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# Navantia starts production at new San Fernando TUAP workshop
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2025-08-05-navantia-tuap-workshop-san-fernando/
- Published: 2025-08-05T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-16T12:00:15.000Z
- Description: Spain's Navantia began production at its new Open Flat Units Workshop (TUAP) in San Fernando, using hybrid laser welding certified by Lloyd's Register, part of over EUR 540 million invested in shipyard modernisation since 2019, serving the Avante 2200 corvette programme first.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Defence and space, #news, #reported, #editor-read

Reported Editor-read [Naval News, 6 August 2025](https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2025/08/navantia-begins-production-in-the-first-of-its-new-factories-equipped-with-new-technology/?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** It does not disclose the value of this specific workshop within Navantia's wider EUR 540 million modernisation programme.

**How this item counts.** This item is dated before the index starts on 1 January 2026, so it does not count in the [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/).

**How this item was made.** Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above; read and approved by the editor on 2026-10-16\. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)