EIPC joins ACICAE, the first automotive cluster in Europe.

We have recently received confirmation of EIPC’s acceptance as a Full Member of ACICAE, the Basque Automotive Cluster. This agreement demonstrates EIPC Group’s long-term vision and commitment to its environment, and demonstrates our desire for maximum integration and strengthening of economic, business and institutional relations in the Basque Country

Basque automotive components sector is one of the most competitive and innovative in the world. Its management levels are highly advanced, with a high degree of effectiveness and efficiency in all its processes.

Automotive sector is made up of 300 companies with a turnover of more than 20 billion euros and employs more than 120,000 people worldwide, 40,000 of which are in the Basque Country.

As an association, ACICAE’s mission is to dynamise the Basque automotive sector, enabling cooperation between companies in our territory and being able to provide a joint response to the major challenges facing the automotive sector.

The areas of activity on which the association focuses its work are:

• Strategy
• Internationalisation
• R&D
• Management-Quality
• Training
• Communication

Basque companies identify the need to increase the added value of their products by increasing their design, prototyping, validation and advanced manufacturing capabilities.

In this sense, companies such as EIPC are committed to the research of new processes and the permanent updating of our quality systems and constant training in order to obtain
metal parts with improved properties in terms of formability and strength/weight to offer better performance for their final application in the vehicle.