A new factory of plastic containers to fill 40 boxes of 250 and 500 millimeters per minute is about to start. This is part of the investment program carried out with a cost of $15,000,000 USD in the Enterprise Base Unit (UBE) Industrial Ceballos in Ciego de Avila province.
This industry elaborates ketchup and other derivates from tomato, orange, pineapple, mango and guava nectars which are sold in small plastic containers to make them more accessible to the client.
The food is packed in doypack boxes of all those products in need for a better useful life. They also have a good presentation; they are light, and easy to transport and stock.
Jose Ricardo Conde Perez, production director of the entity reported to the press on the benefits of the new factory for the treatment of water to increase the quantity of the liquid, eliminates calcium, magnesium and minerals, which help those products elaborated in that industry, be more natural, so they can be exported and distributed to the domestic market.
He also informed on the improvements of the cold stores to help in a better ripening process and preservation of the fruits, without losing their natural flavour, also preventing the leaking of freezing and save energy too.
He also noted the investment program will continue in 2014 and highlighted the volumes of tomato and mango that had been processed this year, which have reached 13,000 and 5,000 tones respectively.
