KEYTER INTARCON GENAQ laid the foundation stone on 3 February 2023 for a new refrigeration and air conditioning plant in Lucena, Córdoba, with an investment of over EUR 30 million and 600 direct jobs expected by 2025.

Germany's Lauda Ultracool opened a new production plant of nearly 5,000 m2 in Terrassa, Catalonia, with a €7 million investment and 30 new jobs, including an R&D centre. The plant is expected to triple the company's turnover by 2026; the project was supported by ACCIÓ.

Rheinmetall won an order worth €80 million from an unnamed global automotive system partner to supply an electric air conditioning compressor for electric vehicles, with production starting in 2023 at its plant in Abadiano, Spain.

As part of its 2021-2025 strategic plan, INTARCON plans to build a new production plant of 20,000 square metres of factory and office space to optimise manufacturing service.

Spanish HVAC and refrigeration manufacturer INTARCON appointed Germán Gil, former business development director for the Americas, as its commercial director to support its 2021-2025 strategic plan.

Lauda Ultracool, which makes industrial recirculating chillers, has started building a new EUR 7 million factory at 316 Carretera de Rubí, Terrassa, to replace its current site. The plant is expected to be finished by late 2021 and operating in early 2022.

Soldatal, parent of SDT Air, signed a sale agreement to acquire the machining production unit of the FES Technology Centre in Ripoll, Girona. The site adds 1,400 m2 of plant space for SDT Air's capacity expansion.