The only operational sugar factory in Spain, forced to stop due to the transport strike due to lack of raw material

Published 2022년 3월 17일

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A transport strike in Spain has led to the halt of the country's only operational sugar factory in Jerez de la Frontera, owned by Azucarera, due to a lack of raw materials. The factory, which refines raw cane sugar to supply the national market, will incur significant costs to shut down. The strike is also impacting the supply of sugar to Azucarera's customers, despite efforts to ensure crude oil supply and sugar service. The factory employs nearly 200 people and is the only sugar factory in Spain that operates year-round, processing beet and refining raw cane sugar.

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The transport strike has forced the only operational sugar factory in Spain to stop, the one that Azucarera has in Jerez de la Frontera and in which, after the beet campaign, raw cane sugar is refined to supply the national market, which has a deficit in production. beet sugar production. The factory has decided to stop production this Thursday the 17th due to the impossibility of continuing with normal activity due to lack of raw material, having worked at low speed in recent days to avoid the stoppage. Throughout today, the last 450 tons remaining in the facilities will be refined, when in a normal day of activity more than 1,600 tons are refined. This closure will entail a high cost for the company due to the complexity involved in shutting down a factory of this type. In addition, this transport strike is already seriously affecting the supply of sugar to Azucarera's customers. Azucarera, together with the local authorities and the security forces, has tried by all means to ...

Source: Agroinformacion