# Coats opens new Gotex plant in Lliçà, Barcelona as telecom infrastructure centre of excellence

Coats Group opened a new Centre of Excellence plant for Telecom Infrastructure in Lliçà, Barcelona, investing around EUR 5 million. The plant is nearly three times larger than the previous Gotex facility in Sabadell and will focus on telecom, energy, and composites products.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2022-07-20
- Where: Lliçà, Barcelona, Spain
- Value: $5.10M (5.00M EUR)
- Jobs: 130
- Starts operating: 20 Jul 2022
- Status: completed
- Capacity: 13,000 m2
- Products: coated fibreglass yarn, telecom infrastructure products, energy composites
- Sectors: [Industrial Textiles](https://endata.com/sectors/industrial-textiles.md), [Electrical Equipment](https://endata.com/sectors/electrical-equipment.md)

## Companies

- [Coats](https://endata.com/companies/23765.md)
- [Gotex](https://endata.com/companies/64224.md) (partner)

## Sources

- [coats.com](https://www.coats.com/en/news/2022/07/coats-opens-new-gotex-plant-as-centre-of-excellence-for-telecom-infrastructure/), 2022-07-20: "Coats has invested around 5 million euros into this project."

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