CIE Automotive Works with European Investment Bank to Advance Global Decarbonisation Strategy and Sustainable Manufacturing Investments

CIE Automotive Works with European Investment Bank to Advance Global Decarbonisation Strategy and Sustainable Manufacturing Investments

(IN BRIEF) CIE Automotive has secured advisory support from the European Investment Bank under the InvestEU Advisory Hub to accelerate decarbonisation across its worldwide operations. The collaboration includes a comprehensive roadmap toward carbon neutrality by 2050, outlining investments in energy efficiency, renewable electricity, and low-carbon manufacturing technologies. The initiative positions CIE Automotive among early adopters in Europe’s automotive sector working to transform climate strategies into actionable, investment-ready projects.

(PRESS RELEASE) LUXEMBOURG, 19-Feb-2026 — /EuropaWire/ — CIE Automotive has received advisory support from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to advance its decarbonisation strategy across global operations and supply chains. The assistance was delivered through EIB Advisory under the EU-wide Advisory Programme to Support Climate Action and Sustainability for Corporates, funded by the InvestEU Advisory Hub.

The advisory engagement included a detailed review of CIE Automotive’s Decarbonisation Plan, which sets out emissions-reduction targets and a pathway to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. The roadmap incorporates an assessment of baseline emissions, projections under business-as-usual scenarios, and the identification of operational and supply chain measures capable of accelerating emissions reductions.

Among the initiatives highlighted are investments in energy-efficiency improvements, adoption of low-carbon technologies, increased procurement of renewable electricity, deployment of electric furnaces, and sourcing of lower-carbon materials. With more than 100 manufacturing facilities spanning Europe, Asia, and the Americas, CIE Automotive aims to leverage its global footprint and integrated technological capabilities to implement sustainable manufacturing solutions within the automotive sector.

CIE Automotive is among a limited number of Spanish companies to receive this form of advisory assistance and is one of the early participants in Europe’s automotive industry to benefit from the InvestEU-backed programme. The initiative is designed to help companies translate climate strategies into concrete, finance-ready projects that deliver measurable environmental gains while strengthening industrial competitiveness.

The InvestEU Advisory Hub serves as a central access point for organisations seeking technical guidance, capacity building, and investment preparation linked to EU funding instruments. Acting as an implementing partner, EIB Advisory provides expertise to support both private and public sector entities in structuring viable sustainability-focused investments.

The collaboration between CIE Automotive and the EIB builds on a long-standing relationship that began in 2009, during which the Bank has supported the company’s research and development efforts to enhance innovation and global competitiveness.

Background Information

About the EIB Group

The European Investment Bank (ElB) Group is the financing arm of the European Union, owned by the 27 Member States, and one of the largest multilateral development banks in the world. In 2025, the EIB Group signed €100 billion of new financing and advisory services for over 870 high-impact projects in eight core priorities that support EU policy objectives: climate action and the environment, digitalisation and technological innovation, security and defence, territorial cohesion, agriculture and the bioeconomy, social infrastructure, strong global partnerships and the savings and investment union. Beyond long-term loans for large infrastructures, the EIB Group crowds-in private investment for high-risk innovative projects and businesses, with a growing role in Europe’s markets for venture debt, venture capital, guarantees and securitisations.

In Spain, the EIB Group has carried out financing and investment operations in 2025 totalling around €11 billion, which came alongside an additional €2.9 billion under the Regional Resilience Fund (NextGenerationEU loans).

The European Investment Fund (EIF) is the subsidiary of the EIB Group specialised in providing guarantees and equity to improve access to finance for small and medium size businesses and startups across Europe. Acting as an anchor investor, through its extensive network of partnering banks and investment funds, the EIF mobilizes private investment and nurtures the ecosystem of venture capital funds to support innovative European entrepreneurs.

In 2023, the EIF together with six member states (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands) launched the European Tech Champions Initiative, a fund of funds to scale-up innovative startups. This initiative has already enabled the creation of 12 13 European venture capital mega-funds and scaled up 38 companies, including 11 unicorns (with more than €1 billion in capital).

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EIB Advisory

In addition to financing, the EIB Group offers advisory services that help public and private clients develop markets, build capacity and support high-impact investment projects.  In 2025 EIB Advisory helped accelerate project delivery and crowd in finance for 179 operations inside and outside the European Union.

InvestEU

The InvestEU programme provides the European Union with long-term funding by leveraging substantial private and public funds in support of a sustainable recovery. It also helps to crowd in private investment for the European Union’s strategic priorities such as the European Green Deal and the digital transition. InvestEU brings all EU financial instruments previously available for supporting investments within the European Union together under one roof, making funding for investment projects in Europe simpler, more efficient and more flexible. The programme consists of three components: the InvestEU Fund, the InvestEU Advisory Hub, and the InvestEU Portal. The InvestEU Fund is deployed through implementing partners that will invest in projects using the EU budget guarantee of €26.2 billion. The entire budget guarantee will back the investment projects of the implementing partners, increase their risk-bearing capacity and thus mobilise at least €372 billion in additional investment.

About CIE Automotive

CIE Automotive is an industrial group specialized in high value-added processes.

It is a full service supplier for components, assemblies and sub-assemblies in the Automotive industry, with a whole range of different technologies (Aluminium, Metal Stamping & Tube Forming, Iron Casting, Machining, Plastic, Forging and Roof Systems) that enables the selection of the technology that fulfils better customers needs.

CIE Automotive designs and manufactures globally, in 10 R&D centers and 111 production sites distributed in 16 countries on 4 continents.

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SOURCE: European Investment Bank