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Entrevista a Damián Hernández, Wittmann Battenfeld“The most skilled industry and competitive, sues machinery with high technological value”
Interview to Damián Hernández, Wittmann Battenfeld
The news in the means on the Spanish economy are very negative. However, it seems that there is a slight recovery of the industry of the plastics, thinks that this is sure enough like this?
It is true that reading some data on the market of the past year in our sector, can seem that we were in a good moment of recovery. The first semester of the 2011 started softly the engine of our real economy, encouraging to several industrial to go in in attractor trucks challenges and invest in new technologies, but sincere and unfortunately for the interests of our community, after leaving backwards the past summer, possibly because of different political and economic appearances of índole external, this engine in phase of recovery until the holidays, remained blocked again. Without knowing very well which mechanical problems were the true cause of the evils, gave us account that the vehicle that all needed had remained without strength.
Find us in a similar phase to the one of the worst moments of the start of the already famous crisis, although in this occasion win them to swim contracorriente possibly are stronger, and a lot of citizens, included the brave emprendedores near to the world of the plastic, in spite of the multiple zancadillas of the politicians, will attain to stabilise our industry with forceful decisions and especially with optimism.
In the actuality, can appreciate that some territories of our geography are fortunately improving his productive activity, thanks to political strategies, unfair depending of the punto of the observer, but positive in economic appearances venues. Our company has an important presence so much commercial as of services in all the zones, by what attend the movement of the demand without leaving abandoned those other zones prejudiced by the changes of the market.
It thinks that the transformers of Spanish plastics are orienting his strategies to the internationalisation?
Any formula to improve the situation is correct and tremendously positive. Obviously, expand the fan of exits with presence in the outside is a big alternative, especially for those companies with interesting own products or with a stable economic potential that allow him compete with companies already consolidated in the external markets. No all the industrial of our sector have this possibility to increase his presence in the outside, by what are studying other original recipes, or already find struggling against the adversities improving his competitiveness and specialising in markets where can stand out.
they are selling Now machines of a greater value that before or machines more instrumented?
Because of the special situation of our demanding market, far to be one of the lucky emergent, the current demand remains oriented to the production of products with a high value added, and this involves the introduction of technologies more sophisticated and, in consequence, costlier. For example, so that it was profitable a machine of special injection for the manufacture of light containers, has to be an inyectora fast, robust and very instrumented, by what would find us with a notably upper investment to the one of a conventional machine.
The most skilled industry and competitive, sues machinery with high technological value. We can confirm that our company Wittmann Battenfeld is at present supplying inyectoras very advanced technologically, of last generation, being in some cases costly machines when being special, vertical, automated, for several components or with aided by injection water or gas.
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