The Official Spanish Chamber of Commerce in Belgium and Luxembourg has selected Sener as the winning company in the X Edition of its “Company of the Year” awards, in recognition of its work at the forefront of the aerospace and defence sector in these countries.

Through this award, the Chamber aims to contribute one more year to the promotion of Spanish economic and business development in Belgium and Luxembourg, rewarding the experience and demonstration of leadership and competitiveness of companies in their sector of activity.

X Edition of the “Company of the Year” Awards

The Chamber seeks to reward the trajectory of Sener, founded in 1956 as the first Spanish engineering company registered as such. More than 60 years later, the company has a workforce of nearly 4,000 professionals, offices on five continents, a permanent presence in 18 countries and production centres for the aerospace and defence market in Spain and Poland. In addition to the aerospace and defence markets, Sener has a proven track record in energy, mobility, data centres, digital and naval projects.

Since the opening of its Brussels office in 2019, Sener has actively collaborated with Belgian companies on 17 European defence projects and 5 European space projects. In the last four years, the company has managed to attract more than 50 million euros in funding from the European Commission (mainly from the European Defence Fund and the Horizon Europe programme).

As an example of these collaborations, Sener is currently leading an important mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) that is being developed under the name of PROBA-3. This is the first space mission in which two satellites will orbit together in formation, scheduled for launch at the end of 2024.

In Luxembourg, Sener is leading a multinational very low orbit satellite project, coordinated by the European Defence Agency (EDA) and called VLEO. Among others, the Luxembourg companies SPARK and LIST, as well as the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, are participating.

The award will be presented to Sener on 2 December at an event that will bring together around one hundred people from the European institutions and the EU innovation ecosystem.

“We are honoured to have our activity recognised with this award, which confirms our track record in Belgium and Luxembourg. It also encourages us to continue to collaborate with Belgian and Luxembourg institutions and companies to continue offering innovative and cutting-edge technological solutions to help us reach the next frontier in strategic areas for Europe, such as space and defence,” says Fernando Horcada, Director of EU and NATO Programmes and of Sener’s Aerospace and Defence Representation Office in Brussels.