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Per Mara Bianchetti -December 15, 2020
With investments of US $ 3.5 billion over the next six years, the Industrial Airport located in Confins, in the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte (RMBH), will house a group of industries for lithium batteries, components and electric vehicles.
This is the Colossus Cluster Minas Gerais, which brings together eight companies from Silicon Valley, which saw in the State a propositional and convergent ecosystem to their proposals and projects within the so-called green economy.
This is what explains the CEO of ArqBravo Group In, Eduardo Javier Muñoz. “Our choice to invest in Minas Gerais has a lot to do with the State's positioning as a center for attracting investments, innovation and technology. We have found a very purposeful and very helpful ecosystem that has facilitated the processes. Brazil, naturally, due to the size of the market, was already one of the markets our companies wanted in Latin America, and Minas stood out for these and other reasons, such as the automotive chain it houses ”, he detailed.
According to him, the intention is to start the installation works at the industrial airport in the second half of 2021. Operations are scheduled for 2022. For this purpose, negotiations with BH Airport, the concessionaire that manages the site, are already underway.
“The decision is made, we have already signed the investment intention agreement and now the teams are working on advancing the project and subsequent execution. We will start in an area of 46 hectares, but we will be able to reach 100 hectares, as the project includes expansion areas ”, he said.
At the site, companies specializing in the manufacture of items for decarbonisation will produce lithium batteries and their components, as well as electric vehicles for transporting people and goods, such as taxis, vans and buses. The productive capacity of the cluster , according to the executive, will be 35 gigawatts in batteries.
“What these batteries will become will depend on the market more than on us. Demand is growing as the world is moving towards the green economy. Both in Europe and in the United States, tens of billions of dollars are being allocated to the area, which today is even seen as an exit from the economic crisis imposed by the pandemic, not to mention mitigating the climate crisis, ”he added.
Local partners - In addition to companies from Silicon Valley, Colossus Cluster Minas Gerais will also have local partners. The intention, according to Muñoz, is to create an ecosystem for the development of industry 4.0, for him, the biggest revolution of recent times.
“An integrated industry requires technologies, a coalition of companies with different expertise and technologies and, why not, from different places. This is what we intend to do to change the reality of Brazilian cities and Latin America ”, he revealed. Thus, the items manufactured at the industrial airport will be sold to a large extent throughout the country, but also to Latin neighbors.
This is the first project with an industrial focus of the group in Brazil. But companies are also part of the EvShare Foundation, a foundation aimed at helping governments and corporations to decarbonize the environment. In this sense, a project to modernize and electrify the taxis in Belém do Pará is underway. In all, 1,100 cars will be replaced by state-of-the-art electric vehicles, security systems, digitalized payment and a modern application.
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