The stores in the province of Artemisa ran out of detergent due to a stoppage in the production of the Suchel joint venture due to the transfer of its machinery, according to a note published on Sunday. by the official newspaper The Artemisian.
The problem dates back to December, when the company stopped its activity to move to a new plant in the Mariel Special Development Zone (ZEDM), Alberto Meireles González, director of the Caribe Store Chain in the province, told the newspaper.
Suchel TBV has been granted permits to operate in the ZEDM for four years, for 30 years. However, the deputy general manager of the company, Isabel Martínez Ramírez, confirmed in December to Granma that they could not complete the assembly of your machinery due to complications in importing the equipment during the toughest months of the pandemic.
According to Meireles González, the company was engaged in packaging the product in a provisional facility and announced that it would start producing powder and liquid detergent in mid-January. However, the director of the chain acknowledged that there is no set date for when the first delivery will be available to consumers.
Meanwhile, the shortage is supplied with imported detergent. According to Meireles González, this Saturday a container with Brisas powder detergent entered the island
Meanwhile, the shortage is supplied with imported detergent. According to Meireles González, this Saturday a container with Brisas powder detergent entered the island, which will begin to be distributed in stores in pesos in the province starting this Tuesday.
For his part, Danilo Pozo Hernández, manager of Cimex Artemisa, assured that there is no scheduled date for when the freely convertible currency (MLC) stores will have the product in inventory.
the note of The Artemiseño, Aimed at elucidating the “concern” of Cuban families in the face of the shortage of the product, it collected a shower of claims and complaints from readers, who blame the mismanagement of the plants while the assortment is maintained in the informal market. “In the CUP stores there have not been since Machado, but on the street they do not stop selling at excessive prices,” Internet user Edenis Salgado responded to the newspaper’s publication.
In this way, the promise of Suchel TBV SA, a company formed by the Cuban state company Industrias Nexus SA and the Vietnamese company Thai Binh Detergent Joint-Stock Company, to become the most important supplier of detergent on the Island and substitute imports.
Once installed in the ZEDM, as detailed when its creation was announced in 2018, the plant would have a capacity to produce 50,000 tons per year for domestic and industrial use, enough to meet 90% of the purchases made by Cuba in the domestic market.
in the note of Granma, The executive promised that the annual production capacity would be 70,000 tons of powder detergent and 20,000 tons of liquid. With this volume “we think that we will be able to cover the demand, although not immediately, because the process of preparing and training the personnel must begin,” Martínez Ramírez said at the time.
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