Stocks on imports: companies stop production due to lack of inputs

A forest-industrial entrepreneur from Misiones presented an appeal for protection before the Federal Court so that the Central Bank releases the dollars it needs import the supplies needed to keep the plant running industrial.

Román Queiroz, who is also president of the Argentine Federation of the Wood Industry and Related Industries (FAIMA) agreed with the trade unions to anticipate the holidays for 270 workers to try to unblock the situation. The entrepreneur owns Coama South America, a company with more than 50 years that produces wooden sheets and plywood panels in Eldorado,

The new restrictions imposed by the national government to try to stop the outflow of dollars have a full impact on some companies they no longer rule out the possibility of suspending and even firing employees.

Queiroz admitted that he has already made a presentation before the federal judge of Eldorado, Miguel Ángel Guerrero, to prove unlock access to foreign currency that allows him to produce again.

If dollars can be found to bring the resin that we use for gluing the sheetsIn a week the product is in the countryside, ”he said.

The businessman went to Buenos Aires to try to solve the problem. Queiroz had scheduled a meeting with the president of the Central Bank, and also with the Minister of Productive Development, Daniel Scioli. The governor of Misiones, Oscar Herrera Ahuad, will accompany him in the negotiations.

“The situation is very worrying and with a lot of uncertainty. There are already many industries that are unable to import inputs for production and therefore, they are stopping. One of these industries is mine, which stops with 270 people, because we can’t import resin and that means we can’t produce, “said the leader and entrepreneur, who knew how to get good harmony with Kirchnerism.

“We have granted early leave to workers, but if the problem is not solved in fifteen days, suspensions will come“He added. And if the restrictions on imports deepen, layoffs would occur.

The entrepreneur admitted itit has always been a problem to produce in Argentina. First there was no fuel, then they cut the electricity and now there are no dollars. These are the problems we are going through in our country and unfortunately we are used to it ”.

Queiroz said the domestic market it provides only 40% of the resins used in the forestry industry for bonding wooden slabs.

“There is only one factory in the country and in the next few days it will start to have problems also because it is not even able to import the necessary inputs to produce the resin which is phenol, a derivative of petroleum,” he said.

But not only the forestry company Queiroz has supply problems. FAIMA leader said that “six factories are experiencing this critical situation across the country“.

In this sense, he listed several signatures of Mendoza which cannot impregnate the poles due to the impossibility of importing the necessary salts. It’s inside Santa Fe there are furniture factories that cannot produce before inability to bring the special fabrics needed for upholstery.

“We did not imagine reaching this situation, we knew there was a shortage of foreign currency but We did not imagine that the manufacturing sector would have restrictions on production and give work », he added worriedly.

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