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Entrevista a Patricia Mateu, Mateu & Solé"The consumption of plastics will increase, and with it, the opportunity to continue to grow"
Interview with Patricia Mateu, Mateu & Solé
Drafting Interempresas19/02/2010
February 19, 2010
After the celebration of the traditional meeting of suppliers of injectors, Interempresas-plastics universal wanted to know the opinion of the main Spanish suppliers about current issues of concern to the sector in our country.
Reducing the consumption of machines is one of the trends that we hear about more. It is a simple fashion or really Spanish plastics transformer calculated rigorously its production costs including energy consumption?
It is a fact that the trend in consumption of machines from the last few years has been downward. We all know that the current economic climate has affected negatively, not only to the sector of machinery for plastic, but that has done so across the Board. That is why we must not frighten us but yea adapt in the best possible way to normalization of the situation. This adaptation can be given, for example, by the energy saving by transformers, interested in injectors that guarantee such savings, either by variable frequency, servo motors, hybrid or fully electric machines. We must also educate the transformers than a significant optimization of the injection process, according to the piece to develop, can represent a saving of energy.
Talk about the future is difficult. But, does he not dare describe the panorama of the Spanish plastics industry by 2015?
Predict the future is difficult, but our logic and common sense Yes can give us an idea, as real as possible, of what may be the market of the injectors within 5 years. What is undeniable is that the plastic is increasingly present among us. An example of this are cars, becoming lighter and more versatile and all this thanks to the plastic.
New technologies, the sector of the toys, medicine, construction, electronics and household goods increasingly have more plastic components and, in many cases, are composed of 100%. You must not forget the momentum that is being given to nanotechnology. So the trend is upward and the consumption also. There is an opportunity to continue to grow and serve this market. To find the formula to do so must be the first objective both of which are manufacturers of machinery of transformers.
With regard to the type of transformer that there will be in 2015, and dare I extend it to the industry in general, they will be businesses more prepared technologically, much more realistic cost and economically more independent of outside funding, as the current severe recession will have made us learn other ways.
Their main arguments of sale in 2010 put in first-line matters relating to costs or to the injection technique?
The current trend is that we should worry about costs, due to the large foreign competition, though without losing sight differentiating elements that can bring us innovation, that is which should give us a differentiating aspect to the competition.
For transformer have always been, are and will be important to an attractive price combined with a reliable, high-tech machine and with the lowest possible energy consumption.
