Ingedetec opens Tangier engineering office

Juan José Marcos, CEO of Barcelona-based Ingedetec, has opened a technical office in Tangier, Morocco, committing €230,000 to the operation. Of that total, €80,000 came from an ACCIÓ grant disbursed under Catalonia's Multilocation: New Foreign Subsidiaries programme.

Ingedetec sells engineering design and development services, electrical architecture, lighting, battery systems, bumpers, and interior and exterior vehicle components, to automotive, railway, and aeronautical manufacturers and Tier-1 suppliers, taking projects from conceptual design through to final validation. It competes in Morocco with TRIGO Group, which has operated there since 2012 with more than 500 professionals across Kenitra, Tangier, and Casablanca, and with Airtificial Group, which signed agreements for intelligent production-line design in Morocco in January 2026. Ingedetec's structural position is geographic triangulation: its headquarters sits adjacent to the SEAT/CUPRA complex in Martorell, its German office has been embedded in the Audi and BMW supplier corridor since 2014, and Tangier now adds a third node inside Morocco's scaling automotive ecosystem. Spanish companies already account for 27.4% of firms in Morocco's automotive auxiliary sector, giving Ingedetec a ready-made network of compatible clients that a non-Iberian entrant would need years to cultivate.

The logistics context reinforces the commercial logic. Tangier's supplier ecosystem sits within sub-48-hour trucking distance of Spain, meaning Ingedetec's Catalan headquarters and its new office can operate as same-week logistics partners for shared clients crossing the Strait of Gibraltar.

Ingedetec was founded in 2005, employs 220 people worldwide, and closed 2025 with a global turnover of €10 million. Currently only 8% of its sales go to exports, concentrated within the EU, a thin international base for a firm that has held a German presence for over a decade. The Tangier move is its lowest-friction path to non-EU export volume given the existing Spanish supplier density in Morocco.

The firm projects a 50% increase in global exports and a 5% rise in overall revenue within the first year of the Tangier operation. It plans to hire between six and ten local professionals in an initial phase and expects to begin capturing Moroccan projects by 2027.

"A strategic step to continue growing, take advantage of the already consolidated industrial environment and reinforce proximity to the main companies in the sector." — Juan José Marcos, CEO.

The broader signal is the grant instrument itself. ACCIÓ co-funded a Morocco market entry for under €100,000 in public money at the precise moment its Casablanca office is registering accelerating interest from Catalan companies seeking a North African foothold. That combination, a live proof-of-concept, a replicable grant programme, and a logistics corridor that makes Morocco operationally adjacent to Catalonia, compresses the perceived risk for any Catalan industrial services SME watching this move.

Ingedetec now operates across four countries. What the Tangier office actually unlocks is the ability to follow the same automotive or aerospace client from design studio in Barcelona or Munich to production floor in Morocco without ever changing engineering partner.