Seat has obtained five new products to save its El Prat component plant, where manual gearboxes for combustion vehicles are manufactured, whose production is going to be progressively reduced until it disappears. The factory, with some 900 employees, thus begins its transformation towards the electric vehicle.
Specifically, it has been awarded the production of the differential, the knuckle, the E-Box for the battery, the KMM -battery cooling module-, and the aluminum for the motor of the electric vehicle that will begin to be manufactured in Martorell from 2025.
According to the company chaired by Wayne Griffiths, with this reconversion a further step is taken to turn Spain into an electric mobility hub for Europe and in the transformation of Seat itself into a benchmark for new mobility.
“The award of new components reaffirms the commitment of Seat and the Volkswagen group to job stability and the search for alternatives that ensure the future of Seat Components as part of the transformation process in which all the component plants in the The collaboration of the workers and their union representatives is being key for this process to be giving results”, highlighted Markus Haupt, Vice President of Production and Logistics.
Seat Componentes is one of the three production centers of the automobile company in Spain, together with Martorell and Barcelona (Zona Franca). The El Prat plant had aspired to manufacture an electric motor, but Hungary’s candidacy prevailed.
The announcement of new products for El Prat comes one day after the company raised with the works council the need to extend the current ERTE (temporary employment regulation file) that affects Martorell and the Free Trade Zone until the end of March due to to the persistence of component shortages. The ERTE affects 10,300 workers.
