‘Plan 3 Millions' for reindustrializar Spain

The Spanish economy has to reinventarse once again and find the fundamental elements that give him back the confidence and convince to some investors that doubt seriously of our capacity of growth. In this crossing between an already unfeasible model and a new sustainable model, the industry of the car can and wants to follow playing a leading paper, leading the industrial state, that is the one who has to articulate an economic structure of future, creator of value and exporting of products of quality.

In the Spanish case, the situation to half term is winning, with bets recent investors very significant and projects very attractor trucks assigned to our plants. But on a long-term basis there is not at all ensured. There are a lot of factories in Europe that compete denodadamente by investments and load of production to ensure his existence at least to half term. And the only possible action to win in this envite is to be more competitive that the alternative options. And win does not have to understand like keeping what already has , not even for recovering what had , but for achieving put even more ambitious, taking advantage of to the maximum the available capacities and putting in value all the potential accumulated.

For this Anfac has elaborated the ‘Plan 3 Millions'. It treats of a Plan to do grow to the country in production of vehicles, win competitiveness in all the chain of value of the industrial state, create some surroundings attractor trucks country to compete, and follow attracting industrial investments. The aim is reindustrializar Spain.

The ‘Plan 3 Millions' has some clear impacts and very positive for the country:

- Growth of the Spanish GDP in 1%.

- Creation of more than 73.000 new places of work.

- 1 Million of Vehicles more with the aim to reach the 3 million vehicles manufactured in Spain.

- Growth of 4% of the Spanish export.

- More than 10.000 million euros of saving in logistics.

- 200.000 new units on sale of vehicles.

This Plan, besides has the peculiarity to integrate to all the chain of value of the sector. It is an ambitious plan, but possible, that has the collaboration of providers, dealers, manufacturers and other a lot of sectors related with the car. This Plan already has been presented to distinct Ministries and to the parliamentary groups politicians.

In words of Mario Armero, vice-president of Anfac: “it Is the timely moment to reinforce our industry. The sector of the car is in full ebullición in these weeks, with the marks taking decisions on where situate his plants. The multinationals of the car have showed that Spain is in the map, with some investments in this year from among 1.500 and 2.000 million euros. Spain has capacity to produce three million vehicles and this Plan will generate impacts very positive in the employment and in the Spanish economy.”. “The Spanish industry bet by Spain, has not done of Spain a cortafuegos.”.

By his part, the president of Anfac, José Manuel Machado, resaltó that “This Plan has some very clear aims: recover the 3 million production, the 2,5 million export and the two million sales in the Spanish market”.And it remembered that it is a very transversal “Plan, that affects to a lot of sectors and to a lot of Administrations, is a Plan in which a lot of sectors can see reflected. They play an important paper the Administration, the own Manufacturers, where is vital to review the competitiveness, flexibility, quality and innovation. But also the industry of manufacture of components, service companies and the dealers”. “And we can do it because: have the knowledge, have the installed capacity, the quality of manufacture is excellent and because have the will to improve the productivity”