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The president of the Alicante Provincial Council presents the report prepared by INECA on the 'Current situation of the industrial model in the province'

The president of the Provincial Council, Toni Pérez , presented this morning at the ACTIU company located in Castalla the report prepared by the Institute of Economic Studies of the Province of Alicante – INECA , on the 'Current situation of the industrial model in the province'. This document, financed by the provincial institution, focuses on the economic and business health of Alicante and its municipalities , as well as its growth potential with respect to the industrial sector.

 

During the event, in which the regional Secretary of Industry, Felipe Carrasco , the president of INECA, Ignacio Amirola , as well as officials from the host company , also participated , Toni Pérez highlighted that the study reflects “ the productive wealth of a territory "which constitutes an indispensable asset for the economic success of the Valencian Community and Spain ."

 

“ We have carried out this report that allows us to make a diagnosis of the situation to specify challenges. This is an important starting point, since the assessments collected provide a global vision, at a financial level, that allows us to integrate these results in all areas of society, as well as generate knowledge ," stated the president of the Provincial Council. who, in addition, has pointed out that the document not only analyses the strong points of the Alicante industry , but also those aspects and sections " in which we can optimise resources to increase results ."

 

As confirmed by the provincial official, “ we are a province full of a demanding professional sector made up of self-employed workers, entrepreneurs, small, medium and large companies and many jobs depend on our industry, as well as a good part of our Gross Domestic Product ” , which is why it has recognised that coordination between administrations is essential when it comes to “ incentivizing and supporting our productive sectors with the purpose of carrying out actions that generate active growth dynamics .”

 

In his speech, Toni Pérez conveyed to the more than fifty businessmen, mayors and authorities present at the event that recognising the levers of growth on which the strategies must pivot in coordination is essential to continue on the path of progress.

 

For this reason, he has emphasised that the province has a different structure from practically all of the rest of Spain. “ Alicante has a different and varied business fabric with key sectors that act as a shuttle .” As she explained in detail, “ each of our regions has a different potential, all of them complementary and highly competitive .”

 

“ Diversification and potential are key in a very unique territory, where we want the relevance and weight of the industrial sector to improve. We must also bet on small companies that relocate in search of better locations and economies ,” he assured, while advocating immersion in the process of refounding the European industry, “ in that digital green transition where we have to try, through public-private collaboration and private-private collaboration, so that no one is left behind .”

To this end, it has maintained that sustainability is a good model and example from its triple dimension : environmental, economic and social .

 

Finally, the president has valued the weight of the family business, which is the “ great strength of this province ”, and has maintained that with this real diagnosis “ we can guide policies that take a 180 degree turn, with vision, action and risk, to apply efforts in innovation, digitalisation and sustainability and reach out to the creation of employment and well-being .

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The INECA report is structured into four thematic blocks that address productivity analysis , digitalization , the impact of the European green industrial plan and a synthesis of results and proposals for strategic actions. As stated in the treaty, the province of Alicante is a leader in different areas of the industrial sector, showing better values ​​than the Spanish average in the manufacturing of computer products , metallurgy , transport materials , graphic arts and reproduction , furniture manufacturing or metal products , among others, while the weight of other manufacturing industries must be reinforced.

 

This laborious work provides a key x-ray of the sector and its evolution in recent decades , as well as proposals to help improve the main socioeconomic indicators of the province.

 

Some of the priority incentives and ideas proposed are to reduce unemployment in this sector and increase labor productivity , which is an indicator of the value and wealth of a company; accelerate the creation of new industrial spaces ; promote the development of a machinery renewal plan , in addition to reviewing moratoriums on regulations that increase demands and become a brake for SMEs and specific incentive plans. The ultimate goal is to improve productivity, technological commitment, training , as well as business mergers of specific clusters to increase business size.

 

For his part, the president of INECA has detailed that this “ complete study poses a series of challenges not only for the administrations, but for businessmen, who must be supported with public actions to achieve those positions that we propose .” As stated, the Alicante Provincial Council agreed to collaborate in the execution of this study because, “ for this institution, as well as for the Generalitat chaired by Carlos Mazón, the province of Alicante is either an industry or it is not and that is the reason for be that motivated the report .”

 

Furthermore, he has recognized that in said proposal one of the requests was to be critical , as well as to contribute ideas and constructive aspects to involve the administrations in the roadmap designed in order to recover positions . “ INECA remains faithful to its founding objectives of analyzing the province with rigor and with data. Our common purpose is to energise the Alicante economy and accelerate the transformation process through competitiveness, combination and variety of activities and services that act as a driving force ,” Amirola stated.

 

The director of Corporate Responsibility of ACTIU, Carmen Berbegal , explained that this company was created by her father more than 50 years ago and has assured that “ we have always been an industry, because the industry is opportunity, health, work, development, career. People also want to live in inland areas and we have to structure cities and towns, something that is achieved with industry .”