Baxiroca unveils the largest solar panel manufacturing plant in Spain

Castellbisbal (ACN).– The Catalan company Baxiroca, specialised in manufacturing heating solutions, has unveiled the largest solar energy panel’s fabrication centre in Spain. With this move, Baxiroca hopes to become Europe’s major supplier. The plant has cost 4 million euros and will export 80% of its production. This following year it will incorporate a system of automatic production that will allow for the production of 150,000 square meters of solar panels per year.

The group BDR Thermea, owner of Baxiroca, firmly backs the plant of Castellbisbal, on the outskirts of Barcelona. The company has expanded the factory and has turned it into a new excellency centre in the field of solar thermal energy. The plant has been built with the aim of becoming the major export brand in Spain within solar panel industry. It currently exports 80% of the production in countries like France, Germany or Portugal. “We also expect to open new markets in South America”, said director-general Jordi Mestres.

Mestres has also explained that the company wants to keep innovating and developing sustainable energy. Baxiroca is also advancing towards a new efficient heating model, based on the integration of technologies such as “micro-cogeneration” which grants the generation of domestic electricity reducing CO₂ emissions. 

At present, the BDR Thermea group has sales of 1,800 million euros and has 6,400 employees throughout Europe, 300 of whom are working for Baxiroca.