Lortek reports record revenue of €8.2 million, consolidating its business

The financial year was marked by the consolidation of senior management following the change of leadership on 31 October 2024, as well as by the shift towards an organisational structure more closely aligned with the centre’s strategic challenges and the market. Collaboration with the industrial sector once again took centre stage in its activities. R&D projects carried out in partnership with companies accounted for 47.05% of the total, reinforcing Lortek’s role as a direct technology transfer agent to industry.

Among the key milestones of the 2025 financial year is the creation of Siaweld, a new start-up launched by the centre and focused on the advanced digitalisation of welding processes, according to Pedro Álvarez, Lortek’s managing director. This initiative integrates the centre’s own technological developments in digital inspection based on artificial intelligence, data analysis, digital platforms and advanced sensor technology, enabling digital traceability, automatic real-time quality control and a significant improvement in industrial efficiency and inspection costs.

The Assembly also noted the progress made in the centre’s regional presence, with the opening of its first office in Bilbao

The Assembly also highlighted the progress made in expanding the centre’s regional presence, with the opening of its first office in Bilbao, located at Auzo Factory Irazabal-Matiko. This new space strengthens links with businesses, universities and stakeholders in the innovation ecosystem, whilst also helping to attract new technological talent.

Looking ahead, the meeting served to present the key guidelines that will steer the centre’s development in the coming years. Lortek’s new 2026–2029 strategic framework will guide the organisation’s next phase towards a stronger position in priority industrial sectors and a greater market focus. The centre’s new strategic plan aims to strengthen the levers that will ensure Lortek remains a leading technology centre in the coming years and rapidly and efficiently generates new innovative solutions through the adoption of disruptive technologies that transform the industrial fabric and improve its competitiveness.

Lortek’s new strategic framework for 2026–2029 will guide the organisation’s next phase towards a stronger position in priority industrial sectors and a greater market focus

To this end, this new phase reinforces the commitment to a model of applied innovation, closely linked to the real needs of the productive sector, and incorporates the implementation of a new business-unit-based structure, aligned with strategic sectors such as sustainable mobility, energy, metallurgy, the aerospace sector, industrialised construction and dual-use applications, as highlighted by the organisation’s president, Javier Amezaga.

With this assessment, the Lortek General Assembly highlighted a year of growth, consolidation and transformation, and reaffirmed its continued commitment to knowledge generation, industrial competitiveness and the development of a relational model with customers, partners and suppliers, as well as a cooperative management model firmly aligned with its values.