Tile is facing the most complicated fall in recent years. And all because of unmet energy costs, which have consequences in the form of slowdowns in the production of pavements and Employment Regulatory Files (ERTE). It’s a delicate situation in Castellón, where 25,000 jobs depend on the industry, where companies seek direct assistance that allows them to pay the gas bill. While the government was examining them, the ceramics association Ascer went to Brussels to explain to community officials the “emergency” that the state’s main industry was going through.
Vicente Nomdedeu, president of Ascer, and Alberto Echavarría, secretary general, they landed in the European capital yesterday, and they did so with a tight schedule of meetings at the highest level.I. And the purpose of the trip is nothing more than to give voice to an industry threatened by the energy crisis and not tired of directly demanding immediate action.
Nomdedeu and Echavarría, with Cristina Lobillo, Director of Energy Policy at the Directorate-General of the European Commission, on the Green Pact and direct measures to support energy-intensive industrial sectors gas. They also met with Juan Sánchez Peñuela, Minister of Energy of Spain’s Permanent Representation to the European Union (REPER), and conveyed the needs of the industry so that this department could monitor it from Brussels.
alternatives to gas
Another important meeting was the meeting of European Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson with cabinet member Tatiana Márquez, where the energy market and alternatives to help reduce gas prices and consumption were analyzed.
The agenda was completed with a meeting held in Brussels with Isabel Yglesias, President of European Affairs and permanent delegate of the CEOE, where tile employers conveyed the challenges of the industry to build alliances; and another with Denis Redonnet, Executive Vice President of Commerce and Head of Commercial Compliance. Nomdedeu and EchavariaThey justified the need to implement anti-dumping support measures and remove trade barriers that still exist in many countries.
Ascer’s senior executives’ trip to Brussels continues today with a full business roster, with more meetings where Castellón wants to raise his voice about the state of the industry as a result of rising prices. gas.
Nomdedeu and Echavarría meet with Cabinet members of the Energy Commissioner in Brussels this Monday.
Source: Informacion
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