The Board of Directors of Aifec is confident in the rapid recovery of the labels once the Government lifts the measures to paralyze the economy that have been taken to overcome the health crisis caused by the expansion of the coronavirus in Spain. The association's forecast is based on a study carried out among its manufacturing partners which shows that, although about three-quarters of the companies are being affected by the current situation, the sector continues to work at 90% of its capacity pushed for the essential activities of food and pharmacy.
The president of Aifec, Jose Ramon Benito, recalls that "80% of the turnover of this business comes from labels for the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, hygiene and health sector", essential activities that remain in operation in these weeks of hibernation of the economy after the Publication of the Royal Decree Law of March 29 to reduce the mobility of the population.
According to this survey carried out by Aifec in the second half of March, 83% of the companies in the sector have increased their production of labels for the food and pharmacy industries by almost 30%. In addition, eight out of 10 companies have seen the number of national deliveries for these industries increase by 29%. Exports of this type of labels have grown in 7 out of 10 companies by 12% on average. For the rest of the industries, production, national deliveries and exports have decreased, which have been frozen since the Royal Decree Law of March 29.
At the health level, nine% of Aifec companies have workers who are suffering from the disease caused by the coronavirus and 46% have workers in quarantine or home surveillance.
In addition, Aifec is in continuous contact with other associations in the paper and packaging value chain to act jointly with the administration and guarantee the supply of raw materials in order to continue working and thus ensuring the supply of products from first necessity to citizenship.
