Spanish textile manufacturers want to bring production back home
19/11/2013
In the 1970s, the industry employed 400,000 people across Spain; the figure today is 150,000.
With unemployment one of the government’s biggest headaches (the current rate is above 25%), textile firms believe government funding ought to become available to help them reverse, to some degree, outsourcing of textile production.
Manufacturers are asking the government to set up a funding programme to help them increase their domestic production.
“What this is about,” said Ángel Asensio, president of the Fedecon industry association in recent comments to Spanish media, “is to start producing here again part of the output that left these shores. In particular, we want to bring back the production of specialist and high-quality goods.”
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