inauguration of another emblematic industrial facility for Huesca in Plhus, when she revealed that “there are other companies interested in the portfolio”; although discretion is required for the Administration until these operations are confirmed.
Gastón insisted, however, on the attraction that industrial implementations have for other companies. Regarding Plhus, she explained that the road connection to the city that employers have been requesting since the start of the Platform will be completed once the project has been modified to accommodate a double lane. This is the same as the goods railroad siding, which is being reinforced – she explained – due to the link with Europe for the reopening of Canfranc’s international line.
Finally, the director revealed that the Aragon Logistics Platform strategy, announced by the Aragon President, Javier Lambán, at the State of the Community Debate will be publicly presented on April 5. The unification of the management and marketing of the Aragonese platforms provides a future, she concluded, “that all the maritime ports in our country are looking at.”
