Cement consumption will fall between 10% and 12% in 2020 to stand at around 13 million tons at the end of the year, according to the forecasts of the Employer Oficemen, data very similar to those of the last economic crisis. Cement entrepreneurs foresee that the recovery will not come at least until 2022, due to the increase in the deficit and public debt, and only after the arrival of the EU rescue fund.
The bosses stoma that recovery will not come until 2022 due to “the increase in the deficit and public debt. The resources from the EU, which can be used for public investment, will not begin to appreciate significantly until 2022, in addition to the fact that, for two years, it is not expected to recover the level of housing visas that existed in 2019 “, has explained the President of Oficemen, Víctor García Brosa, during the presentation of the Cement Statistics.
Given these flattering data, the cement sector asks the Government for a specific plan for the recovery of construction, one of the sectors that could boost GDP growth in Spain. The green infrastructure construction, a social housing plan for rentals and programs for facilitate young people’s access to their first home Through State guarantees, these are some of the measures requested by construction employers.
“The construction sector and its ancillary industries urgently need a specific infrastructure and housing plan that will make it possible to take advantage of the employment generation potential of construction and also boost the national economy as a whole,” said the organization’s president.
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