El Clúster

The Aragon Automotive Cluster —CAAR— is an Innovative Business Consortium (I.B.C.) whose main objective is to increase the degree of competitiveness among the companies through the promotion of co-operation, project development and joint ventures, improving the image and international visibility of its members and, in general, performing all those activities that contribute to the improvement of results and activity development within the members of the Cluster.

The Aragon Automotive Cluster was legally constituted on 26 March 2008. Initially, the Cluster comprised 14 companies and 6 bodies from Aragon. Today, this non-profit organisation comprises 28 partners.

The idea of forming a Cluster in the automotive sector in Aragon was in the minds of the main players in the Aragon economy: the Chamber of Commerce and Aragon Abroad had noticed a certain concern among companies and the Aragon Institute of Technology (AIT) - during a diagnosis of the car component suppliers sector (end of 2006) - identified this possibility as a lever to improving sector competitiveness.

In 2007, prior to the formal creation of the Cluster, as an initial step and with the involvement of over 50 companies from the sector, the CAAR Strategic Plan was created - qualified as excellent by the Ministry of Industry - and this allowed for the acquisition of the qualification as an Innovative Business Consortium (I.B.C.).