The Las Palmas employers' association abstained from voting in the Puertos Canarios council when defending the industrial interest of the cement production business at the Masaveu Corporation plant in El Pajar, San Bartolomé de Tirajana. The pressure group of which the cement company is a member, Asinca, and the Las Palmas Association of Construction Businessmen (AEC) have criticised the decision to remove the legal protection of the cement plant's premises so that the dock located there can be used for tourism. However, they have not said anything to question the role of the Las Palmas employers' association, the CCE. The AEC has urged the parties, the Government and the Masaveu Corporation, to reach an agreement.
The Canary Islands Industrial Association has pointed out that "this decision puts the future of a strategic industry for the islands at risk, on which more than 600 families depend." It does not comment on the role of its business representatives and adds that "from our association, we want to convey our full support to CEISA, a leading company in the Canary Islands industrial fabric, which offers stable and high-quality jobs, contributing to improving and increasing the economic and social welfare levels of our islands and for this reason, we consider it strategic and fundamental in a community with significant rates of poverty and unemployment."
The Association of Businessmen, Builders and Developers of the province of Las Palmas (AECP) has expressed its concern about the "possible closure" of the CEISA cement plant due to its impact on what could be "shortages and increased prices of cement, delays in construction and the disappearance of the scarce" industrial presence of the sector in the Canary Islands. Construction businessmen are expressing their concern about the "possible closure" of CEISA in Gran Canaria. For the AECP "given this situation, which could make the execution of infrastructure or housing works difficult, and which could have an impact on a probable increase in the price of this raw material, the employers' association makes public its hope that Ceisa and the regional government "finally reach an agreement satisfactory for all parties involved, including the construction sector."
