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Alava has a wide
offer of industrial floor space promoted by both the Diputación
Foral (Provincial Council) as well as by the various urban and
rural town councils.
The offer of floor
space promoted by the Diputación is made through the society
ALAVA AGENCIA DE DESARROLLO, S.A. (Alava Development Agency) and
includes 3.000.000 m2 spread over the whole province in industrial
estates at Araia, Casablanca, Gojain, Jundiz, Lantarón,
Murga, Nanclares and Santa Cruz. These industrial estates are
urbanised and have electricity, natural gas and water supplies
and purification.
The Diputación
is also involved in making industrial units available for small
and medium-sized companies, via the Elkartegiak and Industrialdeak.
In both cases this deals with modular buildings which include
a range of common services and industrial premises of varying
sizes. There are currently two elkartegiak (Araya y Llodio) and
eight industrialdeak (Ayala, Salvatierra, Amurrio, Nanclares,
Campezo, Laguardia, Llodio and Legutiano).
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The Alava Technology
Park, located only 5 km. from Vitoria-Gasteiz, offers an unsurpassable
framework for housing businesses characterised by their use of
advanced technologies, development of innovations or intensive
R+D activities.
Its preferred sectors
of activity are: aeronautics, energy, telecommunications, environmental
technology, electronics, industrial automation, agro-alimentation,
new materials, information technology, opto- electronics and social
welfare technology.
The Park is situated
in a privileged spot. As more than half of its 117 hectares of
surface area have been given over to wooded and green areas. The
urbanisation has been carried out with aesthetics in mind and
with respect to the environment.
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The Technology
Centre is situated within the Technology Park and is made up of
the Technology Development Centre LEIA and the centres for Energy
and Aeronautic Technologies.
The Technology
Development Centre LEIA, which has recently been accorded Training
Centre status within the Basque Government's Technology Network,
is concentrating its efforts on environmental research, although
it also offers technological services in other areas in connection
with testing and quality assurance.
The Aeronautical
Technology Centre focuses its work on carrying out validity and
behaviour tests for structures and interiors of aircraft.
For their part
the Energy Technologies Centre are soon to start research work
in areas such as acclimatisation, combustion, alternative energy,
energy in productive processes and comfort within buildings.
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Alava
Business and Innovation Centre (CEIA)
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The Alava Business
and Innovation Centre (CEIA), at its new location within the Alava
Technology Park, helps new enterprises to develop their projects.
This assistance focuses on two areas: consultancy and logistics.
On the consultancy side, CEIA collaborates in project feasibility
studies and guides studies in the technical, production, commercial
and financial areas in the right direction. On the logistics side,
CEIA offers its installations, buildings, offices and other central
services which will allow projects to get off the ground.
The CEIA is a centre
approved by the European Union and integrated into the European
Community Business & Innovation Centre (BIC).
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Vitoria
Transport Centre (CTV)
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Vitoria Transport
Centre (VTC) has all the services needed by a modern and flexible
transport centre, in addition to buildings for storage or use
by transport agencies. The VTC's services include: customs, bank,
lorry parking, bonded warehouse, hotel, restaurant, workshops,
service station, vehicle cleaning and an integrated computer centre
holding load information and linked to other European transport
centres. The Vitoria Transport Centre (CTV) is to be found located
in a strategic place alongside the airport at Foronda-Vitoria,
the new RENFE (state railway organisation) freight station, the
N-1 primary road and the motorway to the port of Bilbao, resulting
in inter-modality and connections to any market.
The Centre has
buildings destined to be used by transport and storage agencies
as well as all the services needed for a modern and flexible transport
centre such as customs, a bank, lorry parking, bonded warehouse,
hotel, restaurant, workshops, service station, vehicle cleaning
and an integrated computer centre handling load information and
linked to other European transport centres.
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Vitoria
International Airport (VIA)
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One of the aims
of the Vitoria International Airport Society (VIA) is to promote
the Vitoria-Foronda Airport. The Society is concentrating its
efforts on attracting new freight traffic and logistical activities
as well as industries which need to be situated alongside the
airport's runways.
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