Interview to Agus Durán, Centrotécnica
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?
Relatively yes. We can not say that in general there is a recovery but yes that the industries that have survived to this crisis, definitely, have saneado his accounts and structure. In a lot of cases have focalizado his production in a concrete product and have specialised . The light recovery comes marked by investment in technology, renewal of obsolete machinery and the acquisition of special equipment for products of greater value added. The investment in systems of automation and peripherals that optimise the production forces also to have a park of machinery chord to this specialisation and this has kept the market in some alive way.
It thinks that the transformers of Spanish plastics are orienting his strategies to the internationalisation?
Definitely, with the drastic reduction of the demand and the production in our sector, a lot of companies have disappeared and the big industries that gave work to third have recovered the production to internal level. This does that it reduce the number of providers by part of the final customers. Therefore, the demand remains covered to national level of form more or less easy and a lot of companies that require to produce more to keep his structure are treating of internacionalizarse, although it does not result easy. The competition of the east countries keeps on being strong, although they also are suffering the crisis and present problems in some cases regarding quality of production or technology of means and that is the baza that can play the Spanish companies. The increase of markets like the one of the packaging does also that this internationalisation was more feasible, at least in the European field.
they are selling Now machines of a greater value that before or machines more instrumented?
Largely yes. They request machines more special, instrumented or focused to a product or concrete field. This does that it increase the general value of the machinery supplied and invests more in equipment more specialised to produce technical piece or achieve greater productivity and reduction of costs.
