CIE Automotive

What CIE Automotive does

CIE Automotive, S.A. is the listed parent of a Spanish industrial group that designs, manufactures and sells automotive components and subassemblies. Its registered office is at Alameda Mazarredo 69, eighth floor, Bilbao. Its parts go into vehicles made by different manufacturers; CIE is not a brand of complete cars.

This profile examines the consolidated group. Its figures include controlled companies in several countries and the relevant non-controlling interests; they do not describe Spanish operations alone. The Inyectametal plant pictured here is in Abadiño, separate from the Bilbao headquarters.

Sources: CIE Automotive 2025 consolidated accounts · CIE Automotive: Inyectametal location. 2025: p. 7; Appendix I.

From industrial integration to today’s group

The corporate history dates the project’s beginning to 1996, when INSSEC was created and invested in Corporación Industrial Egaña. CIE Automotive emerged as a group in 2002 through the integration of Egaña and Aforasa. These dates describe the formation of the business project, rather than the age of every factory subsequently acquired.

Expansion combines acquisitions, new factories and process development. Engrecon and Weidplas’s Brazilian business, subsequently renamed CIE Autometal Piracicaba, joined in 2025. Integrating these operations requires coordination of technology, customers, financial information and working conditions, beyond a common brand.

Sources: CIE Automotive: history and management team · CIE Automotive 2025 consolidated accounts. 2025: pp. 7–8.

Shareholders and the control perimeter

At year-end 2025, the accounts identified holdings of 16.05% for Acek Desarrollo y Gestión Industrial, 13.66% for Corporación Financiera Alba and 10.58% for Elidoza Promoción de Empresas. Acek’s 16.05% already includes its indirect holding through Risteel and must not be counted twice. The corporate governance report stated that no person or entity exercised or could exercise control under section A.8.

CIE Automotive India, itself listed, is part of the consolidated perimeter: the 2025 accounts show an indirect holding of 65.70%. Its separate listing does not make its sales additional revenue to add to the group total. Acek’s presence among shareholders likewise does not make CIE and Gestamp the same business.

Sources: CIE Automotive 2025 consolidated accounts · CIE Automotive 2025 corporate governance. 2025: p. 59, Appendix I; A.2, A.8.

Technologies, products and perimeter changes

The offering combines aluminium die casting, forging, stamping and tube forming, machining, plastics, iron casting and roof systems. Products serve transmission and brakes, engines and gearboxes, chassis and steering, interiors and exteriors. Combining materials and processes allows manufacturing to address different vehicle architectures and customer requirements.

The Aludec acquisition was agreed in December 2025 but was not consolidated at that year-end. Completion was disclosed to CNMV on 3 March 2026. It added decorative and brand-identification components, presented as Branding, the eighth technology in the current offering. Pro forma figures including Aludec must not replace the published 2025 consolidated accounts.

Sources: CIE Automotive: technologies and products · CIE Automotive 2025 consolidated accounts · CNMV: Aludec acquisition completion, 3 March 2026. 2025: p. 8; 03/03/2026.

An industrial network with dated measures

The 2025 annual report presents 111 production facilities and ten R&D centres, with manufacturing and research operations in 17 countries. Employees are distributed across 19 countries: countries with employees and countries with factories are different measures. The footprint includes Spain, other European markets, Brazil, Mexico, the United States, India, China and Morocco.

The November 2026 presentation describes 120 manufacturing facilities. That later date and perimeter are not used to reinterpret certification coverage in 2025. Proximity to customers supports supply organisation, while a dispersed network requires common controls adapted to each setting.

Sources: CIE Automotive 2025 annual report · November 2026 company presentation · CIE Automotive 2025 consolidated accounts. 2025: pp. 37, 43–45, 60; 2026: p. 7.

Full-year revenue and earnings

CIE Automotive reported consolidated revenue of €3,958.253 million in 2025, compared with €3,960.555 million in 2024. This sales line differs from operating revenue of €4,067.481 million, which includes other items and inventory changes. Operating profit was €542.876 million and profit attributable to the parent was €335.782 million.

Total consolidated profit was €369.482 million, of which €33.700 million belonged to non-controlling interests. Higher attributable profit therefore coexisted with slightly lower nominal sales. As a separate update, the company presentation reported sales of €3,140.9 million and net income of €274.8 million for the first nine months of 2026. These are interim figures, with Aludec joining during the period, rather than full-year results.

Sources: CIE Automotive 2025 consolidated accounts · November 2026 company presentation. 2025: p. 3; 2026: p. 32.

