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Feique And IESE organise a day for the attraction of investments to the sector

10/4/2013

4 October 2013

The next 10 October will take place in the headquarters of the IESE in Barcelona the day ‘Chemical Industry Road Map 2015. Fostering Investments' in which they will participate maximum representatives of the main companies of the chemical sector as well as of the Administration. The meeting has by object analyse and debate, in three blocks differentiated, the factor of competitiveness with greater influence in the structure of costs of the chemical sector -the power-, the design of the effective industrial politics, and the roads and instruments of financials of the investment, the innovation and the internationalisation of the companies, since the improvement of each one of these factors in the short term will allow to attract productive investments.

The Spanish chemical industry, with a figure of businesses of 56.000 million euros, generates at present 11,5% of the Gross Industrial Product and more than 500.000 direct employments and indirect. It is likewise the second exporting sector of the Spanish economy, having registered in 2012 some upper sales to 28.000 million euros in international markets, to which already allocate more than 50% of the production.

Although the chemical sector surpasses already the figure of businesses registered prior to the start of the economic crisis, thank you fundamentally to his high degree of penetration in external markets, no less true is that, further of the short term, is necessary revertir the gradual loss of industrial fabric in Spain and Europe.

As it collects the Report “Horizon 2030 of the Spanish chemical industry”, a strategic document elaborated by Feique, estimates that the chemical sector, to scale world-wide, experience a productive growth of 4,5% annual until 2030. However, and in spite of the good global perspectives, is necessary to improve the conditions of competitiveness of our country to be able to absorb the global growth that foresees for the sector and attract productive investments that induce the generation of wealth and employment.

Speakers:

• Prof. Jordi Canals, General Director, IESE

• Prof. Juan Roure, Academic Director of the Meeting, IESE

• Luis Serrano, President, Feique

• Eduardo Gil, President, AEGE (Association of Companies of Big Consumption of Power)

• Pedro Mejía, Vice-president, OMIE (Operator of the Iberian Market of Power)

• Juan Carlos Muñoz-Conde, Corporate General Director, BNK Spain

• Erwin Rauhe, Vice-president and Adviser Delegated, BASF Spanish

• Antón Valero, President, Spain and Portugal, Dow Chemical

• Prof. Juan Luis López Cardenete, IESE

• Alejandro Cros, Sudirector General of Industrial Sectorial Politics, MINETUR

• Timoteo de la Fuente, Responsible Chemical Sector, DG Company and Industry, European Commission