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The business fabric of the Valencian Community and the INPYME 2026 opportunity: Interview on Hoy por Hoy Ontinyent (Cadena SER)
- 02/03/2026
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In this interview on Hoy por Hoy Ontinyent – La Vall d’Albaida (Cadena SER), Miguel Coll speaks with Ana González (AGB Ingeniers) about the business fabric of the Valencian Community and the industrial potential of La Vall d’Albaida. A highly practical conversation to understand why the INPYME 2026 Grants, already published and with the application period open from 16/02/2026 to 10/03/2026, can be a decisive opportunity to invest in modernization, automation, and digitalization. We invite you to listen to the programme and prepare your project with technical criteria.
By Ana González, CEO and Agricultural Engineer – Industrial consultant in energy efficiency and grant management at AGB Ingeniers
Listen to the full interview here: Interview
A few days ago, I had the pleasure of speaking with Miguel Coll on the programme Hoy por Hoy Ontinyent – La Vall d’Albaida, on Cadena SER. It was a warm, close interview and, at the same time, one that was very aligned with the reality many companies in our region and in the Valencian Community are experiencing: an industrial fabric that works intensely, competes in increasingly demanding markets, and needs real tools to keep investing and growing with stability.
During the conversation, Miguel asked me how I see the Valencian business fabric, and in particular that of La Vall d’Albaida, a region with a strongly defined industrial identity. Here, family businesses and SMEs coexist with an enormous capacity to adapt, many of them linked to productive sectors where investment is not a luxury, but a condition for remaining competitive: machinery modernization, automation, industrial digitalization, process improvement, and energy efficiency. In that context, a call like INPYME 2026 arrives at a particularly relevant moment.
INPYME 2026: a short window, but a decisive one for Valencian industry
In the interview we also discussed a very concrete issue: the INPYME 2026 grants have already been published and open a clear window of opportunity for industrial SMEs in the Valencian Community. The timeframe is short and action is needed with criteria: applications are open from 16/02/2026 to 10/03/2026, and the procedure is competitive selection. This means it’s not enough to “be on time”: you must submit a coherent, well-structured project with solid documentation.
INPYME 2026 is aimed at boosting industrial investments and has a significant overall budget, €49.3 million, and it is also framed under the de minimis regime (Regulation (EU) 2023/2831). And one practical aspect we also mentioned: the application is 100% online, which requires working with order and precision from the very beginning, because with such a tight deadline, improvisation is expensive.
La Vall d’Albaida: real industry, real investments
When we talk about La Vall d’Albaida, we talk about industry you can touch. Companies that manufacture, transform, machine, assemble, or provide services to broader production chains. It’s a region where investment usually has a very clear objective: improve productivity, reduce downtime, gain quality stability, increase capacity, or digitize control to make decisions with data instead of intuition.
On the programme, I emphasized something I often repeat at AGB Ingeniers: making the most of a public grant is not about “asking for money.” It is about turning a necessary investment into a defensible project, with technical coherence and documentary traceability. And in a competitive process, that is what makes the difference between having real chances of approval or ending up with a weak file.
Why working with AGB Ingeniers makes the difference
Miguel also asked me what role a technical consultancy like AGB Ingeniers can play throughout this process. My answer was clear: supporting you doesn’t mean “submitting paperwork.” It means bringing industrial criteria, organizing the project, identifying which investment has the greatest impact, how it fits the call, and how it can be justified without gaps.
In INPYME 2026, as in other lines of public support, the project must be well explained and correctly documented. You need to build a solid technical narrative: what problem the investment solves, what improvement it introduces, how it impacts the production process, and how it will be proven. That prior work not only increases the quality of the application, it also improves the investment itself, because it forces planning for implementation, integration, and measurable results.
In addition, at AGB Ingeniers we have a very clear way of working: anticipation. We always say that being prepared is performance. And we don’t say it lightly. We see it every year: when a company clearly defines its investment, organizes the documentation, and prepares the application with industrial logic from the start, it reduces risk, avoids delays, and improves its chances in a competitive call.
I invite you to listen to the full interview
If you are an entrepreneur, manager, or technical lead in Ontinyent, La Vall d’Albaida, or anywhere in the Valencian Community, I invite you to listen to the programme. It’s a practical conversation, focused on real industry, about how our business fabric is evolving and how we can take advantage of an opportunity like INPYME 2026 to invest with vision.
In the video (full interview) you will find context, key insights, and one main idea that summarizes everything: the grant is published and the deadline is running, but when you act with method and technical support, investments turn into real competitiveness.
If you are considering investing in 2026 and want to know whether your project fits INPYME 2026, at AGB Ingeniers we can help you analyze it, structure it, and submit it with industrial criteria.
Listen to the full interview here: Interview