Workforce, employment and comparability

The year-end 2025 workforce comprised 25,891 people: 20,437 men and 5,454 women. This is headcount, rather than an annual average or full-time equivalents. The report distinguishes 21,378 permanent and 4,513 temporary employees.

Part of the increase from 24,330 people in 2024 reflects the inclusion of NAPS apprentices in India whose remuneration became directly payable by the plants. The entire increase therefore cannot be interpreted as net creation of new jobs. The relevant disclosure does not give a total for non-employees; absence of a figure does not mean there are none.

Sources: CIE Automotive: 2025 sustainability reporting. 2025: pp. 207–212.

Leadership and organisational responsibility

Corporate pages checked on 8 November 2026 identify Antonio María Pradera Jáuregui as board chairman and proprietary director, and Jesús María Herrera Barandiaran as chief executive. Pradera’s biography dates his departure from executive duties to the end of 2017; he is not described here as the current executive chairman.

The prevention system combines corporate leadership with plant-level responsibility. The health and safety policy assigns implementation to the CEO, supported by corporate human resources and occupational risk prevention staff. Industrial decentralisation makes it especially important for a local incident to lead to learning and follow-up at other facilities.

Sources: CIE Automotive: board of directors · CIE Automotive: history and management team · CIE Automotive: 2025 sustainability reporting. 2025: S1-1; 08/11/2026.

ISO 45001: a target with a defined scope

CIE calls its occupational risk prevention framework Process 12. Certification is obtained at plant level. Sites within the scope of the plan launched in 2020 must complete the CIE SAFETY questionnaire annually; a score below 85 out of 100 requires an action plan. The annual report describes more than one hundred internal audits and various risk assessments during 2025.

The reported 100% ISO 45001 certification refers to eligible plants within the plan launched in 2020, excluding subsequent acquisitions or developments and divested facilities. These plants employed 23,507 people, or 91% of the 2025 workforce. The decrease from 95% workforce coverage in 2024 is attributed to perimeter changes; it does not by itself demonstrate certificate losses or establish universal current coverage.

Sources: CIE Automotive: 2025 sustainability reporting · CIE Automotive 2025 annual report. 2025: pp. 185–186, 217–219; p. 65.

Specific actions and working conditions

Reported measures vary by country. India examples include noise measurement and controls, workload and overtime reviews, and warehouse audits. Spain examples cover noise measurement, supervisor training, warehouse organisation and 5S initiatives. Brazil reports inspections, lighting replacement, and noise and gas assessment; Slovakia reports ventilation and employee-facility improvements. These are disclosed actions and projects, rather than independent verification of implementation at every plant.

Listening to employees supplies another input: CIE conducts workplace climate surveys every two years at production sites. Insurance or medical care, food and transport benefits complement this management approach, but spending alone does not establish a clinical improvement or replace control of workplace exposures.

Sources: CIE Automotive: 2025 sustainability reporting. 2025: pp. 187–188, 198–199.

Injuries, fatalities and data boundaries

The employee accident table records 417 cases in 2025, up from 361 in 2024, and excludes accidents without lost time and commuting accidents. The 417 comprise 410 minor, six severe and one fatal accident. The annual report locates the fatal accident in India and reports a subsequent procedural review and stronger supervision, training and controls.

There were also 18 reported occupational illness cases, compared with 23 in 2024. The company reports no deaths among value-chain workers operating at its sites. However, it does not disclose non-employee illness cases or days lost in the relevant section. Those gaps are not treated as zeros, and certification is not presented as evidence that harm was absent.

Sources: CIE Automotive: 2025 sustainability reporting · CIE Automotive 2025 annual report. 2025: pp. 218–219; p. 65.

Purchasing and workers of other companies

The supplier ESG portal requires registration and assessment for direct production suppliers and for indirect suppliers with annual purchases above €0.5 million. The group uses alerts and checks concerning human rights, the environment and business conduct, alongside mechanisms for identifying and correcting non-compliance.

These commercial filters must be distinguished from coordinating a specific intervention at a factory. A supplier’s ESG assessment does not automatically establish the safety of every maintenance, transport or delivery task. The occupational safety implication is to connect supplier selection with instructions, shared risks and supervision of the work actually performed.

Sources: CIE Automotive: 2025 sustainability reporting. 2025: S2, pp. 224–225; editorial interpretation.

