HAVANA, May 4 (Reuters) - Cuba is building six sugar mills for countries
participating in a Venezuelan-led cooperation program called the
Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA), the official trade union
weekly Trabajadores said on Monday.
Reporting from the heart of he country's machine-building industry in
Villa Clara province, the paper said some of the mills would be fitted
to produce ethanol and the industry was also supplying spare parts for
ALBA countries.
"Six mills are being built, and some will be fitted with technology to
convert them to ethanol producers," the paper said.
ALBA, begun by Venezuela and Cuba, also includes Bolivia, Honduras,
Nicaragua and Dominica, but the article did not say where the mills will
be located.
The contract is a boom for Cuba's machine-building industry, which built
eight sugar mills for domestic use between 1965 and 1985, and has seen
supply contracts for the domestic sugar industry dwindle as it is downsized.
Since the decade began Cuba has closed some 90 mills, all built before
the 1959 revolution.
Some of the closed mills and parts were sold to Venezuela. (Reporting by
Marc Frank; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)
My Cuba Thoughts (6 May 2009)
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