He expansion project facilities of Hitachi In Cordoba was declared yesterday by the Municipal Council as “project of special interest for the city“. This formula, identical to that approved by the Council, aims to reduce the time necessary for significant actions to complete all the necessary administrative procedures and then be able to materialize.
In the case of Hitachi, as recalled in the file that the Local Government Board gave the green light this Monday, the figures are convincing: 80 million of investment; THE “waiting» that the expansion generates for this industrial giant “additional revenues worth 135 million per year” which is a job creation estimated “75 jobs during construction and later in the operation phase of the facilities.
The municipal council appoints a civil servant as coordinator of this project special interest. This figure seeks reduce ordinary delays paperwork. This does not affect resource deadlines or tendering or tax processes.
Resolution and notification times are cut in half. THE licenses -a fundamental aspect in the development of investments- fall under the time limit it can be shorten. Hitachi will develop its expansion until 2027. Once completed, it will have an additional 30,000 square meters.
Manufacturing of new products
A notable element of this initiative is that this investment will allow new products in the Cordoba factory; in particular, the power reactors that Hitachi currently manufactures only in Sweden. Córdoba will become the second factory in Europe to carry out such a project.
Reactances have a important use in the floors of renewable -a sector in full emergency-. It is used to compensate for energy fluctuations that may occur when supplying the electricity network.
