Lufthansa joins the technological fever and doubles its workforce in Valencia

2023-04-23 16:56:14

Luthansa has joined the fever of technology companies They are betting heavily on Valencia and have doubled their workforce in recent months. The German multinational airline landed in June in the capital of Túria with its subsidiary Aviatar with which it monitors the planes. The company started its operations in Valencia with around twenty developers and architects from software and now he is going to move to some flexible offices of the wayCo company in El Cabanyal for his team of “up to forty people”. In recent months, multinationals such as Hitachi, HP, the industrial consortium formed by Toshiba and Mitsubishi (Tmeic), Siemens Mobility and Volkswagen have landed in Valencia with the gigafactory of batteries for electric cars.

Lufthansa Technik (LHT) (a division of the airline specializing in aircraft maintenance) launched the company Aviatar in 2016. The tech firm based in Valencia is an independent platform of digital products and services ranging from predictive maintenance to automated solutions. Aviatar combines fleet management solutions, data science and engineering expertise to offer a range of integrated digital products and services for airlines,

The Investment Office of the City Council helped the German company Lufthansa Technik in the selection process of Valencia as the destination city for the new Aviatar headquarters. It also facilitated the connection of the platform with the talent cradles of the capital, the City of Innovation of the Polytechnic University and the Science Park of the University of Valencia. The company chose Valencia for its leading universities and its growing ecosystem of technology companies, and as an ideal place to grow internationally, with a growing technology scene with more than 900 start-ups, multiple incubators and community events, creating opportunities for future collaborations.

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The rush of tech companies which in recent months have opened offices andn Valencia with the aim of growing strongly The hiring of computer engineers and programmers has skyrocketed. As an example, Hitachi plans to double the workforce of its company in Valencia software GlobalLogic in four years to reach 1,000 jobs. The multinational has established the GlobalLogic operations center in Spain in Valencia. The technology firm has just landed in the capital of Túria with 500 engineers and computer scientists who worked for the company in the Ukraine and who have left the country because of the war. The company has opened a second office in Malaga and is going to expand its activity to Madrid and Tarragona, but has decided that the center of reference in southern Europe is Valencia.