Interview to José Luis Diloy, president of Eurosurfas
30 December 2011
Alas, the situation of the sector today is the reflection of the industry in general.
It does not cross his best moment...
By what has been able to perceive these days in the fair, how live the expositores and the visitors this reality?
There is optimism, win that the situation improve.
What would stand out of this edition regarding novelties?
One of the companies expositoras has presented some products for bathrooms, for the treatment of metals, that do not contain neither phosphates neither chromium hexavalente, toxic element and that probably the EU will delete inside very little. In his place, use another type of products, in addition to the nanotechnology for the finishing of the surfaces before the painted.
Which relation thinks that has this sector with our surroundings?
The sector works from does already a lot of years in this appearance. To the equal that the chemical industry, is a role model by his respectful performance with the environment. In this this industry has invested a lot of money.
It is competitive the Spanish company in the outside?
Yes, are competitive but the Spanish manufacturer does not have exporting tradition. Now it seems that any begins to go out to the outside, perhaps by need, since the market here is as it is. However, the scales of external trade is balanced.
How it is possible?
The data is deceptive: we have big international corporations that manufacture in Spain products that afterwards export to other countries. Here the market is very atomizado, so much in paintings as in galvanic coatings: cientos of familiar companies of 4 or 5 employees, that are happening them canutas. I will put a very significant example: in Spain are 46 million inhabitants and there are 450 manufacturers of paintings. Germany explains 400 companies for 88 millions.
Very significant, yes
But there is more. Of 450 Spanish manufacturers, eleven do 60% of the turnover of the sector, and of between them, nine are foreign multinationals. The rest has to conform with what remains of the cake.
It ensures that the market has fallen 60%...
Yes, in some subsectores yes. Which situation can live the market of the lacado of the aluminium if there is not construction of houses?
What measured thinks that is taking the sector to survive to this crisis?
Treat to reduce the costs and externalizar the sales. But this only can it do those that have capacity.
And the rest?
In Brazil join several companies, specialised in several sectors, and travel jointly to countries of the surroundings, where installed .
We have in Spain this capacity of association?
No, and is a need of the sector; especially for these more than 400 small companies that commented before. The financial situation of the majority is very bad; some of them explain so only with 15% of own bottoms in the passive, and this there is not the one who hold it: in the moment in that them recortan a credit are practically forced to close.