Engineering for new applications

One specific example is BATSS, a European project in which CIE designs and develops battery-system enclosures. Its contribution aims to integrate the module, battery pack and cooling into a scalable, modular architecture for off-road vehicles, stationary applications and recreational boats. This is an engineering contribution, not ownership of the consortium’s entire technology.

The report also describes CIE’s participation as a partner in Basquevolt and deployment of automation and digital tools. Product and process adaptation has industrial significance, but it does not establish a proven reduction in occupational injuries. Technology changes require review of process hazards and the skills needed for operation and maintenance.

Sources: CIE Automotive 2025 annual report. 2025: pp. 28, 82–83; editorial interpretation.

Environmental management and decarbonisation

In 2025, CIE reported implementing Impact, a global environmental traceability platform for consolidating information across its regions. Its roadmap sets 2033 targets to reduce Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 57.9% and Scope 3 emissions by 54.6%, against 2021. These are targets, not reductions already achieved.

Sources: CIE Automotive 2025 annual report. 2025: pp. 94, 96.

The group reported 95,298.27 tonnes of CO₂ equivalent in Scope 1 emissions and 246,878.27 tonnes in market-based Scope 2 emissions for 2025. Both exceed the 2024 comparative figures published in the 2025 report: 91,257.61 and 235,058.13 tonnes respectively. The comparison requires care: the 2024 figures were restated following consumption corrections and a revised Indian electricity factor, while Engrecon and CIE Autometal Piracicaba plants entered the reporting perimeter in 2025. Environmental performance must be read with its methodology and scope; it does not establish occupational safety outcomes.

Sources: CIE Automotive: 2025 sustainability reporting. 2025: pp. 101–103.

Workplace challenges and reported concerns

The automotive transition, acquisition integration and cost pressure create investment, organisational and training demands. The 2025 occupational safety outcomes, with more recorded accidents and one fatality, require measures to be assessed alongside actual harm. The company’s favourable comparison with sector benchmarks is not adopted as an independent conclusion.

The internal reporting channel received 163 reports in 2025. CIE states that 102 were closed for insufficient evidence, 19 remained under investigation at year-end, and investigations resulted in 14 dismissals, including workplace bullying and sexual harassment cases. These are company-reported internal management and investigation data: not every report is a proven allegation, and dismissals are not described as court convictions.

Sources: CIE Automotive: 2025 sustainability reporting · CIE Automotive 2025 annual report. 2025: pp. 195–196, 218; p. 65.

What this case helps examine

Sabentis’s editorial reading focuses on the relationship between a common model and implementation at each site. CIE provides documented examples of questionnaires with action thresholds, audits, exposure measurements and employee participation. Their value lies in checking whether findings produce verifiable measures that remain effective when processes, organisation or the perimeter change.

Certified-plant counts, workforce coverage and injury outcomes answer different questions. Reading them together helps prevent achievement of a documentary target from becoming an automatic conclusion about actual safety. This is an editorial assessment, not an audit of CIE sites or evidence of a commercial relationship with Sabentis.

Sources: CIE Automotive: 2025 sustainability reporting · CIE Automotive 2025 annual report. 2025: pp. 185–188, 217–219; p. 65.

Frequently asked questions

Does CIE Automotive make complete cars?

It designs and manufactures components and subassemblies for vehicle manufacturers and other suppliers. Its offering combines materials, technologies and part families; it is not a brand of complete cars. [1] · [2]

Is Aludec included in 2025 revenue?

No. The agreement was signed in December 2025 and completion was disclosed on 3 March 2026. The 2025 accounts exclude Aludec; pro forma presentations including it use a different perimeter. [1] · [2]

What does 100% ISO 45001 certification mean?

It refers to eligible plants in the plan launched in 2020, not all subsequent additions. Those plants covered 91% of the 2025 workforce. Facility certification and employee coverage are different measures. [1] · [2]

What specific prevention measures are documented?

CIE SAFETY questionnaires requiring action plans below 85 points, audits and assessments, noise measurements in several countries and working-condition improvements. The profile preserves geographical scope and does not claim these measures caused an injury reduction. [1] · [2]

Were there fatal workplace accidents in 2025?

Yes. CIE reported one employee workplace fatality in India. Its table records 417 accidents, excluding cases without lost time and commuting accidents. The company reported no deaths among value-chain workers operating at its sites. [1] · [2]

Does the photograph show CIE Automotive’s headquarters?

No. It shows the exterior of CIE Inyectametal in Abadiño, photographed on 19 April 2025. The parent’s registered office is in Bilbao. The photograph is used under its creator’s CC0 dedication. [1] · [2] · [3]