Oficemen And the unions alert to the Government on the consequences of the electrical reform

The Grouping of manufacturers of cement of Spain, Oficemen, has done to arrive to the Ministry of Industry his worry by the consequences that can involve the electrical reform for the exports of the sector cementero. With the aim to cushion partially the crisis of the sector of the construction in our country, in the last three years the industry cementera has done a big effort to export more than 6 million tonnes of cement and clínker to 36 countries. To implant the reform as it is announced, the Spanish cement will disappear of the majority of markets in which today, with big effort, competes. A serious reverse for the engine of the export that is collaborating to take out to our country of this deep crisis.

In this sense, the president of Oficemen, Isidoro Miranda, in a letter directed to the minister José Manuel Soria has indicated him that “the loss of the provision of the service of interrumpilidad and the consequent increase of the electrical final price will mean for the sector cementero lose almost in his whole the market of export”. And even more, “a greater increase of the energetic prices can comport to enclosures, deslocalizaciones and to the imminent replanteamiento of the investments of the industry cementera in Spain”, adds.

In this context, MCA-UGT has expressesed his worry by the difficult situation that crosses the sector cementero in the actuality and shows his support to the industry. “We throw in fault an energetic politics that support to the industry in general and to the sector cementero in particular”, has declared the general secretary of MCA-UGT, Manuel Fernández ‘Lito'. In relation with the employment has indicated that “the workers are doing important sacrifices to ensure the feasibility of the industry cementera and the electrical reform can spoil with all these efforts”.

In the same sense, the general secretary of Fecoma-CC OO, Vicente Sánchez, has warned to the Government that “the workers already are bearing the crisis and if we want to speak seriously of the future, the industry cementera will need some similar electrical costs to which have other countries of our surroundings”. “The reform posed lastrará the competitiveness of the sector cementero when, now more than ever, needs to go out to the outside for paliar the scarce internal demand”, has added.