Interview with Agus Durán, Centrotécnica

Currently, there are many problems of industries in our sector that are holding back the recovery. Not only the financing limits the capacity to invest in new equipment of last generation able to produce more profitably with contained energy consumption, high reliability and productivity, but rather the lack of aid to the industry does not become competitive. The cost of energy, social charges and the instability of the economy made few industrial risk beyond what is strictly necessary to survive in these times.

Before the closure of a multitude of companies across Europe, has grown the market of machinery of occasion although demand in the past two years has been low. Still, did sight a slight increase in sales after the last event of Düsseldorf. In fact this show was highly profitable - something unusual - but all 2011 will still be pending. To a significant improvement or stability, will have to wait for 2012 and subsequent years.

If we talk about the transformation of plastics by injection in our country there is a tendency of change: the logical sectors decreased as the of the automotive or construction and derivatives of the latter, the white line and Brown line and the increase in the packaging sectormainly focused in the field of food and the médico-farmacéutico. These sectors require advanced machinery and facilities modern and automated, which affects in the renewal of the fleet of machinery of first line, whereas increasingly less used option and the 'low cost' machinery that both had proliferated in the pre-crisis era. Spain must be a country of production of parts with high technical value. We cannot compete with low-cost economies.

Spanish transformer must specialize, produce technical parts with the added value of the know-how, the engineering and productivity using means of first line. The collaboration of regional, State and local government entities to do so is clearly essential. This is the way to go.