Most of these investments will be allocated to new projects, and they will be directed towards achieving an output increase, technology modernization or update and improving the quality of the products and the processes, as main objectives.
In order to make it, companies consider new machinery acquisition as the main investment, among others.
Finally, we consider it interesting to highlight that 40% of the companies plan an increase in the use of the installed capacity. The increasing expectations remain at a high level.
Taking into account the level of average use of the installed capacity in 2007 was 80%; this fact reflects the implementation of a sustained investment process.