Can a favorable international market boost the Uruguayan refrigeration industry?

The refrigeration industry is going through a complex and heterogeneous moment that affects companies in the sector in diverse ways, but is characterized by total closures, layoffs, intermittent operation, and low activity; can this difficult present change based on international conditions? 2025 was an exceptional year for meat, and this could be observed in the record revenues in the exports of this product—the main one in Uruguay's export basket—which, in turn, explained much of the great performance of the placements last year. The main reason behind this was the good conditions of the international market, with a progressive increase in prices. The most striking thing about these important results is that they occurred parallel to a complex situation in the meat sector at the local level, in which problems in some specific refrigerators stood out: Lorsinal, Rosario, Somicar, Florida were some of the names that were repeated throughout the months for stoppages in activity, ...