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The export reached 82% of his sales in 2011

The Spanish industry of goods of team increases his turnover 0,8%

Editorial Interempresas06/07/2012

The impulse of the sector in external trade recesses the deficit in more than 4.500 million euros, what supposes a descent of the -43% with regard to 2010. On the other hand, according to data of Sercobe, the turnover breaks the negative tendency of 2009 and 2010, of the -20% and of the -3% respectively, and attains to reach the 39.000 million euros. In this sense, Antonio Garcíapons, general director of Sercobe, has stood out that “to continue in this line, the industry will have to support in his powerful productive structure and his solid world-wide position, that will be key elements for a favourable evolution in the next years”.

The National Association of Manufacturers of Goods of Team (Sercobe) presented in his annual general assembly, the definite data of the corresponding sector to the exercise 2011 between which projects the exporting propensity (Exp/Factur) of the industry, that reached a historical maximum of 82,2% with a turnover of 31.200 million euros on the total of the volume of business of the sector. An effort that has attained that this industry represent 15% of the total of the Spanish export, mitigating the effects of a strong fall in the internal consumption enciphered in a -10%. This increase in the external coverage of the Spanish industry of goods of team has favoured a considerable descent of the deficit in more than 4.500 million euros, what supposes a -43% with regard to the figures of 2010.

Extruder-sopladora Plastiblow of Plasmatec

In terms of employment, in 2011 the sector of the goods of team achieved a consolidation of the level of occupation and a minimum cut of the -0,1%, very move# away of the figures of the -6,8% in 2009 and of 2,3% in 2010. This industry generates a total of 500.000 places of direct and indirect work in our country.

Sources: Sercobe and Department of Customs and II.EE.

And in 2012?

The perspectives of the Spanish industry of goods of team for 2012 will depend to a large extent of the situation of the group of the economic economy of Spain and of Europe, as well as of the success of the measures tackled. The figures that handles Sercobe regarding the first quarter of the year present an evolution generalised to the drop, although the negative slope does not seem to indicate a clear tendency to aggravate . The volume of agreements obtained during the exercise 2011 increased 4,2%, slightly inferior to 4,5% achieved in 2010, what supposes a forecast of continuity in his evolution along this year. The exports keep in a considerable part of the specialitys his firmness and will continue growing, although to a lower rhythm.

In words of Antonio Garcíapons, general director of Sercobe, “the sector of the goods of team has showed his capacity to confront successfully the competition of the international markets. To continue in this line, the industry will have to support in his powerful productive structure and his solid position to world-wide level, that will be key elements for a favourable evolution in the next years”. To what adds that, “those specialitys with greater technological content will be called to constitute like the unavoidable substitutes of other sectors in evident declive in pro of the economic recovery of our country”.

The technological development of the sector is indispensable to attain a greater international competitiveness, of here that the investments in R&D have kept in a next tax to 2% of the turnover, although with an unavoidable decrease in the total volume. In fact, it appreciates that the best business results coincide with those specialitys and structures that devote more attention to the activities of R&D.

On Sercobe

In the National Association of Manufacturers of Goods of Team (Sercobe) are integrated cheese cheese at present more than 115 companies and industrial groups and 6 sectorial associations, representing to more than 400 companies and groupings related with the design, the manufacture, the maintenance and the setting of goods of team.

The association supports and stimulates to the Spanish industry of goods of team contributing to the development of new products and improving the productive processes. Besides, it promotes the export of goods of team and industrial installations in other countries and incentiva the R&D, the quality in the production, the hygiene and the protection of the environingingment.