Dear raw materials: "30 thousand Sardinian companies at risk"
"A very difficult moment, companies are collapsing"
The conflict between Russia and Ukraine and the consequent increases in the prices of raw materials, as well as gas, oil and aluminum, will also have repercussions in Sardinia and are already putting more than 30 thousand companies on the island with 95 thousand employees under pressure.
The alarm is raised by the Research Office of Confartigianato Imprese Sardegna.
In the front lines of the price war and war-torn markets, explains the association, "almost two-fifths (37.6%) of the employed in the Sardinian production system are included: these are 30,175 companies, almost all with less than 50 employees (99.6%), with 94,920 employees, over four fifths (83%) employed in micro and small enterprises (MPI) ".
Considering the provinces, there is a higher involvement of the production system in the sectors most under stress due to the ongoing conflict in Nuoro with 42% of employees involved in frontline companies, Sassari with 41% and South Sardinia with 40. , 4%. In particular, these are the sectors that have the greatest energy intensity: from metallurgy to petrochemicals, from paper to glass, from ceramics to transport.
The shortages of raw materials from Russia and Ukraine, associated with rising costs of supplies, involve companies in the food, metals and construction sectors, a perimeter in which 15,477 MPI operate with 41,189 employees. "Companies are collapsing because they did not expect this further increase in fixed costs in terms of energy and gas: some are considering stopping production because it is better to stop rather than work at a loss - underlines Maria Amelia Lai, president of Confartigianato Sardegna - The moment is very difficult, the expensive fuel, the increase in bill costs, the difficulty in finding and increasing the cost of raw materials, the effects on our economy of the sanctions imposed on Russia, is added an extremely worrying element: the climate of confidence that entrepreneurs had managed to recover, after two years of pandemic in which they did everything possible to withstand the shock wave of the crisis, is waning. "
(Unioneonline / ss)
