Market for construction material products in Sweden. Keyfigures 2001 (SEK)

• Total turnover 110 billion• Export approx 50 billion• Import approx 23 billion• Companies, producers 3 350 st• Numb of people empl. approx 60.000 st• Comp. in total, wholesalers, retailers 6.000 st• Turnover / company approx 32 billion• Turnover / employed approx 1,8 billion

EB 03/049F

IB – Building Material Producers Association of Sweden

•Established in 1967•One of 48 sector and employer associations of Confederation of Swedish Enterprise, with today

57 000 small and medium-sized member companies.•Lobbying, mainly in overall policy issues, EU, conditions for business, economic commercial policy, environment policy, etc •Members today, big and mostly foreign owned companies•Instead of a central organization

Member Companies of the Swedish Building Material Producers Association ( IB)

• Cementa AB

• Eurotak AB

• Formica PSM AB

• Gyproc AB

• Heidelberg Cement Northern Europe AB

• Icopal AB

Member Companies of the Swedish Building Material Producers Association (IB)

• Isola-Platon AB

• Knauf Danogips GmbH

• Lafarge Tekkin AB

• Norgips Svenska AB

• Optiroc AB

• Paroc AB

Member Companies of the Swedish Building Material Producers Association (IB )

• Plastmo AB

• Saint-Gobain Isover AB

• Thermisol Sweden AB

• Trelleborg Building Systems AB

• Lindab Profil AB

BYSAM – Cooperation between various building material producers organizations in Sweden

• The Swedish Precast Concrete Federation

• Swedish Building Material Producers Association

• Masonry and Rendering Information

• The Plastics and Chemicals Federation

BYSAM – Cooperation between various building material producers organizations in Sweden

• National Association of the Swedish Joinery Factories

• Swedish Ready Mixed Concrete Association

• The Swedish Wood Association including Wooden House Manufacturers within the Swedish Forest Industries Federation

• Swedisol – the Swedish Mineral Wool Association

BYSAM – Cooperation between various building material producers organizations in Sweden

• Federation of Swedish Heating Water and Sanitation Equipment Manufacturers

• The Swedish Paint and Printing Ink Makers Association

• The Swedish Flat Glass Association

• The Swedish Association of Air Handling Industries

Activities / Priorities

• The Swedish marketsituation for the building

sector, specifically Housing, still very low

• Increased cost for construction and building products according to politicans and media

• Competition, competition-rules

• Environment, new requirement from customers, society, dangerous substances, EICP(BPD), Evaluations, etc

• CPD and European harmonization and integration, standardization, CE_marking,internal market issues, etc

Activities / Priorities

• National legislation, new bills and proposals• Quality, general conditions, sector and business

agreements /contracts, guarantees 2 or 10 years ?• Reasearch an Development, where common

mutual interest, building process, etc, BIC• e-Business, strategy, market portals /sites, etc• Official Gov reports for consideration , etc

Reputation Campaign 2003-2006

• To increase the knowledge and the reputation of the building material industry in Sweden for politicans, media and the ordinarie people.

• Important sector for swedish economy, growth, employment and good posibilities to expand at home and abroad in developing a ”new” and promising construction industry sector.

• Competitive and a value added to reasonable costs • Innovative, modern, R&D, more of systems,

functions, prefabrication, moduls, industialization, etc