IN PHOTO • According to the president of the FDMC, Franck Bernigaud, the increase in the price of building materials in 2021 is around +10% cumulatively for the second consecutive year.[Zepros Négoce] Inflation, even "stagflation", shortages and risks of "overheating" in trading, postponement of the REP Building...: during its annual lunch-debate, the Federation of construction materials distributors (FDMC) called the sector to remain united in a climate of recovery that is still fragile.After the desire, the pleasure of getting together!It had been two years since traders and supplier manufacturers had met face to face to attend the traditional annual luncheon organized by the FDMC.Last November 17 in Paris, they were more than 200 invited to participate.“How long has been the time!“, Hammered Franck Bernigaud, the president of the federation, evoking “a pandemic […] whose effects seem, alas, far from fading”.Moreover, "the role of intermediary bodies", "the proximity" and the "relay role" of all construction industry players, their "confidence" or even the "adaptability" and the "ability to bounce back" of traders will have made it possible to "avoid a catastrophic scenario".By benefiting from a recovery from the end of the crisis and the good momentum at the end of 2020, distributors only posted "a decline of almost -3%", reminded Franck Bernigaud, before "beginning a unexpected increase in their activity.Mentioning credit insurance in a word during this annual lunch, the president of the FDMC was also heard on November 18 at the National Assembly on this file;especially since the profession, which has demonstrated the "solidity" of its companies, "needs guides, partners" in a context of "overheating" in trading for several months: logistical difficulties, scarcity of materials raw materials and rising costs, delivery times "which keep getting longer".According to Franck Bernigaud recalls that “unprecedented price increases” among distributors have contributed to “boosting their turnover, up around +10% compared to 2020 and almost + 7% compared to 2019”.If the trade is forced to pass on all these increases "identically" because of its low margins, it continues to play its role of stockist.Today, the “rare” stock-outs essentially only concern OSBs.However, the FDMC insists that the current context (inflation, supply problems) must not “give rise to any drift”.With the other construction federations, it participates in the establishment of a charter of good practices.With an “intra-sector solidarity objective”.At a time when the first commercial negotiations between traders and suppliers are beginning, it also warns to “respect the general conditions of sale and purchase”.For Franck Bernigaud, it is clear that the dialogue with the upstream remains “indispensable”.Another subject of concern for the traders: “What to think of the establishment by forceps and forced march of a waste collection channel based on distributors and supposed to come into force in a little over a month?“Questioned Franck Bernigaud.Supposed to enter into force on January 1, 2022, the system, the overall cost of which is estimated at €2.7 billion, has just been postponed for one year by the government.On November 17, the Ministry for the Ecological Transition indeed indicated that “the year 2022 will be used so that approved eco-organizations can establish agreements with communities and private actors […] in order to be able to initiate as many no later than January 1, 2023 financial support”.In addition, the government must publish “at the latest” the decree setting the rules and principles of this new REP sector for construction products and materials in the building sector (PMCB).If the future application text sent to the Council of State still raises many questions (real funding by eco-organizations until 2026, “visible fee” project that can be passed on to the entire sector, integration of asbestos maintained in PMCBs, etc.), the FDMC has nevertheless obtained flexibility and "advances": the obligation to collect construction waste subject to EPR for points of sale whose turnover threshold is greater than €5 million (vs. €1m previously);the number of collection points increases from 3,000 to 4,000 sites by integrating the GSBs.S. Vigliandi→ Via Constructys, which brings together Capeb, FFB, FNTP and the FDMC, which represents more than 85,000 employees, this OPCO has signed an agreement with the Ministry of National Education and Higher Education.The agreement will enter its operational phase in 2022.→ Switch voted and recorded in AG FDMC from the collective agreement for the timber trade to that for the materials trade.→ In place for a year, the Construction Materials Trade Observatory now has an accessible platform.The digital content strategy agencyThe daily newsletter to know everything about building news