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At the press conference in Paris in January, Nadal said the company was opening up to new industrial sectors including aviation, manufacturing, energy, life sciences and healthcare, among others. In 2017, it saw a recovery in the automotive sector in Europe and a shortage of transport capacity in the market.
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