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King Philip VI will be in Pamplona on 19 November to deliver the gold medal of entrepreneurs
  • The Confederación Empresarial de Navarra awarded the gold medal to Manuel Torres Martínez, founder of the MTorres business group. MTorres manufactures, among others, fragments of warplanes (see their military aeronautical projects here). The king of Spain, Philip VI, will also come to the Act of Baluarte, on the morning of November 19, together with the president of Navarra, María Chivite.
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According to Pamplona today, the president of the Confederation of Business Organizations of Spain (CEOE), Antonio Garamendi Lecanda (member of a family of entrepreneurs from Getxo, advisor to companies such as Babcock & Wilcox, Albura, Electricity Network and Tubes United) will also be present.

Manuel Torres and MTorres

Natural from Murcia. He is currently a member of the Science and Technology Council of the Spanish Ministry of Industry and of the jury of the Prince of Asturias Prize for Science and Technology. He founded the MTorres group in 1975, which currently consists of six companies and 700 workers, and is dedicated to sectors such as aeronautics, paper industry and renewable energies.

Visit to Felipe VI.aren and Saudi Arabia businesses

In this chronicle of News of Navarre you can read how the king of Spain visited last year the headquarters of the company MTorres in Navarre and showed him his infrastructure and the work process. In this chronicle it is noteworthy that the machine exposed "Torresfiberlayup", for carbon fiber components, was manufactured for the company Taqnia, belonging to the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Funds. MTorres acknowledges on its website that "an intense commercial activity has started in Saudi Arabia".

The so-called Taqnia is closely related to the Vision 2030 program, and in this program El País announced that Spanish and Basque companies were interested in reporting the King’s controversial visit to Saudi Arabia in 2017.

 

In 2015 he gave him another Felipe prize VI.ak

The king awarded him the National Prize for Design and Innovation granted by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, according to the last paragraph of the financial means of this news item.