Gestamp is to set up its Industry 4.0 Centre in the Basque Country and to run R&D&i projects on the Battery Box for the Electric Vehicle, which will make the Basque automotive sector more competitive Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu. the Basque Premier, today presided over the signing of a partnership agreement between the Basque Government and Gestamp involving R&D&i activities in the Basque Country during a four-year period. The agreement was signed by the Basque Government’s Minister for Economic Development and Infrastructures, Arantxa Tapia, and the Gestamp CEO, Francisco Riberas, at the Lehendakaritza, the seat of the Basque Government, this morning.