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The Principality pressures Corteva to sell the Tamón factory

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Corteva is being pressured by the regional government of Asturias, Spain, to sell its phytosanitary plant in the Tamón valley rather than close it, with the company stating it will evaluate the option of a transfer.

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The Corteva factory in the Tamón valley / Ricardo Solís Pablo Castaño The regional Government does not want the activity of the phytosanitary plant in the Tamón valley (Carreño) to die definitively and is pressuring the multinational Corteva to transfer the factory to another operator. The American company considers it "unviable" to maintain the production of picoxystrobin, an active ingredient used to manufacture fungicides, in Tamón, and has just agreed to an ERE with the workforce (with 28 early retirements, 19 reassignments, and 21 layoffs) to close the facilities of the former DuPont phytosanitary plant. The regional Government does not want industrial activity to be lost in the Tamón complex and, before the agreement between the company and workers was reached, meetings had already taken place between members of the Executive and the company to seek an alternative to dismantling. "It is a chemical synthesis plant that we want to resume its activity; it would be of interest to everyone," said Borja Sánchez, Minister of Science, Industry, and Employment, who highlighted that the factory has "environmental permits to use chlorine or phosgene, which are currently practically impossible to obtain in the European Union." He considers this a relevant factor for attracting potential buyers. "Ideally, the factory should be sold and another company should operate it. We will...

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Tamón, Asturias, Spain

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Jul 25, 2026
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