No gas, no glass. Basically very simple.
If an industry is dependent on gas and also ranks among the highest gas consumers, then it is the glass industry.
Whether glass bottles or flat glass. Right after that come the brickworks and then the cement plants.
Steel of course as well.
I can report that hardly anyone still gives binding delivery commitments or price guarantees. Delivery prices usually apply for 24-72 hours. Then they are renegotiated. Often net price surcharges for certain periods are charged in addition to the manufacturers' normal price increases.
With us, there will be fixed surcharges again from 01.07. These will then apply until the end of August and at the beginning of September they will either be dropped or increased again. And depending on the product, these surcharges vary in amount.
Delivery times are a catastrophe. In my area we now expect some product groups to be available from September 2023 to June 2024. Whether it will actually be delivered, however, no one can say today.
The executing companies will also struggle with this. Material and machines are not available. The used market is also empty. It has been swept clean. Whether plastering machines, cranes, trucks or excavators. Spare parts are also no longer fully available.
We are sliding from one problem to the next, from one crisis to another.
Doesn't matter, we'll show Putin where Barthel gets his cider.