A competitive boost for the motor industry

The Spanish automobile industry is relying on ACCIONA Service for process improvement. Nissan, Volkswagen, SEAT, Ford, Renault and GM are just some of the major marques that draw on ACCIONA for the management and operation of ancillary services.

With the help of such multinationals, ACCIONA Service has expanded its range of activities to the automotive industry in 11 countries (Spain, Germany, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania and the United Kingdom) -creating over 2,500 jobs in the process. ACCIONA Service performs all kinds of non-core business activities that such automated factories requirefrom internal logistics, technical and industrial cleaning to facilities maintenance, catering, energy efficiency management, supply chain optimization, staff transport and vehicles, gardening and waste management, etc. The Company offers these services individually, but specializes in managing them together by applying the Facility Management methodology, an integrated management model that maximizes synergies.

ACCIONA Service has renewed until 2016 its contract for cleaning and waste management at plants owned by SEAT in Martorell, Nissan at Barcelona free port and Gearbox, creating over 400 jobs

The "Challenge" Project

An example of this is ACCIONA Service's participation in the "Challenge" project, developed by Nissan at its factory in Barcelona free port. In 2010, the plant managers proposed reducing vehicle unit production costs by 30% to improve competiveness and attract the production of new models to the factory. ACCIONA, which has been working with Nissan since 1990, dedicated itself to this objective, contributing by reducing costs by 20% in three years without any detrimental effect on quality; this was achieved in March 2013. For this, ACCIONA Service and Nissan trained a team of engineers to streamline processes and adjust costs while guaranteeing quality. In the first two years, costs could be optimized by 15% and the 20% target is forecast to be met by March 2014. The result has been a new order for a utility model to be made at the plant from 2014 onwards. Other flagship projects include Volkswagen Group's Autoeuropa factory in Portugal, at which ACCIONA Service carries out the end-to-end maintenance of the factory (this is a benchmark contract in this kind of services). Then there is the contract with General Motors to improve energy management for ten of its European plants. ACCIONA Service is designing tailored solutions for each plant, installing new equipment and maintaining their systems to guarantee energy savings and assure a return on investment in three years.