HEGAN Basque Aerospace Cluster

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Contact

JUEZ LANGARA, Jose
Parque Tecnologico, 303
48170 – Zamudio (Basque Country)  - SPAIN
+34 (0)944 31 89 87
+34 (0)944 31 79 76
hegan(at)hegan.com

Website

www.hegan.aero

HEGAN – Basque Aerospace Cluster

Asociación Cluster de Aeronautica y Espacio del Pais Vasco, HEGAN

Cluster Description

Facts & Figures

Number of companies 36 Members (5 non SME, 28 SMEs and 3 R&D Organizations)
Number of employees More than 10,500 direct employees in all the facilities around the world
Number of research institutes 11 (with aerospace activities)
Other cluster members Universities, Basque Government, etc.
   

Cluster Management

Organizational form Non-profit Private Association
Financing Member fees, and public funding from other sources and grants (30/70)
   

Main Actors

Main industry actors
  • AERNNOVA (Founder): Tier1, Complete Subsystems for Aerostructures (Sections, Wings...)
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  • ITP (Founder): Tier1, Complete Subsystems for Engines
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  • SENER (Founder): Engineering and Subassemblies for Aerostructures, Engines, Space and Systems & Equipment
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  • ALESTIS: Tier1, Complete Subsystems for Aerostructures
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  • ACITURRI: Tier1, Complete Subsystems for Aerostructures, and Engines components manufacturing
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    Main research institutes
  • CTA - Aeronautical Technology Centre: Tier1 for testing and certification, with 3 sites for Aerostructures, Engines and HALT tests
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  • TECNALIA: R&D Corporation with 4 R&D Centres with Aerospace activities
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  • IK4 – R&D Corporation with 6 R&D Centres with Aerospace activities
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    Cluster Competences and Strategy

    Strengths & Competences

    As Association, HEGAN is first Regional Aerospace Cluster in Spain (1997) and since then it works to provide answers to the strategic challenges of the sector through cooperation.

    As industry, our members main strength is the correct choose of partners, clients and programmes, balancing and diversifying the products and services they supply with a multi-client, multi-product and multi-segment view.

    Science & Research

    As association, we are not involved in R&D projects, but we coordinate the R&D-Cluster-Committee where the members work in collaborative projects.

    As industry and R&D Centres, our members are involved in R&D projects at all levels: regional, national and European; individual and collective; research, development and innovation; engineering, processes, materials and testing... They invested an annual average of 16% over sales in R&D during the last 15 years.

    International Collaboration

    As association, we try to help our members setting up relationships with clients and other associations. Organising missions and trade-fairs.

    As industry, our Members are working for almost every main aerospace client supplying products and services for almost every main programme in the world. Our Members foreign facilities add up to 17 (Brazil, Malta, México, Romania, UK, USA), out of a total of 129 (64 in the Basque Country, and 48 in the rest of Spain).

    Main Challenges

    Innovation, effective supply chain, diversification, everything through cooperation.