Bundesverband Baustoffe – Steine und Erden e.V. (BBS)
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The German Building Materials Association (BBS) represents the business and industrial interests of 19 sub-sectors and around 4,000 companies with a total of 130,000 employees in Germany. The building materials industry generates sales revenue of around 25 billion Euro and extracts 600 million tons of mineral raw materials per year. With its modern production processes and products, this industry makes a significant contribution to a sustainable economic development.
To protect jobs, the building materials industry needs a competitive business environment. This includes secure access to domestic raw materials as well as future-oriented energy and climate policies that strengthen Germany as an industrial location. Furthermore, the BBS advocates better investment incentives in the housing construction sector and the development and modernization of infrastructure in line with actual needs.
The BBS stands for a successful dialog on environmental issues between industry, environmental NGOs and trade unions. For example, in 2004 it issued a joint declaration together with the German environmental protection organization NABU as well as with the trade unions for Building-Agriculture-Environment and for Mining, Chemical, Energy.
