(ANSA) - ROME, 11 JAN - The energy shock is a problem for all supply chains, the risk we run, in addition to the production block that is already happening in some sectors, is that the companies move production elsewhere ", warns the vice president of Confindustria for supply chains and medium-sized enterprises, Maurizio Marchesini, underlining the alarm with an updated estimate, upwards, on the 2022 'bill': "The cost of energy for companies in 2019 was 8 billion, in 2021 it was 20 billion and the forecast for 2022 is 37 billion "." The Government should act now ", it is" a perfect storm ", underlines the association of industrialists.
"The world of ceramics, paper and the steel industry are stopping their plants or producing at very low rates", warns Marchesini, who highlights Confindustria's latest estimate and underlines: "It is an absolutely unsustainable level for our companies, so The interventions implemented so far by the Government have not invested 70% of SMEs, so we need to tackle the problem through immediate actions and with a medium-long term strategy ".
"It is certainly necessary - he continues - that the competent ministries open a table to which we hope to be summoned to make our contribution because there are a series of interventions that can be implemented. This is a perfect storm for the business world and is only an anticipation of what will happen with the ecological transition ".
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