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The foreign companies operating in the Valencian Region are shown below:
CESSNA
Cessna Aircraft is a company of Textron, USA, dedicated to the manufacture of a wide range of aircraft for private, commercial and defense´s aviation. With an investment of 40 million euros it created a maintenance base jet at the airport of Valencia. It expects to serve more than a thousand jet aircraft of the Citation series operating in the European area and the Mediterranean Sea.
CETCO
AMCOL International Corp. USA owns CETCO Iberia, based in Valencia region. The company produces bentonite linings for protection, waterproofing and sealing for large civil engineering projects. This heavy cargo expedition and its international delivery take advantage from the close and dynamic port of Valencia.
FRANZ SCHNEIDER
German company manufacturer of plastic components for dashboards, car consoles and interior shots. With 40 years in Valencia, in the Ford providers park in Almussafes, employs 500 people, becoming one of the largest companies in the Valencia region.
ANALOG DEVICES
This American company is one of the most long-lived semiconductor companies in the world. The company headquarters is in Massachusetts ; and has factories in Limerick (Ireland ) and the Philippines and its development centers are in Israel, Beijing , Shanghai, Tokyo, Taipei, Edinburgh, Melbourne, Bangalore and others.
Since 2005 the company has a design center located in Valencia ( Spain ) . This center designs microprocessors for industry, aviation, defense and other fields of high quality standards. In 2015 they expanded their facilities due to its growth in Valencia.
SRG GLOBAL
Global SRG belongs to the Guardian group (USA). With the headquarters in Detroit (Michigan), they settled in Lliria (Valencia) in 1998 and 2009 in Ibi ( Alicante).
SRG Global is one of the leading manufacturers in the world of plastic parts for the automotive sector. With a workforce of over 800 workers in its two plants in the region are committed to continue to invest in expanding its facilities and increasing its workforce in the coming years.
FORD ESPAÑA
FORD España was founded in 1974 and began production of cars and engines in 1976. The Ford Motor Company has a major car and engine assembly plant, located in Almussafes in the southern edge of Valencia. From a surface viewpoint, with its 2.700.000 sqm, it is the Ford´s largest single site world-wide. In Valencia, Ford currently employ almost 9.000 people of different professional profiles, increasing along the years, and have a capacity to manufacture up to 460.000 vehicles per annum (2.130 units daily). Ford exports the 80% of the production of this plant to 75 countries, including the United States.
OBEIKAN
Saudi Arabian OBEIKAN group produces high-quality packaging for food industry. Dozens of laser machines give shape to each component accurately. The company also designs and manufactures the required equipment for automatic assembly following customer requirements. The product is intended for segments of quality and high added value. The aim is to enhance the good image of food they contain as well as healthier reciclability properties.
CHILWORTH
Chilworth belongs to DEKRA group, Germany. It provides engineering services to manage industrial safety as well as environmental risks prevention. They detect critical points in order to propose corrective measures, after a thorough analysis. A portfolio of important customers abroad attests its level of excellence among chemical and petroleum industries. It is one of the companies benefitting of human resources trained in the Polytechnic University of Valencia.
UBE CORPORATION
UBE is a leading Japanese group in chemical industry. It is based in the region of Valencia as the headquarter for European and Latin American operations. It also produces substances related to caprolactam, nylon and other engineering plastics. The Japanese group acquired an existing plant in the nineties. Since then it has been improving and enlarging its product range. Installations and infrastructures occupy a vast extent of land with modern