Every week, since the beginning of containment, the National Union of Adhesive Label Manufacturers (UNFEA) has been sending a questionnaire to its manufacturing members on their activities with the coronavirus crisis. These answers give a first appreciation of the production of adhesive labels. However, these figures should be taken with caution, as only 28 producers (out of the hundred or so manufacturer members) have taken part in the question-and-answer game since 17 March.
For the fifth week of containment (April 13 to 19), producers are recording the presence of their employees in the workplace in the order of 80% (compared to 64% at the lowest rate in week two). Since the beginning of the confinement, the conventional (i.e., not including telework) rate has been the highest.
For 50% of the respondents, the absence of employees is negligible on production, but remains impacting for 29% others. In the last three weeks, no respondent felt that it was still very impactful, compared to 16 and 19 per cent in week 1 and week 2 respectively.
And the machine load is around 70 % The rate is stable over the entire containment period, but with very wide disparities depending on the manufacturer (ranging in week 1 from 15 to 150% and in week 5 from 10 to 100%).
On the issue of supply the situation seems pick up . While it is still difficult this week for 64% of respondents, it was 93% in the previous week. And it's easy for 32% of manufacturers (up from 7% in week 4).
Sending the label boxes to customers by courier or carrier is easy for 75% of companies (roughly stable over the period), difficult for 25% (also stable), but never impossible (0%).
The vast majority of respondents, 79 per cent, felt that the activity of their customers for this fifth week, dwindling The results were normal for 18% and nil for 4% (no really significant change over the five weeks).
43 % of respondents found a extended payment terms from their clients.
Half of the companies are in partial operation . And about one-third used BPI for a government-guaranteed loan for cash flow.
Nearly 90 % of business leaders intend to equip their employees with protective masks coming soon and about half of them plan to give different masks for different positions.
