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Local development

Local development

The company is committed to creating value and stability in the local communities where it operates.

The company is committed to creating value and stability in the local communities where it operates.

All Aciturri industrial facilities have remained, since their start-up, in the location where they were originally created or incorporated into the Company: Miranda de Ebro since 1977, Tres Cantos and Boecillo since 2009, Alcalá de Guadaira since 2010, Miñano (Vitoria), Getafe, Seville, Puerto Real, El Puerto de Santa María and São José dos Campos (Brazil) since 2019, Rochefort (France) since 2022 and Casablanca (Morocco) since 2024.

The company also fosters economic activity and job creation beyond its own business operations. Examples of this include the initiatives carried out in various locations, which are described in the following paragraphs.

In previous years, factors such as international instability, rising raw material and energy prices, and supply chain difficulties—particularly in the aerospace industry—have slowed the recovery of demand and the workload. However, the company has continued to expand and has achieved a consistent sales growth for the fourth consecutive year, which has a positive impact on the local community.

1. Fundhas Apprentice

The Aciturri plant in São José dos Campos maintains its collaboration with the Fundhas Foundation (Hélio Augusto de Souza Foundation), through its Fundhas Apprentice program. This initiative offers young people between the ages of 16 and 22 the opportunity to grow and develop professionally in the local area, through employment contracts, with registration in the employment record book and all labour rights guaranteed, including minimum hourly wage, 13th salary, FGTS, holidays, meal allowance and transport allowance.

2. Industrial Technical Institute Foundation

The Comprehensive Vocational Training Center, which offers intermediate and advanced vocational training programs as well as supply-and-demand-based employment training, operates in Miranda de Ebro.

Ginés Clemente, founder of Aciturri, continues to lead the Foundation, which ensures the center’s sustainability and enables it to continue offering formal training while also enhancing training and services for businesses.

In 2025, ITM and Aciturri Aeroengines collaborated on the development of training programs with a commitment to hiring at Aciturri Aeroengines’ facilities in Miranda de Ebro.

3. Miranda de Ebro Technology Centre (CTME)

CTME is a technology center established in 1992 and supported by the non-profit CTME Foundation.

The CTME Foundation is comprised of some 40 companies in the Miranda de Ebro area and is privately managed. Ginés Clemente serves as chairman of the Foundation’s board of trustees.

The foundation’s objective is to help increase the competitiveness of local companies and their technological development through R&D&I activities.

Aciturri has helped develop and consolidate a business line in the aerospace sector at the center, which offers a wide range of services for the sector and sells both in Spain and in other European countries.

4. Polo Positivo

Polo Positivo is an accelerator for industrial projects. It is an initiative launched by Fundación Caja de Burgos, Fundación Tomás Pascual y Pilar Gómez-Cuétara, Gonvarri, Grupo Antolín and Aciturri, which have also been joined by Hiperbaric, Grupo Cropu and Correa.

In 2025, Aciturri renewed its commitment to this initiative to promote industrial entrepreneurship in Burgos through the LideraMdo, Impulso Pyme, IMÁN de ideas and Desafío Industrial programs.

5. Family Business in the Classroom

Since 2018, Aciturri has participated in this initiative of the Family Business Association, whose objective is to reinforce content related to business and entrepreneurship included in the curricula of 6th year of Primary Education, 3rd and 4th year of Compulsory Secondary Education and 1st year of Baccalaureate.

The program includes actions that facilitate direct contact between students and teachers and family businesses, so that they can learn about their values and the role they play in the socio-economic environment in which they operate and promote entrepreneurial and business vocations among young people.

Aciturri collaborated again with this project in 2025 through the participation of the Company’s founder, Ginés Clemente, both in the visit to one of the participating schools and in the reception of students at the Company’s facilities.

6. Formula Student

In 2025, Aciturri renewed its sponsorship as Platinum sponsor of the Formula Student ARUS Andalucía Racing team (University of Seville) for the 2025-26 campaign. The main objective of this non-profit educational project is to promote training, talent and employability through active teaching methodologies in various areas of engineering, through the design and manufacture of Formula-type single-seaters and competition with other European universities.

The Aciturri team supports the students during the development of the project, through technical advice from Company professionals, the contribution of materials and products, and the transfer of use of its facilities for the manufacture of different carbon fiber components.

Thus, no significant actual or potential negative impacts on local communities are identified.