/ INTERVIEW “ Confemetal, the Spanish Confederation of Metal Sector Companies, heads the creation of the first Spanish Technological and Industrial Platform of the Metal-mechanical Sector (PTEMM). This project has been born from the objective of developing an appropriate framework for collaboration between the national technological agents and the rest of the metal-mechanical corporate sector, for coordinating and improving the competitive positioning of our companies within the global and European scopes. Within this framework, the aim is to boost the promotion, generation and transfer of technology to the companies within the metal-mechanical sector and promote the implementation of R&D&I projects which generate our own products or components, which are required by the driving companies within the industry, the sector’s technology and services. Andrés Sánchez de Apellániz, secretary general of Confemetal, provides an in-depth explanation of this initiative’s current phase. valuable know-how, are competitive and perfectly Interview with secretary general of Confemetal 22 / Esther Güell There are companies in Spain which have extremely organised Andrés Sánchez de Apellániz, “