This morning, Galician Innovation Department director Patricia Argerey and Galician Institute of Economic Development director Fernando Guldrís visited Ordes multinational Internaco, which markets forestry, agricultural and gardening machinery.
Ordes, 3 June 2022.- This morning, Galician Innovation Department director Patricia Argerey and Galician Institute of Economic Development (Igape) director Fernando Guldrís visited the headquarters of the Internaco company in Ordes, where they learned about the multinational’s growth plans, especially in terms of incorporating innovation and sustainability.
Patricia Argerey highlighted the importance of innovation for growth and the creation of business models that provide differentiated added value—something that is especially relevant in services, distribution and marketing sectors such as Internaco’s. Its commitment to innovation is evidenced by multiple R&D&I projects in the area of sustainability and digitization, which are cementing the firm’s future growth.
At the same time, Fernando Guldrís underscored Internaco’s efforts to grow its presence in new markets, for which it has the aid of Igape in the field of internationalization, as well as other means of support for procuring competitive improvement services or even access to direct loans to finance new company equipment.
The Internaco Group, which has been operating for over 45 years, specializes in the distribution of agricultural, forestry and gardening machinery, and recently entered the DIY sector. In the area of innovation, it implements the Sustainovation Hub – Forest and Garden project, with which it accelerated the evolution of battery-powered gasoline machines and the transition from mechanical to digital and from manual to automated or robotic tools by applying technologies such as the Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence to its products. Its goal is to create products and commercial models that are more respectful towards the environment and have a positive social impact, in collaboration with its partners and suppliers in the areas of design, development and testing of the different products.
With more than 220 direct employees and a 112-million-euro turnover in 2021, Internaco has logistics centres in Ordes, Ourense, Jaén and Madrid and subsidiaries in Portugal (Porto), Morocco (Casablanca), the US (Livermore, California) and Mexico (Zelaya).
