On the other hand, the general secretary of the Federation of Foundry Associations has highlighted that four companies have already had to stop, because they did not have enough material and raw material for the merger.
Radio Euskadi’s ‘Boulevard’ program interviewed this Monday the managing director of the Euskadi Food Cluster, Jon Ander Egañaand the general secretary of FEAF (Spanish Federation of Founders Associations), Martial Alzagato analyze the crisis that the food sector and the basque industry in the last days.
On the one hand, Egaña has pointed out that the food chain is made up of different links. “When the pandemic started we got out of the way without knowing what was going to happen. in the end it workedand I hope that this time it will also work,” he said.
After highlighting that the sectors that work with fresh products are the most affected, has admitted that it is easy for the food chain to be disrupted. Even so, he has asked the public to act calmly, since the food system works, “we have a wide variety of products” and the only thing that buying in bulk does is feed the spiral of madness. “If the situation continues, prices are going to go upbut there will be no shortages”. With all this, he has made a call to bet on the local products and close.
On the other hand, Marcel Alzaga has underlined that in the casting the color is black, “undoubtedly”. “four companies They have had to stop now, because they did not have enough material and raw material for the fusion. In the next few days it will be a tremendous concatenation. In the Foundry Cluster we have been denouncing the high energy costs that fully affect us”, he explained. In addition, he added that they depend a lot on the transport: “All this has made the storm perfect.”
He has also indicated that in his case he does not know if there will be a shortage, since “it depends a lot on transport.” “Depending on the evolution we will see the condition that it entails. What we do know is that we cannot wait until March 29 to take action,” he added.
Finally, he has advanced that they are having meetings with the administrations so that they establish measures and thus be able to put affordable costs, that is, so that energy prices are “more contained”. They have also been asked to activate the employment stabilization network mechanism to protect companies.
Source: Eitb
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